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Locality Name:
McMillan West Prospect, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 385
Youngest recorded age at locality: 288

mindat Locality ID: 129059
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-129059.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "McMillan West Prospect, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 36°2'40"N
Longitude: 83°48'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.044444444444,-83.805833333333

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: C O S Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C O S Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CalciteNoneSphalerite

2 IMA Minerals at location:
Smithsonite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)38528802473
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS385288021482



10 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
GCA57_417-00001347347 Rb-SrApparent sphalerite fluid Age (Ma) calculated for leachate-sphalerite pairs (r and l)sphalerite1 YesSphalerite  128963Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USAImmel mine, East TennesseeNakai et al. (1993)10.1016/0016-7037(93)90440-8GCA57_417 
GCA57_417-00003318318 Rb-SrApparent sphalerite fluid Age (Ma) calculated for leachate-sphalerite pairs (r and l)sphalerite2 YesSphalerite  128963Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USAImmel mine, East TennesseeNakai et al. (1993)10.1016/0016-7037(93)90440-8GCA57_417 
GCA57_417-00005349349 Rb-SrApparent sphalerite fluid Age (Ma) calculated for leachate-sphalerite pairs (r and l)sphalerite3 YesSphalerite  128963Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USAImmel mine, East TennesseeNakai et al. (1993)10.1016/0016-7037(93)90440-8GCA57_417 
GCA57_417-00007357357 Rb-SrApparent sphalerite fluid Age (Ma) calculated for leachate-sphalerite pairs (r and l)sphalerite4 YesSphalerite  128963Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USAImmel mine, East TennesseeNakai et al. (1993)10.1016/0016-7037(93)90440-8GCA57_417 
GCA57_417-00009288288 Rb-SrApparent sphalerite fluid Age (Ma) calculated for leachate-sphalerite pairs (r and l)sphaleriteI17L YesSphalerite  128963Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USAImmel mine, East TennesseeNakai et al. (1993)10.1016/0016-7037(93)90440-8GCA57_417 
GCA57_417-00011298298 Rb-SrApparent sphalerite fluid Age (Ma) calculated for leachate-sphalerite pairs (r and l)sphaleriteI17D YesSphalerite  128963Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USAImmel mine, East TennesseeNakai et al. (1993)10.1016/0016-7037(93)90440-8GCA57_417 
GCA57_417-00013309309 Rb-SrApparent sphalerite fluid Age (Ma) calculated for leachate-sphalerite pairs (r and l)sphaleriteI23 YesSphalerite  128963Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USAImmel mine, East TennesseeNakai et al. (1993)10.1016/0016-7037(93)90440-8GCA57_417 
GCA57_417-00015329329 Rb-SrApparent sphalerite fluid Age (Ma) calculated for leachate-sphalerite pairs (r and l)sphaleriteI24-1 YesSphalerite  128963Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USAImmel mine, East TennesseeNakai et al. (1993)10.1016/0016-7037(93)90440-8GCA57_417 
GCA57_417-00017338338 Rb-SrApparent sphalerite fluid Age (Ma) calculated for leachate-sphalerite pairs (r and l)sphaleriteI24-2 YesSphalerite  128963Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USAImmel mine, East TennesseeNakai et al. (1993)10.1016/0016-7037(93)90440-8GCA57_417 
GCA57_417-00019385385 Rb-SrApparent sphalerite fluid Age (Ma) calculated for leachate-sphalerite pairs (r and l)sphaleriteI24-3 YesSphalerite  128963Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Knox Co., Tennessee, USAImmel mine, East TennesseeNakai et al. (1993)10.1016/0016-7037(93)90440-8GCA57_417 


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