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:
Finlayson Lake Camp, Watson Lake Mining District, Yukon, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 390
Youngest recorded age at locality: 330

mindat Locality ID: 192117
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-192117.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Finlayson Lake Camp, Watson Lake Mining District, Yukon, Canada": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Fyre Lake Deposit
GP4F Deposit
Ice Deposit
Kudz Ze Kayah Deposit
Wolverine Deposit

Latitude: 61°35'22"N
Longitude: 130°43'8"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 61.589444444444,-130.71888888889

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.

Calcite	Clay	Mica	None	Quartz

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 C Fe H K O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Clay Mica None Quartz

3 IMA Minerals at location:

Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*

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
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	360	360	1	35336	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	360	360	1	35336	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	360	360	1	35336	6417

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference ID
vms-00380	390	390	Devonian	S	192120	Ice Deposit, Finlayson Lake Camp, Watson Lake Mining District, Yukon, Canada	Ice	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1034
vms-00381	330	330	Mississippian	S	192118	Kudz Ze Kayah Deposit, Finlayson Lake Camp, Watson Lake Mining District, Yukon, Canada	Kudz Ze Kayah	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1034
vms-00383	360	360	Devonian-Mississippian	S	192116	Wolverine Deposit, Finlayson Lake Camp, Watson Lake Mining District, Yukon, Canada	Wolverine	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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