Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Moriah Township, Mineville District, Essex Co., New York, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1035
Youngest recorded age at locality: 541

mindat Locality ID: 29291
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29291.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Moriah Township, Mineville District, Essex Co., New York, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Cheever Mine
Hall's Mine (Hall's Falls Pegmatite)
Mineville
Moriah
Treadway Quarry

Latitude: 44°3'53"N
Longitude: 73°29'15"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.064722222222,-73.4875

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.

Allanite	Amphibole	Apatite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote
Fluorite	Mica	Monazite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel
Titanite	Tourmaline	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite-(Y) ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Augite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorapatite ()*	Edenite ()*	Epidote ()*
Ferro-actinolite ()*	Ferro-hornblende ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Graphite ()*
Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kainosite-(Y) ()*	Magnetite ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*
Muscovite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Schorl ()*	Stillwellite-(Ce) ()*	Thorite ()*	Titanite ()*
Zircon ()*

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 B C Ca Ce Cl Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O P S Si Th Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Cl O P

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Amphibole Apatite Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote
Fluorite Mica Monazite Nickeline None Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Spinel
Titanite Tourmaline Zircon

31 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
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1035	1009	1	247933	3419
Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1035	1009	1	247933	706
Allanite-(Y) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaY(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1035	1009	1	247933	28
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1035	1009	1	247942	9052
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1035	1009	2	247942,247946	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	247946	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			1	247946	27198
Chlorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1035	1009	0		203
Edenite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂Mg₅(Si₇Al)O₂₂(OH)₂	1035	1009	1	247933	160
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1035	1009	1	247933	8173
Ferro-actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_2.5-0.0Fe²⁺_2.5-5.0)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1035	1009	1	247933	129
Ferro-hornblende ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Fe²⁺₄Al)(Si₇Al)O₂₂(OH)₂			1	247946	271
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1035	1009	3	247933,247941,247946	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1035	1009	3	247936,247941,247942	9617
Graphite ()*	None	C	1035	1009	3	247944,247946,247947	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1035	1009	2	247933,247942	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1035	1009	1	247933	5433
Kainosite-(Y) ()*	None	Ca₂Y₂(SiO₃)₄(CO₃)·H₂O	1035	1009	1	247933	99
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1035	1009	10	247931,247933,247935,247936,247938,247939,247940,247941,247942,247943	14899
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1035	1009	1	247933	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1035	1009	1	247942	17380
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂			2	247946,247947	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1035	1009	3	247942,247944,247946	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			1	247946	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1035	1009	3	247932,247933,247942	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			1	247947	5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)			1	247932	2705
Stillwellite-(Ce) ()*	None	CeBSiO₅	1035	1009	1	247933	19
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1035	1009	1	247933	1006
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1035	1009	2	247933,247942	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1035	1009	3	247932,247933,247941	5251

2 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
	Bradley_2012_051	1035	1009	1022±13	U/Pb			zircon				Zircon			6417	Mineville, Moriah Township, Mineville District, Essex Co., New York, USA	Mineville	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	10.3749/canmin.52.2.183	CM52_183
	ree-00675	541	541	Precambrian			low								6417	Mineville, Moriah Township, Mineville District, Essex Co., New York, USA	Mineville dumps	Orris and Grauch (2002)		USGSOFR02_189

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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