Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Grand Forks, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 277134
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-277134.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Grand Forks, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Marble Quarry (Kettle River Rock Quarry)
Rock Candy Mine

Latitude: 49°8'45"N
Longitude: 118°26'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.145833333333,-118.43527777778

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.

Amphibole	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum
Covellite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine
Prehnite	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scapolite	Spinel	Titanite	Zircon
Zirconolite

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*
Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cordierite ()*
Covellite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Galena ()*
Geikielite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Meionite ()*
Monticellite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pargasite ()*	Phlogopite ()*
Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Spinel ()*	Titanite ()*	Zircon ()*	Zirconolite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O P Pb S Si Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Aragonite Baryte Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum
Covellite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Kaolinite Mica None Not in a structural group Olivine
Prehnite Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scapolite Spinel Titanite Zircon
Zirconolite

34 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	29679	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	29679	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	29678	2353
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	29678	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	29679	2060
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	29679	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	29678,29679	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	29679	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	29679	27198
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	29678	1008
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	29679	4165
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	29679	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	29679	9617
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	29678	1188
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	29679	24243
Geikielite ()*	Corundum	MgTiO₃	1	29678	70
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	1	29678	367
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	29679	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	29679	14899
Meionite ()*	Scapolite	Ca₄Al₆Si₆O₂₄(CO₃)	1	29678	176
Monticellite ()*	Olivine	CaMg(SiO₄)	1	29678	153
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	29679	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	29679	2349
Pargasite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Mg₄Al)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂	1	29678	313
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	29678	2273
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	29678	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	29679	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	29678,29679	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	29678	5614
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	29678	1516
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	29678	1934
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	29679	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	29679	5251
Zirconolite ()*	Zirconolite	(Ca,Y)Zr(Ti,Mg,Al)₂O₇	1	29678	140

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R040099	Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada	https://rruff.info/R040099

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