Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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.

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.

Amorphous	Amphibole	Beryl	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corrensite	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote
Feldspar	Garnet	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Scacchite
Serpentine	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Staurolite	Talc	Titanite	Tourmaline	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Andradite ()*	Anthophyllite ()*
Antigorite ()*	Beryl ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Corundum ()*	Enstatite ()*
Epidote ()*	Goethite ()*	Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hercynite ()*
Hydrobiotite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Lawrencite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Pargasite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Schorl ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Spessartine ()*	Spinel ()*	Staurolite ()*	Talc ()*	Titanite ()*
Tremolite ()*	Vermiculite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*	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 B Be C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Mn Na O P Si Ti Y Zr

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Amphibole Beryl Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Corrensite Corundum Diaspore Epidote
Feldspar Garnet Kaolinite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Scacchite
Serpentine Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Staurolite Talc Titanite Tourmaline Zircon

39 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	281504,281534	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	4	281535,281557,281561,281566	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	4	281462,281478,281510,281535	2353
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	281535	1534
Anthophyllite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	281449,281535	718
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	281534	708
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	3	281529,281535,281575	4286
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	0		1756
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	2	281478,281505	1797
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	281535	944
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	6	281506,281507,281538,281540,281542,281548	8173
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	281478	7437
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	281580	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	281507	14640
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	2	281487,281578	407
Hydrobiotite ()*	Corrensite Clay	K(Mg,Fe²⁺)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	281504	49
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	6	281505,281538,281540,281542,281548,281572	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	4	281456,281516,281548,281563	5591
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	5	281478,281490,281533,281579,281606	1507
Lawrencite ()*	Scacchite	FeCl₂	1	281494	30
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	15	281475,281478,281485,281487,281492,281500,281503,281505,281508,281533,281538,281540,281542,281548,281579	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	6	281538,281540,281542,281548,281551,281566	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	65	281450,281451,281452,281453,281454,281455,281456,281457,281458,281459,281460,281461,281464,281465,281466,281467,281471,281492,281499,281520,281521,281522,281523,281524,281533,281536,281537,281538,281539,281540,281541,281542,281543,281544,281545,281546,281547,281548,281549,281550,281551,281552,281553,281554,281555,281556,281557,281558,281559,281560,281561,281562,281563,281564,281565,281566,281567,281568,281569,281570,281573,281574,281575,281580,281584	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	281449	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	0		2349
Pargasite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Mg₄Al)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂	1	281534	313
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	17	281456,281462,281463,281475,281477,281478,281485,281492,281497,281500,281504,281505,281533,281542,281563,281566,281580	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	5	281509,281538,281540,281542,281548	5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	3	281454,281462,281535	2705
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	4	281463,281500,281510,281580	1516
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		1214
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	281503	1934
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	4	281471,281533,281572,281580	978
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	281581	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4	281538,281540,281542,281548	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	281581	2562
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	5	281504,281532,281535,281571,281581	652
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	281535	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	8	281478,281505,281508,281535,281538,281540,281542,281548	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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