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:
Gibeon, Hardap Region, Namibia

mindat Locality ID: 187139
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-187139.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gibeon, Hardap Region, Namibia": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Gibeon Meteorite
Korra Korrabes Meteorite

Latitude: 25°11'59"S
Longitude: 18°4'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -25.199722222222,18.083055555556

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.

Corundum	Iron	None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Spinel	Tridymite	Wilkmanite

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: Cr Fe Mg Ni O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Corundum Iron None Pyroxene Quartz Spinel Tridymite Wilkmanite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Brezinaite ()*	Chromite ()*	Clinoenstatite ()*	Daubréelite ()*	Eskolaite ()*
Iron ()*	Quartz ()*	Taenite ()*	Tridymite ()*	Troilite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Brezinaite ()*	Wilkmanite	Cr₃S₄	1	86653	7
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	86653	3902
Clinoenstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	86654	94
Daubréelite ()*	Spinel	FeCr₂S₄	1	86653	157
Eskolaite ()*	Corundum	Cr₂O₃	1	86653	30
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	2	86653,86654	1089
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	86653	61156
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	86653	703
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	86653	458
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	2	86653,86654	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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