Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Bird River Sill, Manitoba, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2749.9
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2739.5

mindat Locality ID: 25007
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-25007.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bird River Sill, Manitoba, Canada": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Chrome Claim
Euclid Claim
Mayville Claim
Page Claim
Wards Claim
Wolf Claim

Latitude: 50°25'30"N
Longitude: 95°36'38"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.425,-95.610555555556

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.

Amphibole	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Corundum	Melonite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Serpentine	Spinel
Stillwaterite	Ullmannite

Actinolite ()*	Amesite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Hematite ()*
Hollingworthite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Irarsite ()*	Keithconnite ()*	Kotulskite ()*
Laurite ()*	Merenskyite ()*	Mertieite-II ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Rutheniridosmine ()*	Sperrylite ()*	Tremolite ()*

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 As Bi Ca Cr Cu Fe H Ir Mg O Os Pd Pt Rh Ru S Sb Si Te Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Bi Ca Fe H Ir Mg O Pd Pt Rh S Sb Si Te Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Chalcopyrite Clay Corundum Melonite Nickeline None Pyrite Serpentine Spinel
Stillwaterite Ullmannite

18 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
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2749.9	2739.5	0		3419
Amesite ()*	Clay Serpentine	Mg₂Al(AlSiO₅)(OH)₄	2749.9	2739.5	0		74
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2749.9	2739.5	1	30254	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	2749.9	2739.5	6	30254,30255,30256,30257,30258,30259	3902
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2749.9	2739.5	0		14640
Hollingworthite ()*	Ullmannite	RhAsS	2749.9	2739.5	0		119
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2749.9	2739.5	0		5433
Irarsite ()*	Pyrite	IrAsS	2749.9	2739.5	0		154
Keithconnite ()*	None	Pd₂₀Te₇	2749.9	2739.5	0		40
Kotulskite ()*	Nickeline	Pd(Te,Bi)_2-x (x ≈ 0.4)	2749.9	2739.5	0		116
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂	2749.9	2739.5	1	30254	226
Merenskyite ()*	Melonite	PdTe₂	2749.9	2739.5	0		155
Mertieite-II ()*	Stillwaterite	Pd₈Sb_2.5As_0.5	2749.9	2739.5	0		44
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2749.9	2739.5	1	30254	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2749.9	2739.5	1	30254	9056
Rutheniridosmine ()*	None	(Ir,Os,Ru)	2749.9	2739.5	1	30254	47
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	2749.9	2739.5	0		337
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2749.9	2739.5	0		2562

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
	EMG18_41-00001	2749.9	2739.5	2744.7±5.2	U-Pb			zircon				Zircon		Ni, Cu	25007	Bird River Sill, Manitoba, Canada	Bird River Sill	Good et al (2009)	10.2113/gsemg.18.1-4.41	EMG18_41

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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