Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Olden Township, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1600
Youngest recorded age at locality: 470

mindat Locality ID: 6441
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-6441.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Olden Township, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Long Lake Zinc Mine (Richardson Zinc Mine; Lynx Mine)
Parham Molybdenite Pit
Parham Occurrence

Latitude: 44°41'34"N
Longitude: 76°44'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.692777777778,-76.746944444444

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.

Allanite	Aragonite	Bastnäsite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Epidote	Humite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None
Pyrite	Pyroxene	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Vesuvianite

Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Aragonite ()*	Bastnäsite-(Ce) ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chondrodite ()*	Diopside ()*	Ferriallanite-(Ce) ()*	Galena ()*	Hydrocerussite ()*
Hydrozincite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Vesuvianite ()*

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: Al C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H Mg Mo Na O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Aragonite Bastnäsite Calcite Chalcopyrite Epidote Humite Molybdenite Nickeline None
Pyrite Pyroxene Rocksalt Sphalerite Vesuvianite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	31910	706
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1600	470	1	31908	3250
Bastnäsite-(Ce) ()*	Bastnäsite	Ce(CO₃)F			1	31910	304
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1600	470	1	31908	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1600	470	1	31908	27198
Chondrodite ()*	Humite	Mg₅(SiO₄)₂F₂	1600	470	1	31908	285
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1600	470	1	31908	4135
Ferriallanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Fe³⁺AlFe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	31910	28
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1600	470	1	31908	24243
Hydrocerussite ()*	None	Pb₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1600	470	1	31908	201
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1600	470	1	31908	1066
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1600	470	2	31908,31909	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1600	470	1	31908	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1600	470	1	31908	9056
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1600	470	1	31908	21482
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1600	470	1	31908	1395

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	NLDNRGS16_27_0001	515	470	492.5 ± 22.5	U-Pb	host rock		zircon				Zircon			14925	Long Lake Zinc Mine (Richardson Zinc Mine; Lynx Mine), Olden Township, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada	Long Lake Mine	Hinchey (2016)		NLDNRGS16_27
	sedznpb-00103	1600	1000	Mesoproterozoic											14925	Long Lake Zinc Mine (Richardson Zinc Mine; Lynx Mine), Olden Township, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada	Long Lake	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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