Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Shoukawa-cho, Takayama City, Gifu, Japan

Oldest recorded age at locality: 66
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2.6

mindat Locality ID: 262656
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-262656.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Shoukawa-cho, Takayama City, Gifu, Japan": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Akatani Mine
Mumaya Mine (Mumaya Gold Mine)
Shoukawa Mine

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.

Arsenopyrite	Copper	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Sphalerite

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: As Au Ca Fe H O S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Copper None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Sphalerite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Gold ()*	Hedenbergite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	66	2.6	1	74515	9052
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	66	2.6	2	74515,74516	30554
Hedenbergite ()*	Pyroxene	CaFe²⁺Si₂O₆	66	2.6	1	74517	741
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	66	2.6	1	74517	1689
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	66	2.6	1	74517	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	66	2.6	1	74515	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	66	2.6	1	74517	21482

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedznpb-00284	66	2.6	Tertiary?											262656	Shoukawa-cho, Takayama City, Gifu, Japan	Shokawa	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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