Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Tropoja Ophiolitic Massif, Kukës County, Albania

mindat Locality ID: 27794
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27794.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tropoja Ophiolitic Massif, Kukës County, Albania": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Bregu I Bibes Mine
Çabrati Mine
Maja E Sukës Deposit

Latitude: 42°19'33"N
Longitude: 20°17'5"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.325833333333,20.284722222222

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.

Auricupride	Nickeline	None	Olivine	Pentlandite	Perovskite	Potarite	Pyrite	Spinel	Ullmannite

Anduoite ()*	Chromite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Hollingworthite ()*	Isoferroplatinum ()*
Laurite ()*	Osmium ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Sperrylite ()*
Spinel ()*	Tetraferroplatinum ()*

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 Cr Fe Mg Ni O Os Pt Rh Ru S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Fe Mg Ni O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Auricupride Nickeline None Olivine Pentlandite Perovskite Potarite Pyrite Spinel Ullmannite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anduoite ()*	None	RuAs₂	1	1292	9
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	2	1290,1292	3902
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	1291	1188
Hollingworthite ()*	Ullmannite	RhAsS	1	1292	119
Isoferroplatinum ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Pt₃Fe	1	1290	128
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂	1	1290	226
Osmium ()*	None	Os	1	1290	169
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	0		1512
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	0		9056
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	1	1292	337
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	0		1934
Tetraferroplatinum ()*	Potarite	PtFe	1	1290	66

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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