Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Ospwagan Lake & Paint Lake Area, Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1880
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1880

mindat Locality ID: 279424
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-279424.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ospwagan Lake & Paint Lake Area, Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba, Canada": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Pipe Lake Mine

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.

Clay	Cubanite	Diaspore	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Rutile	Serpentine	Sphalerite
Spinel	Wurtzite

Chromite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Froodite ()*	Goethite ()*	Graphite ()*
Lizardite ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Maucherite ()*	Nickeline ()*
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Rutile ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Violarite ()*

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: As Bi C Cr Cu Fe H Mg Ni O Pd S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Cubanite Diaspore Nickeline None Pentlandite Pyrite Rutile Serpentine Sphalerite
Spinel Wurtzite

16 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
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1880	1880	1	30654	3902
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1880	1880	1	30654	802
Froodite ()*	None	PdBi₂	1880	1880	1	30654	62
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1880	1880	1	30654	7437
Graphite ()*	None	C	1880	1880	1	30654	2812
Lizardite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1880	1880	1	30654	359
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1880	1880	1	30654	451
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1880	1880	1	30654	14899
Maucherite ()*	None	Ni₁₁As₈	1880	1880	1	30654	161
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	1880	1880	1	30654	633
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	1880	1880	1	30654	767
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1880	1880	1	30654	1512
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1880	1880	1	30654	9056
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1880	1880	1	30654	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1880	1880	1	30654	21482
Violarite ()*	Spinel	FeNi₂S₄	1880	1880	1	30654	380

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
	EG105_1057_016	1880	1880	1880							Yes			Ni, Cu, Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Os, Ru	212064	Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba, Canada	Thompson	Begg et al. (2010)	10.2113/econgeo.105.6.1057	EG105_1057

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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