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:
Gay Mt, Gay, Orenburg Oblast, Russia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 408
Youngest recorded age at locality: 370

mindat Locality ID: 277695
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-277695.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gay Mt, Gay, Orenburg Oblast, Russia": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Kalinovskoe Jasper Deposit

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.

Clinozoisite	Epidote	None	Quartz

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 Ca Fe H O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clinozoisite Epidote None Quartz

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Epidote ()*	Quartz ()*

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
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	408	370	1	103112	8173
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	408	370	1	103112	61156

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Age Interpret	Age from other Locality	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
Kristen002463	408	393	Early Devonian (Emsian-patulus zone)	age of deposit	Yes	Cu, Zn	193979	Gay, Orenburg Oblast, Russia	Gai	Herrington et al. (2005)	10.1016/j.oregeorev.2005.07.014	OGR27_203
vms-00763	408	388	Early- Middle Devonian (Emsian-Eifelian)		Yes		175692	Gayskoe Zn-Cu Deposit (Gayskoye; Gaiskoye), Gay, Orenburg Oblast, Russia	Gaiskoe	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1034
L70_39-00002	400	370	400 to 380-370		Yes		193980	Ishkinino Co-Cu Deposit, Gay, Orenburg Oblast, Russia	Ishkinino	Tesalina et al. (2003)	10.1016/S0024-4937(03)00090-2	L70_39

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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