Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Nahanni River Area, Mackenzie Mts, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 485
Youngest recorded age at locality: 358.9

mindat Locality ID: 277811
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-277811.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nahanni River Area, Mackenzie Mts, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
NUG 4 Claim
Prairie Creek

Latitude: 62°5'53"N
Longitude: 127°3'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 62.098055555556,-127.05027777778

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	Aragonite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Covellite	Diaspore
Ktenasite	Malachite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite
Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*
Bindheimite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bournonite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Christelite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Covellite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Russellite ()*	Scheelite ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 As Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Hg Mg O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Aragonite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Covellite Diaspore
Ktenasite Malachite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite
Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

28 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	485	408	1	31075	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	485	408	1	31075	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	382.7	358.9	1	31074	9052
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	485	408	1	31075	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	485	408	1	31075	5509
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	485	408	1	31075	450
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	382.7	358.9	1	31074	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	382.7	358.9	1	31074	1935
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	485	408	1	31075	1089
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	485	408	1	31075	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	485	358.9	2	31074,31075	27198
Christelite ()*	Ktenasite	Zn₃Cu₂(SO₄)₂(OH)₆·4H₂O	485	408	1	31075	5
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	485	408	1	31075	2600
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	485	408	1	31075	4165
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	485	408	1	31075	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	485	408	1	31075	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	485	408	1	31075	7437
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	485	408	1	31075	1066
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	485	408	1	31075	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	485	358.9	2	31074,31075	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	382.7	358.9	1	31074	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	485	358.9	2	31074,31075	61156
Russellite ()*	None	Bi₂WO₆	382.7	358.9	1	31074	40
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	382.7	358.9	1	31074	4894
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	485	408	1	31075	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	485	408	1	31075	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	485	408	1	31075	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	485	408	1	31075	5317

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Age Interpret	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
Jen_0001458	382.7	358.9	Late Devonian	age of associated magmatism	106895	NUG 4 Claim, Nahanni River Area, Mackenzie Mts, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada	NUG-4 Claim	Poulin et al. (2016)	10.3749/canmin.1500023	CM54_1147
sedexmvt-00074	485	470	Early Ordovician	host rock age	247048	Prairie Creek, Nahanni River Area, Mackenzie Mts, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada	Prairie Creek	Taylor et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1297
sedznpb-00123	458	408	L. Ordovician –E. Silurian		247048	Prairie Creek, Nahanni River Area, Mackenzie Mts, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada	Prairie Creek	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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