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Locality Name:
Eagle Crag Mine, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK

Oldest recorded age at locality: 245
Youngest recorded age at locality: 235

mindat Locality ID: 4751
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4751.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Eagle Crag Mine, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 54°31'8"N
Longitude: 2°59'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 54.518888888889,-2.9916666666667

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	Arsenic	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Ktenasite	Linarite	Malachite
None	Not in a structural group	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Anatase ()*	Antimony ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Bournonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Langite ()*	Linarite ()*	Malachite ()*
Mimetite ()*	Namuwite ()*	Rosasite ()*	Rutile ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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: As Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Arsenic Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Ktenasite Linarite Malachite
None Not in a structural group Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	245	235	2162
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	245	235	363
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	245	235	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	245	235	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	245	235	11547
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	245	235	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	245	235	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	245	235	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	245	235	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	245	235	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	245	235	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	245	235	1066
Langite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O	245	235	593
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	245	235	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	245	235	12537
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	245	235	1107
Namuwite ()*	Ktenasite	Zn₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·4H₂O	245	235	58
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	245	235	454
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	245	235	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	245	235	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	245	235	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	245	235	5317
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	245	235	1655

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
	JGS171_49_001	245	235	245-235	paleomag	age of hematite deposit					Yes		Hematite		25832	Cumbria, England, UK	Cumbria	Crowley et al. (2014)		JGS171_49

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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