Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Butt Township, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 222760
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-222760.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Butt Township, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Armstrong Occurrence
Beaton Occurrence
Bullock Occurrence
Frank Watson Occurrence
Graphite Lake Mine (Cal Graphite; Kearney Graphite Mine)
Napolean Dault Occurrence
River's Occurrence (Yankee Dam)
Ryan Mann And Sheehan Claims
Sheehan Beryl Occurrence
Trafford Occurrence
William Elliott Claim (Mica Lake)

Latitude: 45°42'24"N
Longitude: 79°3'44"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.706666666667,-79.062222222222

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.

Aeschynite	Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Corundum	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet
Mica	Monazite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Spinel	Starkeyite	Titanite
Zircon

Aeschynite-(Y) ()*	Beryl ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Columbite-(Fe) ()*
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Microcline ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rozenite ()*	Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spessartine ()*
Titanite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Be C Ca Ce Cu Fe H K Mn Nb O P S Si Ta Th Ti U Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aeschynite Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Corundum Feldspar Fluorite Garnet
Mica Monazite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Spinel Starkeyite Titanite
Zircon

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aeschynite-(Y) ()*	Aeschynite	(Y,Ln,Ca,Th)(Ti,Nb)₂(O,OH)₆	1	32656	141
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1	32658	4286
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	32654	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	32656,32657,32658	27198
Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺Nb₂O₆	1	32658	518
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	2	32656,32658	414
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	32654	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	32656	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	5	32650,32651,32652,32655,32659	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	32650,32658	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	32652	4924
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	32658	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	32652,32658,32660	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	32654,32656,32657,32658	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	32654	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	9	32650,32651,32652,32653,32655,32656,32657,32658,32659	61156
Rozenite ()*	Starkeyite	Fe²⁺(SO₄)·4H₂O	1	32654	293
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	YFe³⁺Nb₂O₈	2	32656,32658	353
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	32654	1516
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	32652	1214
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	32651,32654	4899
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	3	32656,32658,32660	2718
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	32656,32658	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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