Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Divide Lake, Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 280767
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-280767.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Divide Lake, Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Betty Claim Group

Latitude: 56°12'27"N
Longitude: 129°58'32"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 56.2075,-129.97555555556

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.

Aragonite	Brochantite	Chalcopyrite	Diaspore	Linarite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Brochantite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Hydrozincite ()*	Linarite ()*	Malachite ()*	Naumannite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	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 C Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Se Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Brochantite Chalcopyrite Diaspore Linarite Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	30138	1633
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	30138	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	30138	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	30138	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	30138	7437
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	30138	1066
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	30138	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	30138	12537
Naumannite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ag₂Se	1	30138	192
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	30138	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	30138	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	30138	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	30138	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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