Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Shemonaikha, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan

Oldest recorded age at locality: 393
Youngest recorded age at locality: 372

mindat Locality ID: 275726
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-275726.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Shemonaikha, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Artemyevsky Mine
Nikolayevsky Mine (Nikolaevskaya; Nikolaevskoe; Nikolaevsky)

Latitude: 50°33'59"N
Longitude: 81°49'44"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.566388888889,81.828888888889

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	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Marcasite
Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Acanthite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bournonite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Greenockite ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	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 Ba C Ca Cd Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenopyrite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Marcasite
Mica None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

20 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	388	372	1	77262	2793
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	388	372	1	77262	9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	388	372	1	77262	11547
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	388	372	1	77262	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	388	372	1	77262	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	388	372	1	77262	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	388	372	1	77262	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	388	372	1	77262	4165
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	388	372	1	77262	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	388	372	1	77262	30554
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	388	372	1	77262	717
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	388	372	1	77262	784
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	388	372	1	77262	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	388	372	1	77262	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	388	372	1	77262	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	388	372	1	77262	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	388	372	1	77262	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	388	372	1	77262	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	388	372	1	77262	5317
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	388	372	1	77262	372

2 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
	vms-00619	393	383	Middle Devonian (Eifelian-Givetian)											275726	Shemonaikha, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan	Shemonaikhinskoe	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1034
	vms-00609	388	372	Middle-Upper Devonian (Givetian-Frasnian)											244626	Nikolayevsky Mine (Nikolaevskaya; Nikolaevskoe; Nikolaevsky), Shemonaikha, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan	Nikolaevskoe	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...