Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Champion Mine, Painesdale, Houghton Co., Michigan, USA

mindat Locality ID: 3850
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3850.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Champion Mine, Painesdale, Houghton Co., Michigan, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Champion No. 3 Shaft

Latitude: 47°2'7"N
Longitude: 88°40'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.035277777778,-88.670555555556

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.

Andalusite	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Digenite	Domeykite	Epidote	Gadolinite	Gypsum
Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz

Algodonite ()*	Anilite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Callaghanite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Copper ()*	Datolite ()*	Domeykite ()*	Epidote ()*
Gypsum ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Olivenite ()*	Posnjakite ()*
Quartz ()*	Silver ()*

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 B C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Digenite Domeykite Epidote Gadolinite Gypsum
Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Quartz

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Algodonite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu_1-xAs_x (x ≈ 0.15)	0		41
Anilite ()*	Digenite	Cu₇S₄	0		88
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	0		5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0		27770
Callaghanite ()*	None	Cu₂Mg₂(CO₃)(OH)₆·2H₂O	0		9
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	0		5707
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	0		3846
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	1	220604	498
Domeykite ()*	Domeykite	Cu₃As	0		73
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		8173
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	0		6890
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	0		12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	0		17380
Olivenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(AsO₄)(OH)	0		492
Posnjakite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·H₂O	0		309
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	0		5186

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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