Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Galway Township, Peterborough Co., Ontario, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 563
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-563.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Galway Township, Peterborough Co., Ontario, Canada": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Crystal Lake Fluoborite Occurrence
Crystal Lake Mine (Silver Crater Mine)
South Birchbark Occurrence
Tait Occurrence

Latitude: 44°45'20"N
Longitude: 78°31'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.755555555556,-78.528333333333

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.

Calcite	Feldspar	Fluorite	Humite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel
Titanite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Calcite ()*	Fluoborite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Graphite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Norbergite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Thorite ()*	Titanite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*
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 B C Ca F Fe H Mg Na O S Si Th Ti U Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Feldspar Fluorite Humite Nickeline 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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	32868,32869	8803
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	32869	27770
Fluoborite ()*	None	Mg₃(BO₃)F₃	1	32868	52
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	32868,32869	9617
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	32868	2812
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	32871	14899
Norbergite ()*	Humite	Mg₃(SiO₄)F₂	1	32868	37
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	32869	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	32868	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2	32868,32870	5614
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1	32869	1006
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	32869	4899
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	32871	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	32869	890
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	32869,32871	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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