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:
Maria-Chapdelaine RCM, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 879
Youngest recorded age at locality: 879

mindat Locality ID: 229768
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-229768.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Maria-Chapdelaine RCM, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Crevier Alkaline Complex
Delise Mine
Girardville

Latitude: 49°11'58"N
Longitude: 72°11'19"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.199444444444,-72.188611111111

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.

Apatite	Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Corundum	Feldspar	Fluorite	Mica	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Tridymite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Calcite ()*	Chamosite ()*	Diopside ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorcalciopyrochlore ()*	Fluorite ()*	Fluornatropyrochlore ()*	Hematite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*	Nepheline ()*	Phlogopite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	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 C Ca F Fe H K Mg Na Nb O P Pb REE S Si Ti U Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Calcite Chlorite Clay Corundum Feldspar Fluorite Mica Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Spinel Tridymite Zircon

20 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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)			1	35034	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂			1	35033	2162
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	35033	27770
Chamosite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Fe²⁺,Mg,Al,Fe³⁺)₆(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH,O)₈			1	35033	577
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆			1	35031	4135
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	879	879	2	35030,35033	2740
Fluorcalciopyrochlore ()*	None	(Ca,Na)₂(Nb,Ti)₂O₆F	879	879	1	35030	18
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			1	35033	9617
Fluornatropyrochlore ()*	None	(Na,Pb,Ca,REE,U)₂Nb₂O₆F			1	35033	10
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			2	35033,35034	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	879	879	3	35030,35033,35034	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			2	35033,35034	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	35033	4924
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	879	879	1	35030	884
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂			2	35031,35033	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			1	35031	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	879	879	2	35030,35031	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			1	35033	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			1	35033	5614
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)			1	35033	5251

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Jen_0000997	MAGMATIC STYLE: Sheets within syenites. ASSOCIATED SILICATE ROCKS: Nepheline syenite, syenite and fenite.

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_0000997	879	879	879	K-Ar										257584	Crevier Alkaline Complex, Maria-Chapdelaine RCM, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada	Crevier	Woolley and Kjarsgaard (2008)	10.4095/225115	GSCOF5796

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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