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Locality Name:
McDame Creek, Liard Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 100
Youngest recorded age at locality: 71

mindat Locality ID: 281821
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-281821.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "McDame Creek, Liard Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Contact Group

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Fe Mn O Pb S Sb Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllargentumArsenicArsenopyriteMarcasiteNickelineNonePyriteRocksaltSphaleriteSpinel

11 IMA Minerals at location:
Alabandite  (*)Antimony  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Dyscrasite  (*)Galena  (*)
Magnetite  (*)Marcasite  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Alabandite  (*)RocksaltMnS7471129797312
Antimony  (*)ArsenicSb7471129797363
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS74711297979052
Dyscrasite  (*)AllargentumAg3+xSb1-x (x ≈ 0.2)7471129797180
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS747112979724243
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4747112979714899
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS274711297975674
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS374711297971425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2747112979739462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S874711297979056
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS747112979721482



2 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
sedznpb-00106100100100        281821McDame Creek, Liard Mining Division, British Columbia, CanadaMcDame BelleSinger et al. (2009) USGSOFR2009-1252 
sedznpb-00082747172.5±1.5        243642Contact Group, McDame Creek, Liard Mining Division, British Columbia, CanadaContactSinger et al. (2009) USGSOFR2009-1252 


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