Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Oxide Mine, Salmo, Nelson Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 272586
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-272586.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Oxide Mine, Salmo, Nelson Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

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.

Apatite	Calcite	Hopeite	None	Not in a structural group	Parahopeite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tarbuttite

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: C Ca Cl H O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Cl H O P Pb S Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Calcite Hopeite None Not in a structural group Parahopeite Rocksalt Sphalerite Tarbuttite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Galena ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hopeite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*
Parahopeite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tarbuttite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1689
Hopeite ()*	Hopeite	Zn₃(PO₄)₂·4H₂O	29
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1066
Parahopeite ()*	Parahopeite	Zn₃(PO₄)₂·4H₂O	11
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1725
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Tarbuttite ()*	Tarbuttite	Zn₂(PO₄)(OH)	11

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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