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Locality Name:
Gongyiming Fe Deposit, Guyang Co., Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2647
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2491

mindat Locality ID: 186551
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-186551.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gongyiming Fe Deposit, Guyang Co., Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 40°55'0"N
Longitude: 109°57'30"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.916666666667,109.95833333333

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: Fe O 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe O 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
NoneSpinel

1 IMA Minerals at location:
Magnetite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O425702560014899



4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
OGR63_388_0001257625482562 ± 14U-Pbmineralizationzircon   Zircon  186551Gongyiming Fe Deposit, Guyang Co., Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, ChinaGongyiming Fe DepositLi (2014) OGR63_388 
OGR63_388_0002264724912569 ± 78U-Pbmineralizationzircon   Zircon  186551Gongyiming Fe Deposit, Guyang Co., Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, ChinaGongyiming Fe DepositLi (2014) OGR63_388 
OGR63_388_0003261124992555 ±56U-Pbrock post-dates mineralizationzircon   Zircon  186551Gongyiming Fe Deposit, Guyang Co., Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, ChinaGongyiming Fe DepositLi (2014) OGR63_388 
OGR63_388-00001257025602570-2560       Fe186551Gongyiming Fe Deposit, Guyang Co., Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, ChinaGongyimingLiu et al. (2014)10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.10.011OGR63_388 


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