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:
Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi

mindat Locality ID: 125832
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-125832.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Tambani Area

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

None	Tridymite	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 K Na O Si Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
None Tridymite Zircon

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Nepheline ()*	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
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)			1	79945	884
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)			1	79943	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
X050181	Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi	https://rruff.info/X050181

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