Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Petersburg Borough, Alaska, USA

mindat Locality ID: 310025
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-310025.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Petersburg Borough, Alaska, USA": 59
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 56

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Kupreanof District
Kupreanof Island
Mitkof Island

Latitude: 56°40'51"N
Longitude: 133°27'33"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 56.680833333333,-133.45916666667

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Garnet
Molybdenite	Mordenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Spinel	Stilbite	Tetrahedrite

Almandine ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Barrerite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Epidote ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Hydrozincite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Mordenite ()*
Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stilbite-Na ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Witherite ()*

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 Cr Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na Ni O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Garnet
Molybdenite Mordenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Spinel Stilbite Tetrahedrite

29 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	132794	2353
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	4	132741,132764,132771,132787	9052
Barrerite ()*	Stilbite	Na₂(Si₇Al₂)O₁₈·6H₂O	1	132790	23
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	10	132737,132738,132743,132753,132756,132758,132765,132776,132778,132787	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	132751	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	11	132743,132751,132758,132759,132760,132762,132763,132765,132766,132770,132792	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	132763	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	17	132740,132746,132747,132750,132751,132753,132754,132757,132758,132760,132762,132766,132770,132771,132773,132785,132787	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	132773	3902
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	132760	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	132766	8173
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	1	132792	138
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	132768	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	18	132740,132741,132743,132745,132747,132753,132754,132755,132756,132758,132759,132760,132763,132767,132771,132776,132784,132787	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	132741,132744,132747,132764	30554
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	132763	1066
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	132792	1271
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	132750,132762,132773	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	132771	5800
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	2	132791,132792	405
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	132773	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	29	132740,132746,132747,132749,132750,132751,132752,132753,132754,132755,132756,132757,132758,132759,132760,132761,132762,132764,132766,132767,132769,132770,132771,132776,132777,132783,132784,132785,132786	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	7	132750,132753,132757,132766,132771,132773,132787	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	18	132740,132741,132742,132743,132744,132747,132748,132751,132752,132755,132759,132764,132766,132767,132771,132787,132791,132792	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	132763	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	24	132740,132741,132743,132745,132746,132747,132750,132754,132755,132756,132758,132759,132760,132762,132763,132767,132769,132770,132771,132776,132777,132784,132787,132789	21482
Stilbite-Na ()*	Stilbite	Na₉(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·28H₂O	1	132792	15
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	132763	5317
Witherite ()*	Aragonite	Ba(CO₃)	2	132765,132776	251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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