Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Contact Group, McDame Creek, Liard Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 100
Youngest recorded age at locality: 71

mindat Locality ID: 243642
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-243642.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Contact Group, McDame Creek, Liard Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

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.

Allargentum	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Marcasite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	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: Ag As Fe Mn O Pb S Sb Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag As Fe Mn O Pb S Sb Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allargentum Arsenic Arsenopyrite Marcasite Nickeline None Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Alabandite ()*	Antimony ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Dyscrasite ()*	Galena ()*
Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	74	71	312
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	74	71	363
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	74	71	9052
Dyscrasite ()*	Allargentum	Ag_3+xSb_1-x (x ≈ 0.2)	74	71	180
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	74	71	24243
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	74	71	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	74	71	5674
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	74	71	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	74	71	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	74	71	9056
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	74	71	21482

2 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
	sedznpb-00106	100	100	100							Yes				281821	McDame Creek, Liard Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada	McDame Belle	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252
	sedznpb-00082	74	71	72.5±1.5											243642	Contact Group, McDame Creek, Liard Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada	Contact	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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