Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Bulun District, Polar Yakutia, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 174
Youngest recorded age at locality: 100

mindat Locality ID: 27898
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27898.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bulun District, Polar Yakutia, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Lena River Basin

Latitude: 63°21'0"N
Longitude: 138°24'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 63.35,138.4

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.

Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Diamond	Enargite	Humboldtine	None	Orpiment	Oxalate
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stepanovite	Stibnite	Wurtzite

Alabandite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Diamond ()*
Dolomite ()*	Enargite ()*	Glushinskite ()*	Gold ()*	Jamesonite ()*
Orpiment ()*	Quartz ()*	Realgar ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stepanovite ()*
Stibnite ()*	Weddellite ()*	Whewellite ()*	Zhemchuzhnikovite ()*

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 As Au C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mn Na O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Diamond Enargite Humboldtine None Orpiment Oxalate
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stepanovite Stibnite Wurtzite

19 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
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	174	100	1	103611	312
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	174	100	1	103613	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	174	100	3	103609,103610,103613	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	174	100	1	103613	27198
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	174	100	1	103608	697
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	174	100	2	103609,103610	9895
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	174	100	1	103613	910
Glushinskite ()*	Humboldtine Oxalate	Mg(C₂O₄)·2H₂O	174	100	1	103609	5
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	174	100	1	103608	30554
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	174	100	1	103613	784
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃	174	100	1	103613	511
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	174	100	1	103613	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	174	100	1	103613	712
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	174	100	1	103613	21482
Stepanovite ()*	Stepanovite Oxalate	NaMgFe³⁺(C₂O₄)₃·9H₂O	174	100	2	103609,103610	2
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	174	100	1	103613	3418
Weddellite ()*	Oxalate	Ca(C₂O₄)·2H₂O	174	100	2	103609,103610	32
Whewellite ()*	Oxalate	Ca(C₂O₄)·H₂O	174	100	2	103609,103610	66
Zhemchuzhnikovite ()*	Stepanovite Oxalate	NaMgAl(C₂O₄)₃·9H₂O	174	100	1	103609	1

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_362	Lena Coal Basin includes three major structures: Lena–Anabar and cis-Upper Yana basins and Vilyui syneclise. The coal varies from 700 m to 4000 m thick. Stepanovite occurs in thin veinlets in association with calcite, dolomite, whewellite, and weddellite.

1 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
	Michelle_362	174	100	Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous		Age of coal deposit									2763	Lena River Basin, Bulun District, Polar Yakutia, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia	Lena Coal Basin	Kashirtsev et al. (2010)	10.1016/j.rgg.2010.03.007	RGG51_404	Age of coal deposit

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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