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:
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

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.

None	Spinel

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:
None Spinel

1 IMA Minerals at location:

Magnetite ()*

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
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2570	2560	0		14899

4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Sample Source	Dated Mineral	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
OGR63_388_0001	2576	2548	2562 ± 14	U-Pb	mineralization	zircon	Zircon		186551	Gongyiming Fe Deposit, Guyang Co., Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China	Gongyiming Fe Deposit	Li (2014)		OGR63_388
OGR63_388_0002	2647	2491	2569 ± 78	U-Pb	mineralization	zircon	Zircon		186551	Gongyiming Fe Deposit, Guyang Co., Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China	Gongyiming Fe Deposit	Li (2014)		OGR63_388
OGR63_388_0003	2611	2499	2555 ±56	U-Pb	rock post-dates mineralization	zircon	Zircon		186551	Gongyiming Fe Deposit, Guyang Co., Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China	Gongyiming Fe Deposit	Li (2014)		OGR63_388
OGR63_388-00001	2570	2560	2570-2560					Fe	186551	Gongyiming Fe Deposit, Guyang Co., Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China	Gongyiming	Liu et al. (2014)	10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.10.011	OGR63_388

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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