Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Okuchi City, Kagoshima, Japan

mindat Locality ID: 280385
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-280385.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Okuchi City, Kagoshima, Japan": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Okuchi Mine (Oguchi 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.

Acanthite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite
Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Aguilarite ()*	Beidellite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Gold ()*	Hessite ()*	Naumannite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	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 Al Au Ca Cu Fe H Hg Na O S Sb Se Si Te Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite
Stibnite Tetrahedrite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	75388	2793
Aguilarite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₄SeS	1	75389	87
Beidellite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3Al₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	75388	85
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	75388	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	75389	2600
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	75388,75389	30554
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	1	75389	804
Naumannite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ag₂Se	1	75389	192
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	75388	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	75389	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	75389	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	75389	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	75389	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	75388	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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