Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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.

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.

Allophane	Amphibole	Aphthitalite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum
Epidote	Gypsum	Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel

Actinolite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aphthitalite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celadonite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	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 Au Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amphibole Aphthitalite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum
Epidote Gypsum Malachite Marcasite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel

25 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			2	130633,130659	3419
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	190	190	3	130634,130636,130637	1588
Aphthitalite ()*	Aphthitalite	K₃Na(SO₄)₂			1	130629	77
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			6	130632,130633,130640,130656,130657,130659	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	190	190	4	130634,130635,130636,130637	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄			2	130638,130640	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	190	190	6	130633,130634,130635,130636,130657,130659	27770
Celadonite ()*	Mica Clay	KMgFe³⁺Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	190	190	1	130636	309
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	190	190	12	130632,130633,130634,130636,130637,130638,130641,130656,130657,130659,130660,130664	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O			2	130633,130659	3531
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			4	130632,130633,130657,130659	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	190	190	5	130636,130637,130653,130654,130664	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	190	190	4	130634,130635,130636,130637	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			1	130635	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	190	190	1	130636	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			18	130631,130632,130633,130638,130642,130644,130646,130647,130649,130650,130651,130656,130657,130658,130659,130660,130661,130662	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			8	130632,130633,130638,130645,130656,130657,130659,130660	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			1	130632	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			5	130640,130641,130654,130655,130664	5800
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	190	190	1	130636	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	190	190	4	130636,130637,130653,130664	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	190	190	14	130632,130633,130634,130635,130636,130637,130638,130641,130653,130654,130659,130660,130663,130664	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			2	130632,130641	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	190	190	14	130632,130633,130634,130635,130636,130640,130653,130654,130657,130658,130659,130660,130661,130664	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	190	190	9	130634,130635,130636,130637,130641,130653,130654,130663,130664	21482

1 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
	vms-00993	190	190	Lower Jurassic										S	195712	Johnson River Prospect, Redoubt District, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, USA	Johnson River Prospect	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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