Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Buttle Lake, Vancouver Island, Alberni Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 393
Youngest recorded age at locality: 359

mindat Locality ID: 43037
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-43037.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Buttle Lake, Vancouver Island, Alberni Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Gap Lens Deposit
H-W Mine (Myra Falls)
Lynx Mine
Myra Mine
Price Deposit

Latitude: 49°34'19"N
Longitude: 125°35'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.571944444444,-125.5975

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.

Analcime	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Covellite	Digenite	Epidote	Feldspar
Germanite	Mica	Natrolite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Talc	Tetrahedrite

Albite ()*	Analcime ()*	Anilite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Colusite ()*	Covellite ()*	Digenite ()*
Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Laumontite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Renierite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stromeyerite ()*	Talc ()*
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Wairakite ()*

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 Ca Cu Fe Ge H K Mg Na O Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Fe H Mg Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Baryte Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Covellite Digenite Epidote Feldspar
Germanite Mica Natrolite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Talc Tetrahedrite

27 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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	393	359	0		8803
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	393	359	0		1627
Anilite ()*	Digenite	Cu₇S₄	383	359	1	29516	88
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	383	359	3	29516,29517,29518	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	383	359	3	29516,29517,29518	5516
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	383	359	1	29517	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	383	359	3	29516,29517,29518	27198
Colusite ()*	Sphalerite Germanite	Cu₁₃VAs₃S₁₆	383	359	1	29516	110
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS			1	29518	4165
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S			1	29518	1027
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	393	359	0		8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	383	359	2	29517,29518	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	383	359	2	29517,29518	30554
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	393	359	0		1271
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	393	359	0		1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	383	359	3	29516,29517,29518	17380
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	393	359	0		1236
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	393	359	0		1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	383	359	3	29516,29517,29518	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	383	359	2	29517,29518	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	383	359	3	29516,29517,29518	61156
Renierite ()*	Sphalerite Germanite	(Cu¹⁺,Zn)₁₁Fe₄(Ge⁴⁺,As⁵⁺)₂S₁₆	383	359	1	29516	37
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	383	359	3	29516,29517,29518	21482
Stromeyerite ()*	None	CuAgS			1	29518	332
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	393	359	1	29518	3337
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	383	359	3	29516,29517,29518	1803
Wairakite ()*	Analcime	Ca(Si₄Al₂)O₁₂·2H₂O	393	359	0		73

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference ID
vms-00092	393	383	Middle Devonian		43037	Buttle Lake, Vancouver Island, Alberni Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada	Trumpeter	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1034
vms-00083	383	359	Late Devonian		496	H-W Mine (Myra Falls), Buttle Lake, Vancouver Island, Alberni Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada	Myra Falls-Lynx	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1034
vms-00084	370	370	Middle Devonian	S	208890	Price Deposit, Buttle Lake, Vancouver Island, Alberni Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada	Price	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1034

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