Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Highland Bell Mine, Beaverdell, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 471
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-471.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Highland Bell Mine, Beaverdell, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Bell Mine

Latitude: 49°26'5"N
Longitude: 119°3'36"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.434722222222,-119.06

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The 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.

Acanthite	Allargentum	Alunite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper
Corundum	Cubanite	Epidote	Fluorite	Harmotome	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group
Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Argentopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Beudantite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dyscrasite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*
Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Harmotome ()*	Hematite ()*
Laumontite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Silver ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	Sternbergite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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: Ag Al As Au Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Au Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allargentum Alunite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper
Corundum Cubanite Epidote Fluorite Harmotome Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group
Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

30 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	29667	2793
Argentopyrite ()*	Cubanite	AgFe₂S₃	0		53
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	0		9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Beudantite ()*	Alunite	PbFe³⁺₃(AsO₄)(SO₄)(OH)₆	0		413
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0		27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Dyscrasite ()*	Allargentum	Ag_3+xSb_1-x (x ≈ 0.2)	0		180
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	0		663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	0		24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	0		30554
Harmotome ()*	Harmotome	Ba₂(Si₁₂Al₄)O₃₂·12H₂O	0		290
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0		14640
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	0		1271
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	0		5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	0		17380
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	0		716
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	0		1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	29667	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	0		9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	29667	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	0		4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	29667	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	0		2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	0		21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	0		586
Sternbergite ()*	Cubanite	AgFe₂S₃	0		62
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	0		5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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