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.

Amphibole	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Fluorite	Malachite
Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Owyheeite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Serpentine	Sphalerite
Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Boulangerite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Metatorbernite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Owyheeite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
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: Ag Al Au Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg O P Pb S Sb Si Ti U W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite Fluorite Malachite
Mica None Not in a structural group Owyheeite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Serpentine Sphalerite
Spinel Tetrahedrite

26 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
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			2	132586,132597	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			2	132576,132588	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄			2	132586,132602	5516
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁			1	132603	843
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	360	360	4	132576,132579,132586,132591	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			1	132586	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	360	360	14	132575,132576,132579,132586,132589,132591,132592,132593,132594,132596,132602,132605,132606,132607	27198
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	132582	951
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS			1	132586	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O			1	132602	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂			1	132586	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			1	132576	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	360	360	10	132576,132586,132588,132591,132592,132597,132601,132605,132606,132607	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			8	132571,132572,132573,132574,132577,132578,132583,132587	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃			1	132608	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	132601	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			10	132579,132586,132589,132590,132593,132596,132597,132598,132599,132604	12537
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O			1	132600	443
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	360	360	1	132591	17380
Owyheeite ()*	Owyheeite	Ag₃Pb₁₀Sb₁₁S₂₈	360	360	1	132591	89
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	360	360	8	132579,132586,132588,132589,132591,132593,132601,132602	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	360	360	9	132576,132579,132586,132589,132591,132593,132594,132601,132602	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)			1	132577	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	360	360	4	132576,132586,132588,132591	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			1	132586	5317
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			4	132580,132582,132595,132596	2562

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-01001	360	360	Devonian-Mississippian										S	200040	Smucker Prospect (Charlie; Patti; Puzzle; Ambler 4-B), Kiana District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA	Smucker	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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