Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cliff Quarry, Unst, Shetland, Scotland, UK

mindat Locality ID: 18786
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-18786.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cliff Quarry, Unst, Shetland, Scotland, UK": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 60°46'40"N
Longitude: 0°-53'-7"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 60.777777777778,-0.88527777777778

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.

Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Copper	Millerite	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Potarite	Pyrite
Serpentine	Spinel	Ullmannite

Breithauptite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Copper ()*
Geversite ()*	Godlevskite ()*	Gold ()*	Heazlewoodite ()*	Hollingworthite ()*
Hongshiite ()*	Irarsite ()*	Laurite ()*	Lizardite ()*	Magnesiochromite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Maucherite ()*	Millerite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Orcelite ()*
Osmium ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Potarite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Silver ()*
Sperrylite ()*	Stibiopalladinite ()*	Violarite ()*

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: Ag Al As Au Cr Cu Fe H Hg Ir Mg Ni O Os Pd Pt Rh Ru S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Au Cr Cu Fe H Hg Ir Mg Ni O Os Pd Pt Rh Ru S Sb Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Copper Millerite Nickeline None Pentlandite Potarite Pyrite
Serpentine Spinel Ullmannite

28 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Breithauptite ()*	Nickeline	NiSb	175
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	3902
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1756
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3846
Geversite ()*	Pyrite	PtSb₂	38
Godlevskite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	40
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	30554
Heazlewoodite ()*	None	Ni₃S₂	205
Hollingworthite ()*	Ullmannite	RhAsS	119
Hongshiite ()*	None	PtCu	27
Irarsite ()*	Pyrite	IrAsS	154
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂	226
Lizardite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	359
Magnesiochromite ()*	Spinel	MgCr₂O₄	311
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	14899
Maucherite ()*	None	Ni₁₁As₈	161
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	1066
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	633
Orcelite ()*	None	Ni_5-xAs₂ (x = 0.25)	36
Osmium ()*	None	Os	169
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1512
Potarite ()*	Potarite	PdHg	25
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	9056
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	5186
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	337
Stibiopalladinite ()*	None	Pd₅Sb₂	75
Violarite ()*	Spinel	FeNi₂S₄	380

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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