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:
Priske Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 254918
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-254918.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Priske Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Gold Range Mine
Harkness-Hays Mine (W.S.Jackson Claim)
McKellar-Longworth Mine (North Shore Gold Mine)
Otisse Claim

Latitude: 48°47'33"N
Longitude: 87°13'40"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.7925,-87.227777777778

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	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Diaspore	Epidote	Malachite	Molybdenite
Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Talc

Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*
Felsőbányaite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*
Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*

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 Au C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mo O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Diaspore Epidote Malachite Molybdenite
Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Talc

17 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	1	33475	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	33474,33475	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	33473,33474,33475	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	33474	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	33474	8173
Felsőbányaite ()*	None	Al₄(SO₄)(OH)₁₀·4H₂O	1	33474	66
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	33473,33474,33475,33476	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	33474	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	33473,33474,33475,33476	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	33476	2812
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	33475	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	33473,33474	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	33473,33474,33475	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2	33475,33476	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	33474,33475,33476	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	33474	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	33475	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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