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Locality Name:
Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Oldest recorded age at locality: 520
Youngest recorded age at locality: 15.97

mindat Locality ID: 213678
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-213678.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Arpheuille
Champoly
Contenson
Juré
Saint-Priest-la-Prugne
Saint-Romain-d'Urfé

Latitude: 45°53'40"N
Longitude: 3°49'24"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.894444444444,3.8233333333333

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K O P Pb S Sb Si Sn U V Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllophaneApatiteAragoniteArsenicArsenopyriteAutuniteBaryteBournoniteCalciteChalcopyrite
CorundumCovelliteDiasporeFluoriteGypsumJohanniteMalachiteNoneNot in a structural groupOxalate
PhosphuranylitePyriteQuartzRocksaltRutileSchoepiteSphaleriteSpinelStibniteTetrahedrite
Zircon

48 IMA Minerals at location:
Anglesite  (*)Anhydrite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Autunite  (*)Azurite  (*)
Baryte  (*)Becquerelite  (*)Billietite  (*)Bismuth  (*)Bismuthinite  (*)
Bornite  (*)Bournonite  (*)Calcite  (*)Cassiterite  (*)Cerussite  (*)
Chalcocite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chrysocolla  (*)Coffinite  (*)Covellite  (*)
Dewindtite  (*)Fluorite  (*)Galena  (*)Goethite  (*)Gypsum  (*)
Hematite  (*)Ianthinite  (*)Johannite  (*)Kasolite  (*)Magnetite  (*)
Malachite  (*)Uranophane-β  (*)Parsonsite  (*)Phosphuranylite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Pyromorphite  (*)Quartz  (*)Schoepite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Torbernite  (*)Tyuyamunite  (*)Uraninite  (*)Uranophane-α  (*)Uranopilite  (*)
Vandendriesscheite  (*)Whewellite  (*)Wyartite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite  (*)BarytePb(SO4)1515372734
Anhydrite  (*)Not in a structural groupCa(SO4)52015.971515451588
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS52015.971515459052
Autunite  (*)AutuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2·10-12H2O30515.97451541,51543,51544,515451272
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)2351535,51536,515475509
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)451533,51536,51537,5153911547
Becquerelite  (*)NoneCa(UO2)6O4(OH)6·8H2O30515.97251541,5154592
Billietite  (*)NoneBa(UO2)6O4(OH)6·8H2O30515.9715154538
Bismuth  (*)ArsenicBi1515371966
Bismuthinite  (*)StibniteBi2S352015.971515451935
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS41515475516
Bournonite  (*)BournoniteCuPbSbS31515371089
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)351535,51537,5154727770
Cassiterite  (*)RutileSnO21515375171
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)551535,51536,51537,51539,515474979
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S52015.97251545,515475707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS252015.97951533,51535,51536,51537,51539,51541,51543,51545,5154727198
Chrysocolla  (*)Allophane(Cu2-xAlx)H2-xSi2O5(OH)4·nH2O52015.971515453531
Coffinite  (*)ZirconU(SiO4)·nH2O30515.97251541,51545566
Covellite  (*)CovelliteCuS52015.97251537,515454165
Dewindtite  (*)PhosphuranyliteH2Pb3(UO2)6O4(PO4)4·12H2O30515.97351541,51543,5154582
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF252015.97651533,51535,51536,51537,51539,515459617
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS52015.97751533,51535,51536,51537,51539,51545,5154724243
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)1515437437
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O52015.971515456890
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O352015.97251543,5154514640
Ianthinite  (*)NoneU4+2(UO2)4O6(OH)4·9H2O30515.97251541,5154531
Johannite  (*)JohanniteCu(UO2)2(SO4)2(OH)2·8H2O30515.9715154569
Kasolite  (*)NonePb(UO2)(SiO4)·H2O30515.97351541,51543,51545198
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O415154714899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)252015.97751533,51535,51536,51537,51539,51545,5154712537
Uranophane-β  (*)NoneCa(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2·5H2O30515.97251541,51545144
Parsonsite  (*)NonePb2(UO2)(PO4)230515.97351541,51543,5154563
Phosphuranylite  (*)PhosphuranyliteKCa(H3O)3(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8H2O30515.97251541,51545182
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS252015.97751535,51536,51537,51541,51543,51545,5154739462
Pyromorphite  (*)ApatitePb5(PO4)3Cl52015.97551533,51536,51537,51539,515451725
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO252015.97951533,51535,51536,51537,51539,51541,51543,51545,5154761156
Schoepite  (*)Schoepite(UO2)4O(OH)6(H2O)630515.97251541,5154594
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS451536,51537,51539,5154721482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S13351533,51536,515375317
Torbernite  (*)NoneCu(UO2)2(PO4)2·12H2O30515.97351541,51543,515451059
Tyuyamunite  (*)NoneCa(UO2)2(VO4)2·5-8H2O151542628
Uraninite  (*)FluoriteUO2305305451541,51542,51543,515452718
Uranophane-α  (*)NoneCa(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2·5H2O30515.97351541,51543,51545890
Uranopilite  (*)None(UO2)6(SO4)O2(OH)6·14H2O30515.9715154594
Vandendriesscheite  (*)NonePb1.6(UO2)10O6(OH)11·11H2O30515.97251541,5154552
Whewellite  (*)OxalateCa(C2O4)·H2O52015.97351540,51541,5154566
Wyartite  (*)NoneCaU5+(UO2)2(CO3)O4(OH)·7H2O30515.97251541,515453



Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:
Age IDLocality Notes
Giersdorf_00000690The genesis of the Bois Noirs-Limouzat uranium deposit involves a very complex history. The Bols Noirs granite resulted from the anatexis of uranium-rich sediments near granulite facies conditions. The temperature is estimated to have been at least 800 degrees Celsius accompanied by a low H20 partial pressure (possibly resulting from the presence of carbon dioxide). This magma was syntectonically emplaced along the east-west structures in a nonmetamorphic environment. Progressive crystallization and differentiation proceeded inward from the margins toward the core of the intrusion. A fluid phase formed after a large part of the magma had crystallized. This fluid migrated toward the core and altered the primary magmatic minerals, quartz, orthoclase, oligoclase, and biotite, to quartz, microcline , albite, and chlorite. The alteration of the primary accessory minerals, sphene, zircon, monazite, and xenotime, resulted in the partial liberation of their uranium content. When all the magma had crystallized, the fluid phase migrated outward to precipitate uraninite, with an associated quartz-muscovite alteration. This critical step produced an easily leachable uranium source in the granite in the form of uraninite.
Giersdorf_00000691The genesis of the Bois Noirs-Limouzat uranium deposit involves a very complex history. The Bols Noirs granite resulted from the anatexis of uranium-rich sediments near granulite facies conditions. The temperature is estimated to have been at least 800 degrees Celsius accompanied by a low H20 partial pressure (possibly resulting from the presence of carbon dioxide). This magma was syntectonically emplaced along the east-west structures in a nonmetamorphic environment. Progressive crystallization and differentiation proceeded inward from the margins toward the core of the intrusion. A fluid phase formed after a large part of the magma had crystallized. This fluid migrated toward the core and altered the primary magmatic minerals, quartz, orthoclase, oligoclase, and biotite, to quartz, microcline , albite, and chlorite. The alteration of the primary accessory minerals, sphene, zircon, monazite, and xenotime, resulted in the partial liberation of their uranium content. When all the magma had crystallized, the fluid phase migrated outward to precipitate uraninite, with an associated quartz-muscovite alteration. This critical step produced an easily leachable uranium source in the granite in the form of uraninite.
Giersdorf_00000692The genesis of the Bois Noirs-Limouzat uranium deposit involves a very complex history. The Bols Noirs granite resulted from the anatexis of uranium-rich sediments near granulite facies conditions. The temperature is estimated to have been at least 800 degrees Celsius accompanied by a low H20 partial pressure (possibly resulting from the presence of carbon dioxide). This magma was syntectonically emplaced along the east-west structures in a nonmetamorphic environment. Progressive crystallization and differentiation proceeded inward from the margins toward the core of the intrusion. A fluid phase formed after a large part of the magma had crystallized. This fluid migrated toward the core and altered the primary magmatic minerals, quartz, orthoclase, oligoclase, and biotite, to quartz, microcline , albite, and chlorite. The alteration of the primary accessory minerals, sphene, zircon, monazite, and xenotime, resulted in the partial liberation of their uranium content. When all the magma had crystallized, the fluid phase migrated outward to precipitate uraninite, with an associated quartz-muscovite alteration. This critical step produced an easily leachable uranium source in the granite in the form of uraninite.
Giersdorf_00000693The genesis of the Bois Noirs-Limouzat uranium deposit involves a very complex history. The Bols Noirs granite resulted from the anatexis of uranium-rich sediments near granulite facies conditions. The temperature is estimated to have been at least 800 degrees Celsius accompanied by a low H20 partial pressure (possibly resulting from the presence of carbon dioxide). This magma was syntectonically emplaced along the east-west structures in a nonmetamorphic environment. Progressive crystallization and differentiation proceeded inward from the margins toward the core of the intrusion. A fluid phase formed after a large part of the magma had crystallized. This fluid migrated toward the core and altered the primary magmatic minerals, quartz, orthoclase, oligoclase, and biotite, to quartz, microcline , albite, and chlorite. The alteration of the primary accessory minerals, sphene, zircon, monazite, and xenotime, resulted in the partial liberation of their uranium content. When all the magma had crystallized, the fluid phase migrated outward to precipitate uraninite, with an associated quartz-muscovite alteration. This critical step produced an easily leachable uranium source in the granite in the form of uraninite.
Giersdorf_00000694The genesis of the Bois Noirs-Limouzat uranium deposit involves a very complex history. The Bols Noirs granite resulted from the anatexis of uranium-rich sediments near granulite facies conditions. The temperature is estimated to have been at least 800 degrees Celsius accompanied by a low H20 partial pressure (possibly resulting from the presence of carbon dioxide). This magma was syntectonically emplaced along the east-west structures in a nonmetamorphic environment. Progressive crystallization and differentiation proceeded inward from the margins toward the core of the intrusion. A fluid phase formed after a large part of the magma had crystallized. This fluid migrated toward the core and altered the primary magmatic minerals, quartz, orthoclase, oligoclase, and biotite, to quartz, microcline , albite, and chlorite. The alteration of the primary accessory minerals, sphene, zircon, monazite, and xenotime, resulted in the partial liberation of their uranium content. When all the magma had crystallized, the fluid phase migrated outward to precipitate uraninite, with an associated quartz-muscovite alteration. This critical step produced an easily leachable uranium source in the granite in the form of uraninite.
Giersdorf_00000695The genesis of the Bois Noirs-Limouzat uranium deposit involves a very complex history. The Bols Noirs granite resulted from the anatexis of uranium-rich sediments near granulite facies conditions. The temperature is estimated to have been at least 800 degrees Celsius accompanied by a low H20 partial pressure (possibly resulting from the presence of carbon dioxide). This magma was syntectonically emplaced along the east-west structures in a nonmetamorphic environment. Progressive crystallization and differentiation proceeded inward from the margins toward the core of the intrusion. A fluid phase formed after a large part of the magma had crystallized. This fluid migrated toward the core and altered the primary magmatic minerals, quartz, orthoclase, oligoclase, and biotite, to quartz, microcline , albite, and chlorite. The alteration of the primary accessory minerals, sphene, zircon, monazite, and xenotime, resulted in the partial liberation of their uranium content. When all the magma had crystallized, the fluid phase migrated outward to precipitate uraninite, with an associated quartz-muscovite alteration. This critical step produced an easily leachable uranium source in the granite in the form of uraninite.
Giersdorf_00000696The genesis of the Bois Noirs-Limouzat uranium deposit involves a very complex history. The Bols Noirs granite resulted from the anatexis of uranium-rich sediments near granulite facies conditions. The temperature is estimated to have been at least 800 degrees Celsius accompanied by a low H20 partial pressure (possibly resulting from the presence of carbon dioxide). This magma was syntectonically emplaced along the east-west structures in a nonmetamorphic environment. Progressive crystallization and differentiation proceeded inward from the margins toward the core of the intrusion. A fluid phase formed after a large part of the magma had crystallized. This fluid migrated toward the core and altered the primary magmatic minerals, quartz, orthoclase, oligoclase, and biotite, to quartz, microcline , albite, and chlorite. The alteration of the primary accessory minerals, sphene, zircon, monazite, and xenotime, resulted in the partial liberation of their uranium content. When all the magma had crystallized, the fluid phase migrated outward to precipitate uraninite, with an associated quartz-muscovite alteration. This critical step produced an easily leachable uranium source in the granite in the form of uraninite.
Giersdorf_00000698The genesis of the Bois Noirs-Limouzat uranium deposit involves a very complex history. The Bols Noirs granite resulted from the anatexis of uranium-rich sediments near granulite facies conditions. The temperature is estimated to have been at least 800 degrees Celsius accompanied by a low H20 partial pressure (possibly resulting from the presence of carbon dioxide). This magma was syntectonically emplaced along the east-west structures in a nonmetamorphic environment. Progressive crystallization and differentiation proceeded inward from the margins toward the core of the intrusion. A fluid phase formed after a large part of the magma had crystallized. This fluid migrated toward the core and altered the primary magmatic minerals, quartz, orthoclase, oligoclase, and biotite, to quartz, microcline , albite, and chlorite. The alteration of the primary accessory minerals, sphene, zircon, monazite, and xenotime, resulted in the partial liberation of their uranium content. When all the magma had crystallized, the fluid phase migrated outward to precipitate uraninite, with an associated quartz-muscovite alteration. This critical step produced an easily leachable uranium source in the granite in the form of uraninite.
Giersdorf_00000700The genesis of the Bois Noirs-Limouzat uranium deposit involves a very complex history. The Bols Noirs granite resulted from the anatexis of uranium-rich sediments near granulite facies conditions. The temperature is estimated to have been at least 800 degrees Celsius accompanied by a low H20 partial pressure (possibly resulting from the presence of carbon dioxide). This magma was syntectonically emplaced along the east-west structures in a nonmetamorphic environment. Progressive crystallization and differentiation proceeded inward from the margins toward the core of the intrusion. A fluid phase formed after a large part of the magma had crystallized. This fluid migrated toward the core and altered the primary magmatic minerals, quartz, orthoclase, oligoclase, and biotite, to quartz, microcline , albite, and chlorite. The alteration of the primary accessory minerals, sphene, zircon, monazite, and xenotime, resulted in the partial liberation of their uranium content. When all the magma had crystallized, the fluid phase migrated outward to precipitate uraninite, with an associated quartz-muscovite alteration. This critical step produced an easily leachable uranium source in the granite in the form of uraninite.


10 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
Giersdorf_00000842270270270  coffinite   Coffinite U1732Les Bois-Noirs Mining Claim, Saint-Priest-la-Prugne, Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceBois NoirsCarrat & Kosztolanyi (1987) CRSAS305_89 
Giersdorf_00000690520520520  biotite     12814Le Limouzat Mine (incl. Le Limouzat Quarry; BN3; BN5; BN6), Les Bois-Noirs Mining Claim, Saint-Priest-la-Prugne, Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceBois Noirs-Limouzat Uranium VeinCuney (1978)10.2113/gsecongeo.73.8.1567EG73_1567Age is given for the biotite granite of the first intrusion of the subject area
Giersdorf_00000691312298312-298  whole rock     12814Le Limouzat Mine (incl. Le Limouzat Quarry; BN3; BN5; BN6), Les Bois-Noirs Mining Claim, Saint-Priest-la-Prugne, Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceBois Noirs-Limouzat Uranium VeinCuney (1978)10.2113/gsecongeo.73.8.1567EG73_1567Age of metamorphism affecting the granite in the Bois Noirs
Giersdorf_00000692343327335±8whole rock       12814Le Limouzat Mine (incl. Le Limouzat Quarry; BN3; BN5; BN6), Les Bois-Noirs Mining Claim, Saint-Priest-la-Prugne, Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceBois Noirs-Limouzat Uranium VeinCuney (1978)10.2113/gsecongeo.73.8.1567EG73_1567Age of metamorphic event of the Bois Nors altering the Visean schist of the Ferrieres Basin
Giersdorf_00000693315310315-310  biotite     12814Le Limouzat Mine (incl. Le Limouzat Quarry; BN3; BN5; BN6), Les Bois-Noirs Mining Claim, Saint-Priest-la-Prugne, Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceBois Noirs-Limouzat Uranium VeinCuney (1978)10.2113/gsecongeo.73.8.1567EG73_1567Age of the intrusion of the Mayet-de-Montagne monzogranite
Giersdorf_00000694309303306±3  muscovite   MuscoviteMuscovite 12814Le Limouzat Mine (incl. Le Limouzat Quarry; BN3; BN5; BN6), Les Bois-Noirs Mining Claim, Saint-Priest-la-Prugne, Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceBois Noirs-Limouzat Uranium VeinCuney (1978)10.2113/gsecongeo.73.8.1567EG73_1567The age given is for the closing of the mica lattice, not the intrusion or emplacement of the granite
Giersdorf_00000695280264272±8 One of a series of minor intrusions during the Permian      12814Le Limouzat Mine (incl. Le Limouzat Quarry; BN3; BN5; BN6), Les Bois-Noirs Mining Claim, Saint-Priest-la-Prugne, Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceBois Noirs-Limouzat Uranium VeinCuney (1978)10.2113/gsecongeo.73.8.1567EG73_1567Intrusion age
Giersdorf_00000696295245270±25 One of a series of minor intrusions during the Permian      12814Le Limouzat Mine (incl. Le Limouzat Quarry; BN3; BN5; BN6), Les Bois-Noirs Mining Claim, Saint-Priest-la-Prugne, Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceBois Noirs-Limouzat Uranium VeinCuney (1978)10.2113/gsecongeo.73.8.1567EG73_1567Intrusion Age
Giersdorf_00000698305305305 Maximum age for the uraninite of the mine    UraniniteU12814Le Limouzat Mine (incl. Le Limouzat Quarry; BN3; BN5; BN6), Les Bois-Noirs Mining Claim, Saint-Priest-la-Prugne, Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceBois Noirs-Limouzat Uranium VeinCuney (1978)10.2113/gsecongeo.73.8.1567EG73_1567uraninite is found in the fractures of the microgranite of the mine, thereby constraining the maximum age of the uraninite mineralization
Giersdorf_0000070033.915.97Oligocene-Lower Miocene       U12814Le Limouzat Mine (incl. Le Limouzat Quarry; BN3; BN5; BN6), Les Bois-Noirs Mining Claim, Saint-Priest-la-Prugne, Saint-Just-en-Chevalet, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceBois Noirs-Limouzat Uranium VeinCuney (1978)10.2113/gsecongeo.73.8.1567EG73_1567Age of mobilization of secondary uranium minerals, described in the literature as Oligocene-Lower Miocene


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