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:
Hanawa Mine, Kazuno City, Akita, Japan

Oldest recorded age at locality: 23
Youngest recorded age at locality: 5.3

mindat Locality ID: 11734
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-11734.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hanawa Mine, Kazuno City, Akita, Japan": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Motoyama Deposit

Latitude: 40°10'1"N
Longitude: 140°49'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.166944444444,140.83277777778

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.

Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Covellite	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Anhydrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*
Fukuchilite ()*	Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Magnetite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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: Ba Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cu Fe O S Sb Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Chalcopyrite Covellite Gypsum None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Spinel Tetrahedrite

13 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
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	23	5.3	1	73859	1588
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	23	5.3	1	73859	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	23	5.3	0		5516
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	23	5.3	1	73859	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	23	5.3	0		4165
Fukuchilite ()*	Pyrite	Cu₃FeS₈	23	5.3	1	73859	6
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	23	5.3	1	73859	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	23	5.3	1	73859	6890
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	23	5.3	0		14899
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	23	5.3	1	73859	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	23	5.3	0		61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	23	5.3	0		21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	23	5.3	0		5317

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
	vms-00519	23	5.3	Miocene											11734	Hanawa Mine, Kazuno City, Akita, Japan	Hanawa (Aketoshi-Osaki)	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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