Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Catherine Mountain Molybdenite Prospect, Catherine Mountain, Hancock Co., Maine, USA

mindat Locality ID: 6077
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-6077.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Catherine Mountain Molybdenite Prospect, Catherine Mountain, Hancock Co., Maine, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 44°37'1"N
Longitude: 68°4'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.616944444444,-68.080833333333

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	Arsenic	Beryl	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite
Mica	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Scheelite	Spinel	Stilbite

Albite ()*	Beryl ()*	Bismuth ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Epidote ()*
Ferberite ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Scheelite ()*	Stilbite-Ca ()*

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 Be Bi Ca F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O P S Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Be Bi Ca F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O P S Si W

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Arsenic Beryl Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite
Mica Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Scheelite Spinel Stilbite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	4286
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1966
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1756
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8173
Ferberite ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺(WO₄)	551
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	345
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9617
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	4894
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Stilbite	NaCa₄(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·28H₂O	268

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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