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Locality Name:
Qiannan, Guizhou, China

Oldest recorded age at locality: 541
Youngest recorded age at locality: 521

mindat Locality ID: 145085
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-145085.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Qiannan, Guizhou, China": 21
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Dushan Co.
Duyun Co.
Fuquan Co.
Huishui Co.
Luodian Co.
Sandu Co.
Weng'an Co.

Latitude: 26°25'37"N
Longitude: 107°35'19"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 26.426944444444,107.58861111111

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.

Apatite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Fluorite	Marcasite	Mica
None	Not in a structural group	Orpiment	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Wurtzite

Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Greenockite ()*	Hawleyite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Monteponite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orpiment ()*	Otavite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Realgar ()*	Rutile ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Wakabayashilite ()*	Wurtzite ()*	Zincite ()*

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 C Ca Cd Cu F Fe H Hg K Mg O P Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Fluorite Marcasite Mica
None Not in a structural group Orpiment Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Stibnite Wurtzite

30 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
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂			1	38840	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	541	521	2	38828,38840	9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			4	38823,38824,38826,38840	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	541	521	7	38823,38824,38826,38828,38832,38834,38840	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			1	38840	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS			4	38825,38832,38839,38840	2600
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	541	521	5	38823,38824,38826,38828,38830	9895
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F			1	38830	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			1	38840	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	541	521	3	38828,38832,38840	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			1	38840	30554
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	541	521	1	38828	717
Hawleyite ()*	Sphalerite	CdS	541	521	1	38828	62
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	541	521	1	38828	1689
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	541	521	2	38828,38840	5674
Monteponite ()*	None	CdO	541	521	1	38828	5
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			4	38823,38824,38826,38840	17380
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃			2	38832,38840	511
Otavite ()*	Calcite	Cd(CO₃)	541	521	1	38828	25
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	541	521	6	38823,38824,38826,38828,38832,38840	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	541	521	8	38823,38824,38826,38828,38830,38832,38833,38840	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	541	521	3	38828,38832,38840	712
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			1	38840	5614
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	541	521	1	38828	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	541	521	1	38828	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	541	521	2	38828,38840	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	541	521	7	38823,38824,38825,38826,38828,38838,38840	3418
Wakabayashilite ()*	None	(As,Sb)₆As₄S₁₄			1	38832	16
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	541	521	1	38828	372
Zincite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnO	541	521	1	38828	98

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
	sedexmvt-00104	541	521	Early Cambrian		host rock age									52711	Niujiaotang Cd-Zn Deposit, Duyun Co., Qiannan, Guizhou, China	Niujiaotang	Taylor et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1297

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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