Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

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.

Amphibole	Apatite	Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Corundum	Dumortierite	Feldspar
Garnet	Gypsum	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile
Serpentine	Spinel	Talc	Titanite	Tourmaline

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Andradite ()*	Beryl ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Cookeite ()*	Corundum ()*
Cummingtonite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Dumortierite ()*	Elbaite ()*
Ferrosilite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Graphite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Microcline ()*
Muscovite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Riebeckite ()*
Rutile ()*	Schorl ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spodumene ()*	Talc ()*
Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*

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 B Be C Ca Cu F Fe H K Li Mg Na O P S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Corundum Dumortierite Feldspar
Garnet Gypsum Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile
Serpentine Spinel Talc Titanite Tourmaline

37 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	70	70	1	231254	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	70	70	3	231254,231257,231278	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	70	70	3	231279,231320,231321	2353
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	70	70	1	231254	1534
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	70	70	1	231278	4286
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	70	70	3	231254,231267,231281	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	70	70	5	231303,231304,231305,231306,231307	27198
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	70	70	2	231296,231298	951
Cookeite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Al,Li)₃Al₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₈	70	70	1	231278	181
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	70	70	1	231279	1797
Cummingtonite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	70	70	1	231254	327
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	70	70	1	231254	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	70	70	7	231251,231267,231269,231271,231276,231281,231282	9895
Dumortierite ()*	Dumortierite	AlAl₆BSi₃O₁₈	70	70	1	231257	231
Elbaite ()*	Tourmaline	Na(Al_1.5Li_1.5)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	70	70	1	231278	520
Ferrosilite ()*	Pyroxene	Fe²⁺₂Si₂O₆	70	70	1	231254	84
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	70	70	1	231278	2740
Graphite ()*	None	C	70	70	4	231259,231269,231281,231290	2812
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	70	70	1	231290	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	70	70	2	231254,231261	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	70	70	1	231278	5433
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	70	70	1	231281	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	70	70	2	231254,231261	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	70	70	1	231308	12537
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	70	70	6	231254,231257,231278,231316,231317,231318	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	70	70	2	231257,231278	17380
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	70	70	6	231251,231269,231271,231276,231281,231282	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	70	70	2	231281,231344	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	70	70	9	231244,231254,231257,231261,231265,231271,231276,231278,231281	61156
Riebeckite ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Fe²⁺₃Fe³⁺₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	70	70	1	231254	375
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	70	70	1	231290	5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	70	70	2	231257,231278	2705
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	70	70	11	231254,231256,231277,231329,231330,231331,231332,231333,231334,231335,231336	1516
Spodumene ()*	Pyroxene	LiAlSi₂O₆	70	70	1	231278	688
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	70	70	20	231244,231245,231248,231249,231251,231258,231259,231262,231266,231267,231269,231270,231271,231272,231275,231276,231281,231282,231290,231344	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	70	70	1	231269	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	70	70	6	231251,231254,231267,231271,231276,231281	2562

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
	Mo-00186	70	70								Yes		Molybdenite, Powellite, Wulfenite	Mo	23236	Madison Co., Montana, USA	Madison County	Gammons et al. (2006)	10.1007/s10230-006-0113-7	MWE25_70

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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