Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Conical Seamount, Lihir Island Area, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea

Oldest recorded age at locality: 0.35
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0.1

mindat Locality ID: 28680
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-28680.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Conical Seamount, Lihir Island Area, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 3°18'30"S
Longitude: 152°39'30"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -3.3083333333333,152.65833333333

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.

Alunite	Apatite	Aragonite	Atacamite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Covellite
Digenite	Geocronite	Kaolinite	Lepidocrocite	Marcasite	Nadorite	None	Not in a structural group	Orpiment	Pyrite
Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Starkeyite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Alacránite ()*	Alunite ()*	Anatase ()*	Anglesite ()*	Atacamite ()*
Baryte ()*	Böhmite ()*	Bonazziite ()*	Bornite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Corundum ()*	Covellite ()*	Digenite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Hedyphane ()*	Hematite ()*	Jordanite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Nadorite ()*	Natroalunite ()*	Orpiment ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Realgar ()*	Rozenite ()*	Rutile ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stibiconite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	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: Al As Au Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Au Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Aragonite Atacamite Baryte Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite
Digenite Geocronite Kaolinite Lepidocrocite Marcasite Nadorite None Not in a structural group Orpiment Pyrite
Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Starkeyite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

35 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Alacránite ()*	Not in a structural group	As₈S₉	0.35	0.1	18
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0.35	0.1	966
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	0.35	0.1	2162
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	0.35	0.1	2734
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	0.35	0.1	544
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0.35	0.1	11547
Böhmite ()*	Lepidocrocite	AlO(OH)	0.35	0.1	195
Bonazziite ()*	None	As₄S₄	0.35	0.1	5
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	0.35	0.1	5516
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	0.35	0.1	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0.35	0.1	27198
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	0.35	0.1	1797
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	0.35	0.1	4165
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	0.35	0.1	1027
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	0.35	0.1	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	0.35	0.1	30554
Hedyphane ()*	Apatite	Ca₂Pb₃(AsO₄)₃Cl	0.35	0.1	48
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0.35	0.1	14640
Jordanite ()*	Geocronite	Pb₁₄As₆S₂₃	0.35	0.1	105
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	0.35	0.1	5591
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	0.35	0.1	5674
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	0.35	0.1	1508
Nadorite ()*	Nadorite	PbSb³⁺O₂Cl	0.35	0.1	18
Natroalunite ()*	Alunite	NaAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0.35	0.1	128
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃	0.35	0.1	511
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0.35	0.1	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0.35	0.1	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	0.35	0.1	712
Rozenite ()*	Starkeyite	Fe²⁺(SO₄)·4H₂O	0.35	0.1	293
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	0.35	0.1	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	0.35	0.1	21482
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	0.35	0.1	446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	0.35	0.1	3418
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	0.35	0.1	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	0.35	0.1	5317

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
	AJES44_373-00022	0.35	0.1	0.35-0.1							Yes			Au	27932	Ladolam Au Deposit (Lihir Mine), Lihir Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea	Ladolam	Sillitoe (1997)	10.1080/08120099708728318	AJES44_373

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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