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:
Ipiaú, Bahia, Brazil

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2000
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2000

mindat Locality ID: 247781
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-247781.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ipiaú, Bahia, Brazil": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Mirabela Farm

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.

Chalcopyrite	Clay	Cobaltite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Ullmannite

Chalcopyrite ()*	Cobaltite ()*	Froodite ()*	Hollingworthite ()*	Irarsite ()*
Maslovite ()*	Michenerite ()*	Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Phlogopite ()*
Platarsite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Sperrylite ()*

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 As Bi Co Cu Fe H Ir K Mg Ni O Pd Pt Rh S Si Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Clay Cobaltite Mica Nickeline None Pentlandite Pyrite Ullmannite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2000	2000	1	27042	27198
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	2000	2000	1	27042	966
Froodite ()*	None	PdBi₂	2000	2000	1	27042	62
Hollingworthite ()*	Ullmannite	RhAsS	2000	2000	1	27042	119
Irarsite ()*	Pyrite	IrAsS	2000	2000	1	27042	154
Maslovite ()*	Pyrite	PtBiTe	2000	2000	1	27042	23
Michenerite ()*	Ullmannite	PdBiTe	2000	2000	1	27042	114
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	2000	2000	1	27042	767
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	2000	2000	1	27042	1512
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	2000	2000	1	27042	2273
Platarsite ()*	Pyrite	PtAsS	2000	2000	1	27042	44
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2000	2000	1	27042	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2000	2000	1	27042	9056
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	2000	2000	1	27042	337

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	EG105_1057_027	2000	2000	2000										Ni, Cu, Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Os, Ru	238030	Santa Rita Deposit, Mirabela Farm, Ipiaú, Bahia, Brazil	Santa Rita	Begg et al. (2010)	10.2113/econgeo.105.6.1057	EG105_1057

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