Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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.

Locality Name:
Scoble Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 212936
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-212936.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Scoble Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Rabbit Mountain Area
Rabbit Mountain Junior Mine
Rabbit Mountain Mine (Great Lakes Silver Mine)
Whitefish Lake Mines

Latitude: 48°18'22"N
Longitude: 89°36'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.306111111111,-89.605833333333

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	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Smectite-vermiculite	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: Ag Al Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg Na 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 None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Harmotome ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Saponite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Witherite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	3	33479,33480,33481	2793
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	33479	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	33479,33480,33481	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	33479,33480,33481	27198
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	3	33479,33480,33481	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	33479,33480,33481	24243
Harmotome ()*	Harmotome	Ba₂(Si₁₂Al₄)O₃₂·12H₂O	1	33481	290
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	33479,33480,33481	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	33479,33480,33481	61156
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	33481	301
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	3	33479,33480,33481	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	33479,33480,33481	21482
Witherite ()*	Aragonite	Ba(CO₃)	1	33481	251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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