Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Bay Of Fundy, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada

mindat Locality ID: 6822
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-6822.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bay Of Fundy, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Amethyst Cove (Captain Kidd's Cove)
Black Rock
Canada Creek
Cape Blomidon
Cape Split
Chipman Brook
Halls Harbour
Harbourville
Long Beach
Morden
Ross Creek
Victoria Harbour

Latitude: 45°12'23"N
Longitude: 64°38'17"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.206388888889,-64.638055555556

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.

Analcime	Apophyllite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Gmelinite	Gypsum
Gyrolite	Heulandite	Malachite	Mica	Mordenite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Ramsdellite
Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Stilbite	Thomsonite

Analcime ()*	Barrerite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celadonite ()*
Clinoptilolite-Ca ()*	Clinoptilolite-Na ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Epistilbite ()*
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Fluorapophyllite-(Na) ()*	Gmelinite-Ca ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Gyrolite ()*	Hematite ()*	Heulandite-Ca ()*	Heulandite-K ()*	Laumontite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Mesolite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Mordenite ()*
Natrolite ()*	Okenite ()*	Quartz ()*	Ramsdellite ()*	Stellerite ()*
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Tenorite ()*	Thomsonite-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 Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Apophyllite Baryte Calcite Clay Copper Corundum Diaspore Gmelinite Gypsum
Gyrolite Heulandite Malachite Mica Mordenite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Quartz Ramsdellite
Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Stilbite Thomsonite

33 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	5	31319,31322,31323,31325,31327	1627
Barrerite ()*	Stilbite	Na₂(Si₇Al₂)O₁₈·6H₂O	2	31328,31331	23
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	31328	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	7	31319,31320,31323,31326,31328,31329,31332	27770
Celadonite ()*	Mica Clay	KMgFe³⁺Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	8	31319,31320,31322,31323,31325,31326,31328,31332	309
Clinoptilolite-Ca ()*	Heulandite	Ca₃(Si₃₀Al₆)O₇₂·20H₂O	2	31328,31329	33
Clinoptilolite-Na ()*	Heulandite	Na₆(Si₃₀Al₆)O₇₂·20H₂O	1	31328	24
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3	31319,31323,31328	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	31319	2970
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	3	31322,31328,31329	138
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	3	31322,31323,31328	303
Fluorapophyllite-(Na) ()*	Apophyllite	NaCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	1	31328	10
Gmelinite-Ca ()*	Gmelinite	Ca₂(Si₈Al₄)O₂₄·11H₂O	2	31319,31322	20
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	3	31319,31320,31329	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	31322	6890
Gyrolite ()*	Gyrolite	NaCa₁₆(Si₂₃Al)O₆₀(OH)₈·14H₂O	3	31320,31321,31324	142
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	31319,31328	14640
Heulandite-Ca ()*	Heulandite	(Ca,Na,K)₅(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·26H₂O	3	31327,31328,31329	246
Heulandite-K ()*	Heulandite	(K,Ca,Na)₅(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·26H₂O	1	31328	32
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	9	31319,31320,31321,31324,31325,31326,31327,31329,31332	1271
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	31319	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	31319,31323,31329	12537
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	5	31319,31321,31326,31328,31332	425
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	31324	1508
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	11	31320,31321,31322,31323,31324,31325,31326,31328,31329,31330,31331	405
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	6	31319,31322,31323,31326,31327,31329	1236
Okenite ()*	None	Ca₁₀Si₁₈O₄₆·18H₂O	1	31328	71
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	11	31319,31320,31322,31323,31325,31326,31327,31328,31329,31330,31331	61156
Ramsdellite ()*	Ramsdellite	MnO₂	1	31323	88
Stellerite ()*	Stilbite	Ca₄(Si₂₈Al₈)O₇₂·28H₂O	2	31328,31329	189
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Stilbite	NaCa₄(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·28H₂O	4	31322,31327,31328,31329	268
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	31323	1101
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	2	31319,31322	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R061118	Chipman Brook, Bay Of Fundy, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada	https://rruff.info/R061118
R050012	Harbourville, Bay Of Fundy, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada	https://rruff.info/R050012

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