Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Caijiaying Mine, Zhangbei Co., Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China

mindat Locality ID: 64358
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-64358.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Caijiaying Mine, Zhangbei Co., Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 41°26'15"N
Longitude: 115°28'10"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.4375,115.46944444444

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	Amphibole	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite
Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Ilvaite	Kobellite	Lillianite	Marcasite	Mica
Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*
Bismuth ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chamosite ()*
Clinochlore ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*
Galenobismutite ()*	Gold ()*	Hedenbergite ()*	Hematite ()*	Heyrovskýite ()*
Ilvaite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Tremolite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Sb Si Zn

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amphibole Arsenic Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite
Copper Corundum Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Ilvaite Kobellite Lillianite Marcasite Mica
Molybdenite Nickeline None Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

36 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1966
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Chamosite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Fe²⁺,Mg,Al,Fe³⁺)₆(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH,O)₈	577
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1756
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9617
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Galenobismutite ()*	Kobellite	PbBi₂S₄	192
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	30554
Hedenbergite ()*	Pyroxene	CaFe²⁺Si₂O₆	741
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	14640
Heyrovskýite ()*	Lillianite	Pb₆Bi₂S₉	66
Ilvaite ()*	Ilvaite	CaFe³⁺Fe²⁺₂O(Si₂O₇)(OH)	197
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	586
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	5317
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2562

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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