Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Pen-Shan Ore Body, Chinkuashih Mine (Jinguashi Mine; Kinkwaseki Mine; Kinkaseki Mine), Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province, Taiwan

mindat Locality ID: 8084
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-8084.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pen-Shan Ore Body, Chinkuashih Mine (Jinguashi Mine; Kinkwaseki Mine; Kinkaseki Mine), Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province, Taiwan": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 25°6'21"N
Longitude: 121°51'34"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 25.105833333333,121.85944444444

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Enargite	Geocronite	Melonite	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stannite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Alunite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bournonite ()*	Calaverite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Enargite ()*	Famatinite ()*
Galena ()*	Geocronite ()*	Gold ()*	Gratonite ()*	Luzonite ()*
Mercury ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scorodite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 As Au Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K O Pb S Sb Si Te Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Au Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K O Pb S Sb Si Te Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Enargite Geocronite Melonite None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stannite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	966
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11547
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1089
Calaverite ()*	Melonite	AuTe₂	361
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	2600
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	910
Famatinite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃SbS₄	163
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Geocronite ()*	Geocronite	Pb₁₄Sb₆S₂₃	133
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	30554
Gratonite ()*	None	Pb₉As₄S₁₅	24
Luzonite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃AsS₄	198
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	397
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060390	Pen-Shan Ore Body, Chinkuashih Mine (Jinguashi Mine; Kinkwaseki Mine; Kinkaseki Mine), Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province, Taiwan	https://rruff.info/R060390

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