Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Río Grande Department, Tierra Del Fuego Province, Argentina

Oldest recorded age at locality: 77
Youngest recorded age at locality: 73

mindat Locality ID: 239872
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-239872.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Río Grande Department, Tierra Del Fuego Province, Argentina": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Cabo San Sebastián
Carmen Sylva
El Páramo Peninsula

Latitude: 53°13'38"S
Longitude: 68°11'39"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -53.227222222222,-68.194166666667

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.

Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	None	Rutile	Spinel	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 Au Ca Fe H O Pt Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote None Rutile Spinel Zircon

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Epidote ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Platinum ()*	Rutile ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	77	73	1	3659	8173
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	77	73	3	3657,3659,3660	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	77	73	1	3659	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	77	73	1	3659	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	77	73	1	3659	14899
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	77	73	2	3657,3660	485
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	77	73	1	3659	5614
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	77	73	1	3659	5251

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Bradley_2012_060	77	73	75±2	U/Pb			zircon			Yes	Zircon			22995	Tierra Del Fuego Province, Argentina	[Rocas Verdes Basin]	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	10.3749/canmin.52.2.183	CM52_183

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