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:
Portree, Trotternish, Isle Of Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK

mindat Locality ID: 2956
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-2956.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Portree, Trotternish, Isle Of Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Portree Quarry (Co-op Quarry)
Staffin Road
The Storr

Latitude: 57°27'15"N
Longitude: 6°12'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 57.454166666667,-6.2

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.

Amorphous	Analcime	Calcite	Clay	Gismondine	Gyrolite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Smectite-vermiculite
Stilbite	Thomsonite	Tobermorite

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Garronite-Ca ()*	Gyrolite ()*	Laumontite ()*
Mesolite ()*	Opal ()*	Saponite ()*	Scolecite ()*	Stilbite-Ca ()*
Tacharanite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Tobermorite ()*	Xonotlite ()*

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 Fe H Mg Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca H O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Calcite Clay Gismondine Gyrolite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Smectite-vermiculite
Stilbite Thomsonite Tobermorite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	3	122560,122561,122562	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	122560,122561,122562	27770
Garronite-Ca ()*	Gismondine	Ca₃(Al₆Si₁₀O₃₂)·14H₂O	1	122562	66
Gyrolite ()*	Gyrolite	NaCa₁₆(Si₂₃Al)O₆₀(OH)₈·14H₂O	2	122561,122562	142
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	2	122561,122562	1271
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	3	122560,122561,122562	425
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	122562	2994
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	122561	301
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	1	122562	390
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Stilbite	NaCa₄(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·28H₂O	1	122562	268
Tacharanite ()*	None	Ca₁₂Al₂Si₁₈O₃₃(OH)₃₆	0		47
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	1	122562	452
Tobermorite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₇(H₂O)₂·(Ca·3H₂O)	1	122561	114
Xonotlite ()*	None	Ca₆Si₆O₁₇(OH)₂	1	122561	109

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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