Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Mare Fecunditatis, The Moon

mindat Locality ID: 232119
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-232119.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mare Fecunditatis, The Moon": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Luna 16 Landing Site

Latitude: 0°-40'-59"N
Longitude: 56°17'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -0.68305555555556,56.299444444444

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.

Arsenic	Baryte	Copper	Corundum	Feldspar	Iron	Molybdenite	None	Olivine	Pyroxene
Scheelite	Spinel	Wurtzite	Zirconolite

Anorthite ()*	Antimony ()*	Augite ()*	Baryte ()*	Celestine ()*
Clinoenstatite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Gold ()*	Greenockite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Indium ()*	Iron ()*	Lead ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Pigeonite ()*	Platinum ()*	Scheelite ()*	Silver ()*	Tin ()*
Troilite ()*	Tungsten ()*	Zirconolite ()*

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 Au Ba Ca Cd Fe In Mg Mo O Pb Pt S Sb Si Sn Sr Ti W Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Baryte Copper Corundum Feldspar Iron Molybdenite None Olivine Pyroxene
Scheelite Spinel Wurtzite Zirconolite

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1	116057	1036
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	1	116057	363
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	116057	2060
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	116057	11547
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	116057	1252
Clinoenstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	116057	94
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	116057	1188
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	116057	30554
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	116057	717
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	116057	5433
Indium ()*	None	In	1	116057	9
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	116057	1089
Lead ()*	Copper	Pb	1	116057	192
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	116057	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	116057	5800
Pigeonite ()*	Pyroxene	(Mg,Fe,Ca)₂Si₂O₆	1	116057	303
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	1	116057	485
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	116057	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	116057	5186
Tin ()*	None	Sn	1	116057	63
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	116057	1044
Tungsten ()*	Iron	W	1	116057	23
Zirconolite ()*	Zirconolite	(Ca,Y)Zr(Ti,Mg,Al)₂O₇	1	116057	140

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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