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:
Blake Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 255426
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-255426.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blake Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Prince's Mine

Latitude: 48°7'54"N
Longitude: 89°18'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.131666666667,-89.313611111111

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.

Acanthite	Baryte	Calcite	Copper	Fluorite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Vivianite

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 Ba C Ca Co Cu F H O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Baryte Calcite Copper Fluorite Malachite None Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Vivianite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Erythrite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Malachite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Xonotlite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	33289	2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	33289	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	33289	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	33289	27770
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	33289	814
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	33289	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	33289	24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	33289	12537
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	33289	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	33289	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	33289	21482
Xonotlite ()*	None	Ca₆Si₆O₁₇(OH)₂	1	33289	109

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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