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:
Lake Chelan, Chelan Co., Washington, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24183
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24183.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lake Chelan, Chelan Co., Washington, USA": 35
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 26

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
25 Mile Creek
Meadow Creek District
Sevenmile Creek
Stehekin

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.

Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Fluorite	Kaolinite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Diaphorite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	Stibnite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Fluorite Kaolinite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	5	283689,283692,283693,283696,283701	9052
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	9	283680,283683,283688,283692,283693,283696,283697,283698,283701	27198
Diaphorite ()*	None	Ag₃Pb₂Sb₃S₈	1	283675	126
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	283675	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	283673	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	283678,283683,283699,283702	24243
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	283680	5591
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	283674	1507
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	4	283681,283682,283686,283702	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	9	283682,283683,283686,283689,283696,283697,283698,283702,283704	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	10	283680,283682,283686,283688,283692,283693,283696,283697,283698,283701	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	283681,283682,283686,283689,283698,283701,283702	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	283689,283696	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	1	283675	586
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	283704	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	283681	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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