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:
Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, USA

mindat Locality ID: 51876
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-51876.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, USA": 26
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Abington
Bridgewater
Brockton
Duxbury
Hanson
Hingham
Hull
Kingston
Marion
Marshfield
Mattapoisett
Pembroke
Plymouth
Rochester
Scituate
West Bridgewater

Latitude: 42°1'27"N
Longitude: 70°49'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.024166666667,-70.833055555556

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	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Mica
Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Titanite	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Corundum ()*
Epidote ()*	Gold ()*	Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Titanite ()*
Zircon ()*

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 Au C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Feldspar Mica
Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Rutile Spinel Titanite Zircon

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# 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	1	219772	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	219764,219772	8803
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	219769	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	219769	27198
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	219776	1797
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	4	219764,219769,219772,219781	8173
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	219761	30554
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	219764	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	219764	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	219769	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	219772	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	219769	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	11	219761,219762,219764,219769,219772,219773,219774,219776,219780,219781,219783	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	219772	5614
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	219764,219772	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	219772	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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