Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Dickens Township, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 255321
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-255321.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dickens Township, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Algonquin Mica Mines
Bambrick Mine
Davis Mine
Five Mile Mine
Plexman Mine
Spectacle Lake (Wolfsden Lake)

Latitude: 45°34'3"N
Longitude: 77°52'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.5675,-77.879722222222

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.

Clay	Columbite	Corundum	Feldspar	Fluorite	Mica	Monazite	None	Pyroxene	Quartz
Spinel	Sulphur	Titanite

Albite ()*	Augite ()*	Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Microcline ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Samarskite-(Y) ()*
Selenium ()*	Titanite ()*	Uraninite ()*

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 Ca Ce Fe H K Mg Na Nb O P Se Si Ta Th Ti U Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Columbite Corundum Feldspar Fluorite Mica Monazite None Pyroxene Quartz
Spinel Sulphur Titanite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	32679,32683	8803
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	32680	2060
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	3	32677,32679,32683	414
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	32678	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	32678,32681,32683	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	5	32678,32679,32680,32681,32683	4924
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	32679	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	32677,32679	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	32677,32678,32679,32680,32681,32683	61156
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	YFe³⁺Nb₂O₈	2	32679,32683	353
Selenium ()*	Sulphur	Se	1	32679	143
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	32680	4899
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	32679	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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