Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Ebonyi, Nigeria

mindat Locality ID: 258141
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-258141.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ebonyi, Nigeria": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Abakaliki Deposit
Enyigba District
Ishiagu Lead-zinc Deposit
Nkpuma – Akpatakpa Clay

Latitude: 6°8'39"N
Longitude: 7°53'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 6.1441666666667,7.8997222222222

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Enargite	Malachite	Marcasite	Mica
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stannite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Anatase ()*	Anglesite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*
Boulangerite ()*	Bournonite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Enargite ()*	Galena ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stannite ()*
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Wittichenite ()*

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 C Ca Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si Sn Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Enargite Malachite Marcasite Mica
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stannite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	88905	2162
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	88904	2734
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	88905	3250
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	88904	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	88901	5516
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	1	88901	843
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1	88901	1089
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	88904	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	88901	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	88901,88904	27198
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	88901	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	88901,88903,88904	24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	88904	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	88901	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	88905	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	88901,88904	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	88904,88905	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	88904	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	88901,88903,88904	21482
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄	1	88904	668
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	88901	1803
Wittichenite ()*	None	Cu₃BiS₃	1	88901	297

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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