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Locality Name:
Son La Province, Vietnam

Oldest recorded age at locality: 340
Youngest recorded age at locality: 250

mindat Locality ID: 208537
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-208537.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Son La Province, Vietnam": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Bac Yen District
Co Phuong
Nậm Giôm
Song Ma
Tạ Khoa
Tule

Latitude: 21°12'28"N
Longitude: 104°16'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 21.207777777778,104.28277777778

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	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Fluorite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Pyroxene
Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Tetradymite	Ullmannite

Chalcopyrite ()*	Diopside ()*	Heazlewoodite ()*	Maucherite ()*	Michenerite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Parkerite ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Rutile ()*	Sperrylite ()*	Spinel ()*
Tremolite ()*	Tsumoite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*	Vermiculite ()*
Violarite ()*

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 Bi Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mo Ni O Pb Pd Pt S Si Te Ti U

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Chalcopyrite Clay Fluorite Molybdenite Nickeline None Pentlandite Pyrite Pyroxene
Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Tetradymite Ullmannite

21 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
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	340	250	1	294839	27198
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆			2	294840,294841	4135
Heazlewoodite ()*	None	Ni₃S₂	340	250	1	294839	205
Maucherite ()*	None	Ni₁₁As₈	340	250	1	294839	161
Michenerite ()*	Ullmannite	PdBiTe	340	250	1	294839	114
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			1	294844	5800
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	340	250	1	294839	633
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	340	250	1	294839	767
Parkerite ()*	None	Ni₃(Bi,Pb)₂S₂	340	250	1	294839	55
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	340	250	1	294839	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	340	250	1	294839	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	340	250	1	294839	9056
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			1	294843	5614
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	340	250	1	294839	337
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄			1	294843	1934
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			2	294840,294841	2562
Tsumoite ()*	Tetradymite	BiTe	340	250	1	294839	100
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂			1	294844	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O			1	294844	890
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O			1	294843	652
Violarite ()*	Spinel	FeNi₂S₄	340	250	1	294839	380

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
	EG105_1057_007	340	250	340-250										Ni, Cu, Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Os, Ru	27055	Ban Phuc Cu-Ni Deposit, Ban Phuc, Bac Yen District, Son La Province, Vietnam	Ban Phuc	Begg et al. (2010)	10.2113/econgeo.105.6.1057	EG105_1057

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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