Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Needle Hill (Cham Shan), Sha Tin District, New Territories, Hong Kong, China

mindat Locality ID: 216651
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-216651.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Needle Hill (Cham Shan), Sha Tin District, New Territories, Hong Kong, China": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Needle Hill Mine

Latitude: 22°22'59"N
Longitude: 114°8'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 22.383055555556,114.14972222222

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.

Coronadite	Fluorite	Garnet	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

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 Ca F Fe K Mn Mo O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Fe K Mn O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Coronadite Fluorite Garnet Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Almandine ()*	Cryptomelane ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		2353
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	0		599
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	39846	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	39846	24243
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	39846	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	39846	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	39846	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	39846	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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