Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Carey Mine (Mackey Mine), Head Township, Renfrew Co., Ontario, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 555
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-555.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Carey Mine (Mackey Mine), Head Township, Renfrew Co., Ontario, Canada": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 46°11'25"N
Longitude: 77°49'5"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.190277777778,-77.818055555556

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.

Allanite	Clay	Columbite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Kaolinite	Mica	Monazite	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Zircon

Albite ()*	Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Anatase ()*	Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Hematite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*
Polycrase-(Y) ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Samarskite-(Y) ()*
Thorite ()*	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 Ca Ce Fe H K Na Nb O P S Si Ta Th Ti U Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Ce Fe H K Na Nb O P S Si Th Ti Y Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Clay Columbite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Kaolinite Mica Monazite None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rutile Spinel Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	706
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2162
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	414
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	4924
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Polycrase-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(Ti,Nb)₂(O,OH)₆	121
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	5614
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	YFe³⁺Nb₂O₈	353
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1006
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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