Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Osway Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 261040
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-261040.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Osway Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Jerome Mine

Latitude: 47°37'21"N
Longitude: 82°14'20"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.6225,-82.238888888889

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.

Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Bi Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Pyrite
Rocksalt Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

12 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	33220	9052
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	33220	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	33220	1935
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	33220	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	33220	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	33220	30554
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	33220	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	33220	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	33220	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	33220	9056
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	33220	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	33220	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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