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.

Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel

Arsenopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Hydrozincite ()*	Malachite ()*	Manganite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	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 As Au C Ca Cr Cu Fe H K Mn Mo O Pb S Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Malachite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel

15 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
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			12	134448,134456,134462,134463,134465,134466,134468,134473,134483,134484,134485,134488	9052
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			4	134460,134468,134488,134490	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	164	164	3	134445,134447,134467	3902
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			10	134448,134451,134456,134462,134466,134468,134473,134484,134485,134488	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			26	134446,134448,134449,134450,134452,134453,134455,134456,134458,134459,134462,134463,134464,134465,134466,134468,134469,134470,134472,134473,134479,134481,134483,134484,134485,134488	30554
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆			1	134490	1066
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			1	134490	12537
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)			1	134480	770
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			1	134471	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			11	134448,134456,134463,134465,134466,134468,134473,134483,134484,134485,134488	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			15	134448,134456,134460,134462,134463,134465,134466,134468,134473,134475,134483,134484,134485,134488,134490	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			1	134460	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			13	134448,134456,134462,134463,134465,134466,134468,134473,134480,134483,134484,134485,134488	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)			3	134457,134472,134474	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			6	134462,134468,134471,134475,134484,134488	21482

10 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
podchrome-00879	164	164	Jurassic	Cr	196460	Bernard Mountain Prospect (Red Mountain), Nelchina District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA	Bernard Mountain 2-4	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00880	164	164	Jurassic	Cr	196460	Bernard Mountain Prospect (Red Mountain), Nelchina District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA	Bernard Mountain 5	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00881	164	164	Jurassic	Cr	196460	Bernard Mountain Prospect (Red Mountain), Nelchina District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA	Bernard Mountain 6	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00882	164	164	Jurassic	Cr	196460	Bernard Mountain Prospect (Red Mountain), Nelchina District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA	Bernard Mountain 7	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00883	164	164	Jurassic	Cr	196460	Bernard Mountain Prospect (Red Mountain), Nelchina District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA	Bernard Mountain 12-13	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00884	164	164	Jurassic	Cr	196460	Bernard Mountain Prospect (Red Mountain), Nelchina District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA	Bernard Mountain 14	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00885	164	164	Jurassic	Cr	196460	Bernard Mountain Prospect (Red Mountain), Nelchina District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA	Bernard Mountain 15	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00888	164	164	Jurassic	Cr	197286	Dust Mountain Prospect, Nelchina District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA	Dust Mountain 19	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00886	164	164	Jurassic	Cr	199902	Sheep Hill; Dust Mountain Prospect (west), Nelchina District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA	Sheep Hill 17	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00887	164	164	Jurassic	Cr	199902	Sheep Hill; Dust Mountain Prospect (west), Nelchina District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA	Sheep Hill 18	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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