Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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.

Locality Name:
Ashcroft, Kamloops Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 481
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-481.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ashcroft, Kamloops Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Barnes Lake Area
Venables Valley

Latitude: 50°36'2"N
Longitude: 121°21'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.600555555556,-121.35833333333

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.

Amorphous	Epsomite	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Tridymite

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: Ca H Mg O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Epsomite Gypsum None Not in a structural group Quartz Tridymite

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Epsomite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Ice ()*	Meridianiite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	29703	484
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	29701	6890
Ice ()*	Amorphous Tridymite	H₂O	1	29703	59
Meridianiite ()*	Not in a structural group	Mg(SO₄)·11H₂O	1	29703	3
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R070589	Basque Claims, Venables Valley, Ashcroft, Kamloops Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada	https://rruff.info/R070589

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