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Locality Name:
Deloro Township, Porcupine Mining District, Timmins Area, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 4000
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2500

mindat Locality ID: 228155
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-228155.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Deloro Township, Porcupine Mining District, Timmins Area, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Aunor Mine
Bowan Mine
Bowman Mine
Buffalo-Ankerite Mine
Canadian Magnesite Occurrence
Delnite Mine
Faymar Mine
Porcupine Triumph Mine (Jodelo; Shaftore)
Slade-Forbes Mine
Tisdale-Ankerite Mine (Nakhados Mine)

Latitude: 48°25'1"N
Longitude: 81°16'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.416944444444,-81.266944444444

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.

Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Hydrotalcite	Millerite
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Serpentine	Spinel	Talc

Anhydrite ()*	Antigorite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysotile ()*
Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Lizardite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Millerite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Stichtite ()*	Talc ()*

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 Au C Ca Cr Cu Fe H Mg Ni O Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Hydrotalcite Millerite
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Serpentine Spinel Talc

19 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
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)			1	31798	1588
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	31796	708
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	4000	2500	1	31799	9052
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			1	31801	27198
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	31795	951
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆			1	31796	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	31800	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	31801	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4000	2500	5	31797,31799,31800,31801,31803	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			1	31798	14640
Lizardite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	31796	359
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)			1	31798	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	31798	14899
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	4000	2500	1	31799	1066
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4000	2500	5	31797,31799,31800,31801,31803	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			1	31801	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			1	31803	5186
Stichtite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Mg₆Cr₂(CO₃)(OH)₁₆·4H₂O			1	31798	43
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂			2	31798,31802	3337

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Jen_0001444	4000	2500	Archean		age of mineralization									255064	Delnite Mine, Deloro Township, Porcupine Mining District, Timmins Area, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada	Delnite	Poulin et al. (2016)	10.3749/canmin.1500023	CM54_1147

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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