Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Transvaal Mine (Main Mine; Argent Main Mine), Argent, Delmas, Nkangala District, Mpumalanga, South Africa

mindat Locality ID: 53781
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-53781.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Transvaal Mine (Main Mine; Argent Main Mine), Argent, Delmas, Nkangala District, Mpumalanga, South Africa": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 26°1'54"S
Longitude: 28°48'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -26.031666666667,28.816111111111

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Descloizite	Linarite	Malachite	Monazite	None	Not in a structural group	Rocksalt
Scheelite	Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Antlerite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Crocoite ()*	Descloizite ()*
Galena ()*	Laurionite ()*	Linarite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Rosasite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Vanadinite ()*	Wroewolfeite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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: C Cl Cr Cu H Mo O P Pb S V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Cl Cr Cu H Mo O P Pb S V Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Descloizite Linarite Malachite Monazite None Not in a structural group Rocksalt
Scheelite Sphalerite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2734
Antlerite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu²⁺₃(SO₄)(OH)₄	246
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4979
Crocoite ()*	Monazite Baryte	Pb(CrO₄)	81
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	378
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Laurionite ()*	None	PbCl(OH)	49
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	987
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1725
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	454
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	605
Wroewolfeite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O	95
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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