Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Bac Kan Province, Vietnam

mindat Locality ID: 25571
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-25571.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bac Kan Province, Vietnam": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Ba Be Deposit
Cho Don
Deo An Deposit
La Pointe Deposit
Lung Hoi Deposit

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum
Diaspore	Mica	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stannite
Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bournonite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Corundum ()*	Dolomite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stannite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Wurtzite ()*

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 Al As Au Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg O Pb S Sb Si Sn Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Au

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum
Diaspore Mica Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Stannite
Stibnite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	294708	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	294708	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	3	294708,294710,294714	9052
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	294708	1935
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1	294708	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	294708	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	294708	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	294708,294710,294714	27198
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	294707	1797
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	294708	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	294708,294710,294714	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	294708	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	0		30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	294710	2812
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	294708	1066
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	294708	14899
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	294707	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	294708,294710,294714	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2	294708,294710	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	294707,294708,294714	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	294708	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	294708,294710,294714	21482
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄	1	294708	668
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	294708	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	294708	5317
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	1	294708	372

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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