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Locality Name:
Canteen Township, St. Clair Co., Illinois, USA

mindat Locality ID: 299497
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-299497.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Canteen Township, St. Clair Co., Illinois, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Southwestern Illinois Area Underclay Prospect (Cheltenham Clay)

Latitude: 38°37'54"N
Longitude: 90°3'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.631666666667,-90.053888888889

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.

Clay	Fluorite	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz	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 Ca F Fe H K O S Si Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Fluorite Gypsum Kaolinite Mica None Pyrite Quartz Zircon

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Fluorite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	213538	9617
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	213538	6890
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	213538	5591
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	213538	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	213538	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	213538	61156
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	213538	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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