Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Okinawa Trough, Senkaku Islands (Diaoyudao Islands; Diaoyutai Islands), Okinawa, Japan

mindat Locality ID: 3239
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3239.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Okinawa Trough, Senkaku Islands (Diaoyudao Islands; Diaoyutai Islands), Okinawa, Japan": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Yaeyama Central Graben
Yonaguni Knoll IV Hydrothermal Field

Latitude: 25°2'24"N
Longitude: 123°47'30"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 25.04,123.79166666667

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.

Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Covellite	Epidote	Iron	Magnetoplumbite
Marcasite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Talc
Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Alabandite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bornite ()*
Calcite ()*	Carlsbergite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromium ()*	Corundum ()*
Covellite ()*	Diaoyudaoite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Eskolaite ()*
Galena ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Nukundamite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Talc ()*
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Wurtzite ()*

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 Ba Bi C Ca Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Mn N Na O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Cr Fe H K Mg N Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Covellite Epidote Iron Magnetoplumbite
Marcasite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stibnite Talc
Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

28 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	1	76217	312
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	2	76217,76218	1588
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	76216,76217	11547
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	76218	1935
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	76216,76217	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	76217	27770
Carlsbergite ()*	Rocksalt	CrN	0		26
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	76216,76217,76218	27198
Chromium ()*	Iron	Cr	0		26
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	0		1797
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	76216,76217	4165
Diaoyudaoite ()*	Magnetoplumbite	NaAl₁₁O₁₇	0		7
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	0		9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		8173
Eskolaite ()*	Corundum	Cr₂O₃	0		30
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	76216,76217,76218	24243
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	76216	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	0		17380
Nukundamite ()*	None	Cu_3.4Fe_0.6S₄	1	76217	16
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	76216,76217,76218	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	76216	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	2	76216,76217	1711
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	76216,76217,76218	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	76217	3418
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	76216	3337
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	2	76216,76217	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	76216,76217	5317
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	1	76217	372

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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