Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Eastern Province, Zambia

mindat Locality ID: 123098
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-123098.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Eastern Province, Zambia": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Kinyanfumbe
Chipata District
Katete District
Lundazi District

Latitude: 13°7'11"S
Longitude: 32°35'8"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -13.119722222222,32.585555555556

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.

Beryl	Clay	Corundum	Feldspar	Garnet	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz
Rutile	Sapphirine	Tourmaline

Albite ()*	Beryl ()*	Elbaite ()*	Fluor-elbaite ()*	Foitite ()*
Heterogenite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Malachite ()*	Microcline ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrope ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Schorl ()*
Surinamite ()*

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 B Be C Co Cu F Fe H K Li Mg Na O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Beryl Clay Corundum Feldspar Garnet Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Quartz
Rutile Sapphirine Tourmaline

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	295056,295060	8803
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	2	295056,295059	4286
Elbaite ()*	Tourmaline	Na(Al_1.5Li_1.5)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	2	295059,295060	520
Fluor-elbaite ()*	Tourmaline	Na(Li_1.5Al_1.5)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃F	1	295060	31
Foitite ()*	Tourmaline	(Fe²⁺₂Al)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	295059	75
Heterogenite ()*	None	Co³⁺O(OH)	1	295058	111
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	295061	5433
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	295054	1507
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	295058	12537
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	295056	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	295056	17380
Pyrope ()*	Garnet	Mg₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	295059	341
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	295054,295056,295060,295061	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	295052	5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	2	295060,295061	2705
Surinamite ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₃Al₃O(Si₃BeAlO₁₅)	1	295054	8

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R070077	Canary, Lundazi District, Eastern Province, Zambia	https://rruff.info/R070077

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