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Locality Name:
No.1 Shaft (Port Radium Mine), Eldorado Mine, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1860
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1450

mindat Locality ID: 243732
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-243732.html

Tectonic Settings: Continental Arc

Total number of sublocalities beneath "No.1 Shaft (Port Radium Mine), Eldorado Mine, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 66°5'8"N
Longitude: 118°2'17"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 66.085555555556,-118.03805555556
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: Ag As Bi Co Cu Fe H Mn Mo Ni O Pb S Sb Si Te U Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag As Bi Co Cu Fe H Mn Mo Ni O Pb S Sb Si Te U Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteArsenicArsenopyriteChalcopyriteChalcostibiteCobaltiteCorundumCovelliteCubaniteFluorite
JalpaiteLöllingiteMolybdeniteNickelineNoneNot in a structural groupPerovskitePyriteQuartzRocksalt
RutileSkutteruditeSphaleriteSpinelStanniteTetrahedriteVivianiteWurtzite

36 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Algodonite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Bismuth  (*)Bornite  (*)
Chalcocite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chalcostibite  (*)Cobaltite  (*)Covellite  (*)
Cubanite  (*)Erythrite  (*)Famatinite  (*)Freibergite  (*)Galena  (*)
Glaucodot  (*)Hematite  (*)Hessite  (*)Jalpaite  (*)Löllingite  (*)
Magnetite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Nickeline  (*)Nickelskutterudite  (*)Gersdorffite-Pa3  (*)
Polydymite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrolusite  (*)Quartz  (*)Rammelsbergite  (*)
Safflorite  (*)Skutterudite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Stromeyerite  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Uraninite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S1860145002793
Algodonite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu1-xAsx (x ≈ 0.15)18601450041
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS1860145009052
Bismuth  (*)ArsenicBi1860145001966
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS41860145005516
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S1860145005707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS218601450027198
Chalcostibite  (*)ChalcostibiteCuSbS2186014500162
Cobaltite  (*)CobaltiteCoAsS186014500966
Covellite  (*)CovelliteCuS1860145004165
Cubanite  (*)Cubanite WurtziteCuFe2S3186014500802
Erythrite  (*)VivianiteCo3(AsO4)2·8H2O186014500814
Famatinite  (*)Stannite SphaleriteCu3SbS4186014500163
Freibergite  (*)TetrahedriteAg6[Cu4Fe2]Sb4S12186014500663
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS18601450024243
Glaucodot  (*)Arsenopyrite(Co0.5Fe0.5)AsS186014500131
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O318601450014640
Hessite  (*)NoneAg2Te186014500804
Jalpaite  (*)JalpaiteAg3CuS2186014500116
Löllingite  (*)LöllingiteFeAs2186014500762
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O418601450014899
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS21860145005800
Nickeline  (*)NickelineNiAs186014500633
Nickelskutterudite  (*)Skutterudite Perovskite(Ni,Co,Fe)As3186014500176
Gersdorffite-Pa3  (*)PyriteNiAsS186014500767
Polydymite  (*)SpinelNi2+Ni3+2S4186014500131
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS218601450039462
Pyrolusite  (*)RutileMnO21860145003106
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO218601450061156
Rammelsbergite  (*)LöllingiteNiAs2186014500233
Safflorite  (*)LöllingiteCoAs2186014500317
Skutterudite  (*)Skutterudite PerovskiteCoAs3186014500531
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS18601450021482
Stromeyerite  (*)NoneCuAgS186014500332
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S131860145005317
Uraninite  (*)FluoriteUO21860145002718


3 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
Emily00025918601860  age of Great Bear batholith   Yes  518Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, CanadaGreat Bear BatholithKissin (1993) GC19_113age of Great Bear batholith
Emily00026015001500  age of oreveins at Great Bear batholith   Yes  518Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, CanadaGreat Bear BatholithKissin (1993) GC19_113age of oreveins at Great Bear batholith
Kristen00212816501450  age of pitchblende-Co, Ni aresenide-silver-Fe, Cu, Ag, Bi, Zn, Pb sulfide mineralization   Yes  519Eldorado Mine, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, CanadaEldorado MineRobinson and Morton (1971)10.1139/e72-013CJES9_158 

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