Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Picket Pins Prospect (Picket Pin Occurrence), Stillwater Complex, Sweet Grass Co., Montana, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2906
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2681

mindat Locality ID: 163956
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-163956.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Picket Pins Prospect (Picket Pin Occurrence), Stillwater Complex, Sweet Grass Co., Montana, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 45°26'57"N
Longitude: 110°3'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.449166666667,-110.05027777778

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.

Amphibole	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Melonite	Nickeline	None
Pentlandite	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Spinel	Stillwaterite	Talc

Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Enstatite ()*
Epidote ()*	Graphite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Keithconnite ()*	Kotulskite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Moncheite ()*	Palarstanide ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sperrylite ()*	Stibiopalladinite ()*	Talc ()*
Temagamite ()*	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: Al As Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Hg Mg Ni O Pd Pt S Sb Si Sn Te Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Hg Mg Ni O Pd Pt S Sb Si Sn Te Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Melonite Nickeline None
Pentlandite Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Spinel Stillwaterite Talc

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	2906	2681	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2906	2681	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2906	2681	27198
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2906	2681	1025
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	2906	2681	944
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2906	2681	8173
Graphite ()*	None	C	2906	2681	2812
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2906	2681	5433
Keithconnite ()*	None	Pd₂₀Te₇	2906	2681	40
Kotulskite ()*	Nickeline	Pd(Te,Bi)_2-x (x ≈ 0.4)	2906	2681	116
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2906	2681	14899
Moncheite ()*	Melonite	Pt(Te,Bi)₂	2906	2681	133
Palarstanide ()*	Stillwaterite	Pd₅(Sn,As)₂	2906	2681	13
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	2906	2681	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2906	2681	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2906	2681	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2906	2681	61156
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	2906	2681	337
Stibiopalladinite ()*	None	Pd₅Sb₂	2906	2681	75
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2906	2681	3337
Temagamite ()*	None	Pd₃HgTe₃	2906	2681	24
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2906	2681	2562

2 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
	JP35_1717-00001	2906	2754	2830±76	Re-Os		high		81MVL217, 801M02, 355-64-556.0, 355-64-684.5, 355-		Yes				3883	Stillwater Complex, Nye, Stillwater Co., Montana, USA	Stillwater PGE deposit, Montana, USA	Lambert et al. (1994)	10.1093/petrology/35.6.1717	JP35_1717
	JP35_1717-00002	2721	2681	2701±20	Sm-Nd		high				Yes				3883	Stillwater Complex, Nye, Stillwater Co., Montana, USA	Stillwater PGE deposit, Montana, USA	Lambert et al. (1994)	10.1093/petrology/35.6.1717	JP35_1717

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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