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:
Soab Lake Mine, Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1880
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1880

mindat Locality ID: 23145
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-23145.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Soab Lake Mine, Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba, Canada": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Soab North
Soab South

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Chalcopyrite	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Spinel

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: Cu Fe Ni O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe Ni S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Nickeline None Pentlandite Pyrite Spinel

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Violarite ()*

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
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1880	1880	2	30658,30659	27198
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1880	1880	2	30658,30659	14899
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1880	1880	2	30658,30659	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1880	1880	2	30658,30659	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1880	1880	2	30658,30659	9056
Violarite ()*	Spinel	FeNi₂S₄	1880	1880	0		380

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
	EG105_1057_016	1880	1880	1880							Yes			Ni, Cu, Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Os, Ru	212064	Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba, Canada	Thompson	Begg et al. (2010)	10.2113/econgeo.105.6.1057	EG105_1057

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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