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Locality Name:
Ust-Yansky District, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 201.6
Youngest recorded age at locality: 145.5

mindat Locality ID: 310343
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-310343.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ust-Yansky District, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Churpunya Deposit
Gal-Khaya As-Hg-Sb Deposit
Odinokoe Deposit
Omchikandya Deposit
Tirekhtyakh Deposit

Latitude: 69°48'11"N
Longitude: 141°1'54"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 69.803055555556,141.03166666667

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.

Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Fluorite
Galkhaite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Nowackiite	Orpiment
Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Sphalerite	Stannite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Aktashite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuth ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Dickite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galkhaite ()*	Getchellite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Metacinnabar ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Orpiment ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Realgar ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stannite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Wakabayashilite ()*

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 Al As Au Ba Bi C Ca Cs Cu F Fe H Hg Mg Mo O S Sb Si Sn Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite Fluorite
Galkhaite Kaolinite Malachite Marcasite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Nowackiite Orpiment
Pyrite Quartz Rutile Sphalerite Stannite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

36 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
Aktashite ()*	Nowackiite	Cu₆Hg₃As₄S₁₂	201.6	145.5	1	103653	22
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			2	103652,103654	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	201.6	145.5	1	103653	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	201.6	145.5	1	103653	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi			3	103652,103654,103655	1966
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	201.6	145.5	1	103653	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	201.6	145.5	1	103653	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂			4	103652,103654,103655,103656	5171
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	201.6	145.5	1	103653	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	201.6	145.5	2	103652,103653	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	201.6	145.5	1	103653	2600
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu			1	103652	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	201.6	145.5	1	103653	4165
Dickite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	201.6	145.5	1	103653	651
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	201.6	145.5	1	103653	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	201.6	145.5	1	103653	9617
Galkhaite ()*	Galkhaite Tetrahedrite	(Hg₅Cu)CsAs₄S₁₂	201.6	145.5	1	103653	13
Getchellite ()*	None	SbAsS₃	201.6	145.5	1	103653	19
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	201.6	145.5	1	103653	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			1	103652	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	201.6	145.5	1	103653	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	201.6	145.5	1	103653	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			1	103652	5674
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	201.6	145.5	1	103653	255
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			1	103654	5800
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃	201.6	145.5	1	103653	511
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	201.6	145.5	2	103652,103653	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			1	103652	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	201.6	145.5	2	103652,103653	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	201.6	145.5	1	103653	712
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			1	103652	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	201.6	145.5	1	103653	21482
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄			1	103652	668
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	201.6	145.5	1	103653	3418
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	201.6	145.5	1	103653	1803
Wakabayashilite ()*	None	(As,Sb)₆As₄S₁₄	201.6	145.5	1	103653	16

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
	Hg-00068	201.6	145.5		?-?								Aktashite	Hg	19989	Gal-Khaya As-Hg-Sb Deposit, Ust-Yansky District, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia		Parfenov et al. (1999); Stepanov and Moiseenko (2008)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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