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:
Kurashiki City, Okayama, Japan

Oldest recorded age at locality: 88
Youngest recorded age at locality: 81.2

mindat Locality ID: 228475
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-228475.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kurashiki City, Okayama, Japan": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Miyoshi Mine
Obie Mine

Latitude: 34°36'40"N
Longitude: 133°47'49"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.611111111111,133.79694444444

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	Arsenopyrite	Autunite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Quartz	Rocksalt
Rutile	Sphalerite

Acanthite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Galena ()*	Metazeunerite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Scorodite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Zeunerite ()*

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 As C Ca Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S Si Sn U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenopyrite Autunite Calcite Chalcopyrite Molybdenite Nickeline None Quartz Rocksalt
Rutile Sphalerite

13 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			1	76106	2793
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	88	81.2	1	76105	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	76106	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	88	81.2	1	76105	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	88	81.2	2	76105,76106	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	76106	24243
Metazeunerite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	88	81.2	1	76105	182
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	88	81.2	1	76105	5800
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			1	76106	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	88	81.2	2	76105,76106	61156
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	88	81.2	1	76105	1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			1	76106	21482
Zeunerite ()*	Autunite	Cu(UO₂)₂(AsO₄)₂·12H₂O	88	81.2	1	76105	185

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
	Kristen001931	88	81.2	84.6±3.4	K-Ar			muscovite	70TO-290			Muscovite			144101	Miyoshi Mine, Kurashiki City, Okayama, Japan	Miyoshi	Shibata and Ishihara (1974)	10.2113/gsecongeo.69.8.1207	EG69_1207

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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