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Locality Name:
Nemegos Carbonatite, Lackner Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1215
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1146

mindat Locality ID: 227768
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-227768.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nemegos Carbonatite, Lackner Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 47°44'52"N
Longitude: 83°9'54"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.747777777778,-83.165

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.

Amphibole	Calcite	Cancrinite	Clay	Fluorite	None	Olivine	Pyrophyllite	Pyroxene	Spinel

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 F Fe H Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca F Fe H Mg Na O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Calcite Cancrinite Clay Fluorite None Olivine Pyrophyllite Pyroxene Spinel

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Aegirine-augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cancrinite ()*	Fayalite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*	Riebeckite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine-augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Fe³⁺,Mg,Fe²⁺)Si₂O₆	1215	1146	286
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1215	1146	27770
Cancrinite ()*	Cancrinite	(Na,Ca, )₈(Al₆Si₆)O₂₄(CO₃,SO₄)₂·2H₂O	1215	1146	232
Fayalite ()*	Olivine	Fe²⁺₂(SiO₄)	1215	1146	371
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1215	1146	9617
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1215	1146	14899
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1215	1146	771
Riebeckite ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Fe²⁺₃Fe³⁺₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1215	1146	375

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
	ree-00219	1194	1146	1170 ± 24 Ma (K-Ar, horn, pegmatite); 1190 ± 25 Ma (K-Ar, rie, quartz syenite)	K-Ar			hornblende							227768	Nemegos Carbonatite, Lackner Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada	Lackner Lake (Nemegos)	Orris and Grauch (2002)		USGSOFR02_189
	ree-00802	1215	1165	1170 ± 24 Ma (K-Ar, horn, pegmatite); 1190 ± 25 Ma (K-Ar, rie, quartz syenite)	K-Ar										227768	Nemegos Carbonatite, Lackner Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada	Lackner Lake (Nemegos)	Orris and Grauch (2002)		USGSOFR02_189

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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