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:
Glace Bay, Sydney Coalfield, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 221100
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-221100.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Glace Bay, Sydney Coalfield, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
#26 Colliery
Emery Seam

Latitude: 46°12'55"N
Longitude: 59°59'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.215277777778,-59.996944444444

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.

Copiapite	Epsomite	Halotrichite	Melanterite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Starkeyite	Tamarugite

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 Fe H Mg Na O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Fe H Mg O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copiapite Epsomite Halotrichite Melanterite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Starkeyite Tamarugite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Aluminocopiapite ()*	Epsomite ()*	Fibroferrite ()*	Halotrichite ()*	Melanterite ()*
Pickeringite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Rozenite ()*	Sideronatrite ()*	Tamarugite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aluminocopiapite ()*	Copiapite	(Al,Mg)Fe³⁺₄(SO₄)₆(OH,O)₂·20H₂O	2	31152,31153	50
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	31152	484
Fibroferrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Fe³⁺(SO₄)(OH)·5H₂O	1	31152	107
Halotrichite ()*	Halotrichite	Fe²⁺Al₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	1	31152	409
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	31152	915
Pickeringite ()*	Halotrichite	MgAl₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	0		265
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	31152	39462
Rozenite ()*	Starkeyite	Fe²⁺(SO₄)·4H₂O	0		293
Sideronatrite ()*	None	Na₂Fe³⁺(SO₄)₂(OH)·3H₂O	1	31152	73
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	1	31152	87

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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