Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Nicol Township, Gowganda Area, Cobalt-Gowganda Region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2222.9
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2215.9

mindat Locality ID: 213310
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-213310.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nicol Township, Gowganda Area, Cobalt-Gowganda Region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Big Four Claims
Castle No.1 Shaft
Chapelle Mine
Coleroy Mine (Collins Mine; Leroy Lake Mine)
Hart Claim
Morrison Mine
O'Brien (Former Town Of)
Silver Bullion Mine
Siscoe Mine (Miller Lake O'Brien Mine; O'Brien Mine)
Tonopah Mine (Walsh Mine)

Latitude: 47°39'36"N
Longitude: 80°43'19"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.66,-80.721944444444

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	Amphibole	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Cerite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Cobaltite	Copper
Corundum	Epidote	Garnet	Kobellite	Löllingite	Malachite	Millerite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group
Perovskite	Polybasite	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Skutterudite	Sphalerite	Vivianite	Xanthoconite

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Alloclasite ()*	Andradite ()*	Annabergite ()*
Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bornite ()*	Breithauptite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerite-(Ce) ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cobaltite ()*
Epidote ()*	Erythrite ()*	Galena ()*	Galenobismutite ()*	Hematite ()*
Malachite ()*	Maucherite ()*	Millerite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Pearceite ()*
Polybasite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rammelsbergite ()*	Safflorite ()*	Silver ()*	Skutterudite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	Stromeyerite ()*	Xanthoconite ()*

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 As Bi C Ca Ce Co Cu Fe H La Mg Ni O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amphibole Arsenic Arsenopyrite Calcite Cerite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Cobaltite Copper
Corundum Epidote Garnet Kobellite Löllingite Malachite Millerite Nickeline None Not in a structural group
Perovskite Polybasite Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Skutterudite Sphalerite Vivianite Xanthoconite

39 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
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	2222.9	2215.9	3	33856,33858,33861	2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	3419
Alloclasite ()*	Löllingite	CoAsS	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	56
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	2222.9	2215.9	1	33858	1534
Annabergite ()*	Vivianite	Ni₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	445
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2222.9	2215.9	2	33860,33861	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2222.9	2215.9	1	33855	5509
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	2222.9	2215.9	4	33856,33858,33860,33862	1966
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2222.9	2215.9	4	33855,33856,33857,33861	5516
Breithauptite ()*	Nickeline	NiSb	2222.9	2215.9	2	33855,33856	175
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2222.9	2215.9	8	33853,33855,33856,33857,33858,33860,33861,33862	27770
Cerite-(Ce) ()*	Cerite	(Ce₇Ca₂) Mg(SiO₄)₃(SiO₃OH)₄(OH)₃	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	47
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2222.9	2215.9	7	33855,33856,33857,33858,33860,33861,33862	27198
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	2222.9	2215.9	2	33853,33856	966
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2222.9	2215.9	1	33858	8173
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	2222.9	2215.9	2	33853,33858	814
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2222.9	2215.9	3	33853,33858,33861	24243
Galenobismutite ()*	Kobellite	PbBi₂S₄	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	192
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2222.9	2215.9	1	33862	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2222.9	2215.9	1	33855	12537
Maucherite ()*	None	Ni₁₁As₈	2222.9	2215.9	1	33856	161
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	1066
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	2222.9	2215.9	5	33855,33856,33860,33861,33862	633
Pearceite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(As,Sb)₂S₇]	2222.9	2215.9	2	33858,33861	249
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	716
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	1898
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2222.9	2215.9	6	33853,33855,33856,33857,33858,33861	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2222.9	2215.9	3	33856,33858,33861	61156
Rammelsbergite ()*	Löllingite	NiAs₂	2222.9	2215.9	2	33855,33861	233
Safflorite ()*	Löllingite	CoAs₂	2222.9	2215.9	3	33855,33858,33861	317
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2222.9	2215.9	7	33855,33856,33857,33858,33860,33861,33862	5186
Skutterudite ()*	Skutterudite Perovskite	CoAs₃	2222.9	2215.9	4	33855,33856,33860,33861	531
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	586
Stromeyerite ()*	None	CuAgS	2222.9	2215.9	2	33858,33861	332
Xanthoconite ()*	Xanthoconite	Ag₃AsS₃	2222.9	2215.9	1	33861	89

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Sample Source	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
Emily000531	2217.5	2217.5		U-Pb	age of vein mineralization	rutile	Yes	Rutile		58159	Cobalt-Gowganda Region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada	Cobalt-Gowganda region	Marshall and Watkinson (2000)	10.2113/0090081	EMG9_81
Emily000532	2217	2217		U-Pb	age of vein mineralization	rutile	Yes	Rutile		58159	Cobalt-Gowganda Region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada	Cobalt-Gowganda region	Marshall and Watkinson (2000)	10.2113/0090081	EMG9_81
Co-00114	2222.9	2215.9	2219.4 (+3.6/-3.5)	U-Pb			Yes		Co, Ni, As, Ag, Bi	5830	Castle Mine (Castle-Trethewey Mine), Haultain Township, Gowganda Area, Cobalt-Gowganda Region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada	Nipissing diabase, Castle mine, Gowganda, Ontario	Andrews et al. (1986)	10.1139/e86-144	CJES_23_1507	error is (+3.6/-3.5); age of Nipissing diabase, the Ni-Co-As-Ag-Bi veins are this age or younger

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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