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Locality Name:
South Sherbrooke Township, Lanark Co., Ontario, Canada


mindat Locality ID: 244634
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-244634.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "South Sherbrooke Township, Lanark Co., Ontario, Canada": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Buchanan Occurrence
Bygrove Mine
Christies Lake Mine
Fournier Mine
Morran Mine
Orser-Kraft Occurrence (Maberly)
Silver Lake Iron Mine

Latitude: 44°47'47"N
Longitude: 76°30'18"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.796388888889,-76.505

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: C Ca Ce Cu Fe H Mg Nb O S Si Ta Th Ti U Y Zr 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AmphiboleBranneriteCalciteChalcopyriteColumbiteCorundumFluoriteNonePyritePyroxene
QuartzSpinelZircon

14 IMA Minerals at location:
Augite  (*)Brannerite  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Dolomite  (*)
Euxenite-(Y)  (*)Hematite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Thorite  (*)Tremolite  (*)Uraninite  (*)Zircon  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Augite  (*)Pyroxene(Ca,Mg,Fe)2Si2O61325252060
Brannerite  (*)BranneriteUTi2O6132524248
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)432522,32523,32524,3252627770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS213252527198
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)21325239895
Euxenite-(Y)  (*)ColumbiteY(NbTi)O6132527414
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O313252314640
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4732522,32523,32524,32525,32526,32527,3252814899
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2632523,32524,32525,32526,32527,3252839462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2232526,3252761156
Thorite  (*)ZirconTh(SiO4)1325241006
Tremolite  (*)Amphibole   Ca2(Mg5.0-4.5Fe2+0.0-0.5)Si8O22(OH)21325242562
Uraninite  (*)FluoriteUO21325242718
Zircon  (*)ZirconZr(SiO4)1325275251



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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