Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
O'Connor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 204861
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-204861.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "O'Connor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Beaver Jr. Mine
Beaver Mine (McQuaig)
Climax Mine (Keystone)
Cooper Claim
Estelle Claim
Fisher Claim
Little Pig Vein
Longworth Claim
Madson Claim
Sjolander-McKirdy
St Louis Claim
Ursa Major Mine
West Beaver Mine

Latitude: 48°19'6"N
Longitude: 89°39'9"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.318333333333,-89.6525

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.

Acanthite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Fluorite	Harmotome	Molybdenite
Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Talc

Acanthite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Harmotome ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*
Witherite ()*

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 Mg Mo O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Fluorite Harmotome Molybdenite
Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Talc

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	5	33417,33418,33419,33423,33429	2793
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	4	33417,33418,33423,33429	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	8	33417,33418,33419,33423,33424,33425,33426,33429	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	8	33417,33418,33420,33423,33426,33427,33428,33429	27198
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	5	33417,33418,33419,33423,33429	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	10	33417,33418,33419,33420,33423,33424,33426,33427,33428,33429	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	33418,33421,33424,33425,33426	30554
Harmotome ()*	Harmotome	Ba₂(Si₁₂Al₄)O₃₂·12H₂O	1	33418	290
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	33426	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	12	33417,33418,33419,33420,33421,33423,33424,33425,33426,33427,33428,33429	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	33418	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	12	33417,33418,33419,33420,33421,33423,33424,33425,33426,33427,33428,33429	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	4	33417,33418,33423,33429	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	6	33417,33418,33419,33423,33426,33429	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	33418	3337
Witherite ()*	Aragonite	Ba(CO₃)	1	33418	251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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