Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Chergilen REE Occurrence, Chekunda Town, Turana Range, Verkhnii Mel'gin River, Verkhnebureinsky District, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia

mindat Locality ID: 12428
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-12428.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Chergilen REE Occurrence, Chekunda Town, Turana Range, Verkhnii Mel'gin River, Verkhnebureinsky District, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

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.

Allanite	Apatite	Bastnäsite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Zircon

Aegirine ()*	Albite ()*	Augite ()*	Bastnäsite-(Ce) ()*	Britholite-(Ce) ()*
Ferriallanite-(Ce) ()*	Fluorite ()*	Microcline ()*	Miserite ()*	Quartz ()*
Thorite ()*	Thorosteenstrupine ()*

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 C Ca Ce F Fe H K Mg Mn Na O Si Th

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Ce F Fe H K Mg Mn Na O REE Si Th Y

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Apatite Bastnäsite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite None Pyroxene Quartz Zircon

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	1022
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	2060
Bastnäsite-(Ce) ()*	Bastnäsite	Ce(CO₃)F	304
Britholite-(Ce) ()*	Apatite	(Ce,Ca)₅(SiO₄)₃(OH)	115
Ferriallanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Fe³⁺AlFe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	28
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9617
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	4924
Miserite ()*	None	K_1.5-x(Ca,Y,REE)₅[Si₆O₁₅][Si₂O₇](OH,F)₂·yH₂O	14
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1006
Thorosteenstrupine ()*	None	(Ca,Th,Mn)₃Si₄O₁₁F·6H₂O	4

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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