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:
Kasa District, Kyoto, Japan

mindat Locality ID: 157490
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-157490.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kasa District, Kyoto, Japan": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Kohmori Ultrabasic Mass

Latitude: 35°27'30"N
Longitude: 135°8'28"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.458333333333,135.14111111111

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.

Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Cubanite	Feldspar	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Spinel	Wurtzite

Albite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Galena ()*
Mackinawite ()*	Magnesiochromite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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 As Cr Cu Fe Mg Mo Na Ni O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Cubanite Feldspar Molybdenite Nickeline None Pentlandite Pyrite Rocksalt
Sphalerite Spinel Wurtzite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	75562	8803
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	75563	9052
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	75563	27198
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	75563	802
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	75563	24243
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	75563	451
Magnesiochromite ()*	Spinel	MgCr₂O₄	1	75563	311
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	75563	5800
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	75563	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	75563	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	75563	9056
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	75563	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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