Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Vindfall, Sandviken, Gävleborg County, Sweden

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1800
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1700

mindat Locality ID: 10745
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-10745.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Vindfall, Sandviken, Gävleborg County, Sweden": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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	Arsenic	Bournonite	Copper	Covellite	Cubanite	Löllingite	Marcasite	None
Polybasite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Acanthite ()*	Antimony ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bournonite ()*	Costibite ()*
Covellite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Dyscrasite ()*	Freibergite ()*	Hessite ()*
Mackinawite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Mckinstryite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Silver ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Wittichenite ()*

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 Bi Co Cu Fe Ni Pb S Sb Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag As Bi Co Cu Fe Ni Pb S Sb Te Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allargentum Arsenic Bournonite Copper Covellite Cubanite Löllingite Marcasite None
Polybasite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1800	1700	2793
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	1800	1700	363
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1800	1700	1966
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1800	1700	1089
Costibite ()*	Löllingite	CoSbS	1800	1700	19
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1800	1700	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1800	1700	802
Dyscrasite ()*	Allargentum	Ag_3+xSb_1-x (x ≈ 0.2)	1800	1700	180
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	1800	1700	663
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	1800	1700	804
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1800	1700	451
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1800	1700	5674
Mckinstryite ()*	None	Ag₅Cu₃S₄	1800	1700	51
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	1800	1700	716
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1800	1700	5186
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1800	1700	5317
Wittichenite ()*	None	Cu₃BiS₃	1800	1700	297

1 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
	Kristen002452	1800	1700			ductile shear age					Yes				24585	Sandviken, Gävleborg County, Sweden	Rattvik-Sandviken Shear Zone	Tirén and Beckholmen (1990)	10.1080/11035899009453195`	GFSF112_197

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...