Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Phoenix Mine, Francistown District, North-East District, Botswana

mindat Locality ID: 190656
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-190656.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Phoenix Mine, Francistown District, North-East District, Botswana": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 21°12'43"S
Longitude: 27°45'55"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -21.211944444444,27.765277777778

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.

Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Feldspar	Melonite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline
None	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Ullmannite

Albite ()*	Altaite ()*	Argentopentlandite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Epidote ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hessite ()*	Hollingworthite ()*	Merenskyite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rheniite ()*	Sperrylite ()*	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: Ag Al As Au Ca Cu Fe H K Mo Na Ni O Pb Pd Pt Re Rh S Si Te Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Au Ca Cu Fe H K Mo Na Ni O Pb Pd Pt Re Rh S Si Te Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Feldspar Melonite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline
None Pentlandite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Ullmannite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Altaite ()*	Rocksalt	PbTe	489
Argentopentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	Ag(Fe,Ni)₈S₈	67
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	30554
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	804
Hollingworthite ()*	Ullmannite	RhAsS	119
Merenskyite ()*	Melonite	PdTe₂	155
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1512
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Rheniite ()*	None	ReS₂	8
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	337
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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