Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica

mindat Locality ID: 195110
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-195110.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica": 31
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Anvars Island
Argentine Islands
Black Coast
Bransfield Strait
Lassiter Coast
Palmer Land
Seymour Island
South Shetland Islands

Latitude: 67°38'42"S
Longitude: 62°39'9"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -67.645,-62.6525

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.

Alunite	Amorphous	Amphibole	Analcime	Andalusite	Apatite	Aragonite	Atacamite	Baryte	Beryl
Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore	Enargite	Epidote
Feldspar	Gypsum	Hexahydrite	Kaolinite	Leucophosphite	Marcasite	Mica	Molybdenite	Mordenite	Natrolite
Nickeline	Nolanite	None	Not in a structural group	Orpiment	Plancheite	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Pyrophyllite	Pyroxene
Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Struvite	Sulphur	Tamarugite	Taranakite
Tetrahedrite	Titanite	Tridymite	Vivianite	Weberite	Wurtzite	Zircon

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 Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo N Na O P Pb S Si Ti Zn Zr

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Amphibole Analcime Andalusite Apatite Aragonite Atacamite Baryte Beryl
Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Covellite Diaspore Enargite Epidote
Feldspar Gypsum Hexahydrite Kaolinite Leucophosphite Marcasite Mica Molybdenite Mordenite Natrolite
Nickeline Nolanite None Not in a structural group Orpiment Plancheite Pyrite Pyrochlore Pyrophyllite Pyroxene
Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Struvite Sulphur Tamarugite Taranakite
Tetrahedrite Titanite Tridymite Vivianite Weberite Wurtzite Zircon

88 IMA Minerals at location:

Actinolite ()*	Aerinite ()*	Albite ()*	Alunite ()*	Analcime ()*
Andalusite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Antlerite ()*
Aragonite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Brochantite ()*
Brushite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chloraluminite ()*
Cordierite ()*	Corundum ()*	Covellite ()*	Cowlesite ()*	Diaspore ()*
Diopside ()*	Enargite ()*	Enstatite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferrihydrite ()*
Ferrosaponite ()*	Fibroferrite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*	Graphite ()*
Greigite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hexahydrite ()*
Hydrokenoralstonite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Ikaite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Jarosite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Leucophosphite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Microcline ()*	Minyulite ()*	Mogánite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Molysite ()*
Mordenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Natrojarosite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Nontronite ()*
Opal ()*	Orpiment ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Plancheite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrophyllite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Saponite ()*
Scolecite ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spheniscidite ()*	Struvite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Sylvite ()*	Tamarugite ()*	Taranakite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Thénardite ()*	Titanite ()*	Tridymite ()*	Vashegyite ()*	Vivianite ()*
Weberite ()*	Zircon ()*	Zunyite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	1929	3419
Aerinite ()*	Not in a structural group	(Ca,Na)₆(Fe³⁺,Fe²⁺,Mg,Al)₄(Al,Mg)₆Si₁₂O₃₆(OH)₁₂(CO₃)·12H₂O	1	1928	22
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	1907,1928	8803
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	2	1917,1929	966
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	1927	1627
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	3	1908,1915,1929	1310
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	1907	1588
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	1919	3092
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1	1928	1036
Antlerite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu²⁺₃(SO₄)(OH)₄	1	1917	246
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	1917,1919	3250
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	1917	544
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	1911,1935	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	3	1907,1911,1935	5516
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	1917	1633
Brushite ()*	Gypsum	Ca(PO₃OH)·2H₂O	0		104
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	1915,1917,1927,1929	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	1907	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	9	1906,1907,1909,1911,1916,1918,1929,1934,1935	27198
Chloraluminite ()*	None	AlCl₃·6H₂O	1	1921	3
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	1915	1008
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	1929	1797
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	1907,1911	4165
Cowlesite ()*	None	Ca(Al₂Si₃)O₁₀·5-6H₂O	1	1928	84
Diaspore ()*	Diaspore	AlO(OH)	1	1929	481
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	1928	4135
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	1911	910
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	1928	944
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3	1907,1918,1929	8173
Ferrihydrite ()*	Nolanite	Fe³⁺₁₀O₁₄(OH)₂	1	1919	86
Ferrosaponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Ca_0.3(Fe²⁺,Mg,Fe³⁺)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	1927	6
Fibroferrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Fe³⁺(SO₄)(OH)·5H₂O	1	1917	107
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	1907	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	1911,1934	24243
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	1915	2812
Greigite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂S₄	1	1921	62
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	3	1917,1918,1919	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	2	1919,1921	1398
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	1925,1935	14640
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	1	1919	251
Hydrokenoralstonite ()*	Pyrochlore	₂Al₂F₆(H₂O)	1	1921	56
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	2	1931,1932	367
Ikaite ()*	None	Ca(CO₃)·6H₂O	1	1910	12
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	1907	5433
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	2	1918,1919	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	1907,1926	5591
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	1927	1271
Leucophosphite ()*	Leucophosphite	KFe³⁺₂(PO₄)₂(OH)·2H₂O	2	1931,1932	110
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	6	1907,1916,1918,1928,1929,1935	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	1911	5674
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	1907	4924
Minyulite ()*	None	KAl₂(PO₄)₂F·4H₂O	3	1922,1931,1932	31
Mogánite ()*	None	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	1927	43
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	4	1906,1907,1929,1935	5800
Molysite ()*	None	FeCl₃	1	1921	12
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	1	1927	405
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	4	1907,1915,1926,1929	17380
Natrojarosite ()*	Alunite	NaFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	2	1917,1919	254
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	1927	1236
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	1911	471
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	1911	2994
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃	1	1911	511
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	1907	2349
Plancheite ()*	Plancheite	Cu₈(Si₄O₁₁)₂(OH)₄·H₂O	1	1917	74
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	10	1906,1907,1909,1911,1916,1918,1921,1928,1929,1930	39462
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	1929	771
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	1907	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	11	1906,1907,1909,1916,1918,1925,1928,1929,1930,1934,1935	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	3	1907,1916,1929	5614
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	1928	301
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	1	1927	390
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	1907	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	1934	21482
Spheniscidite ()*	Leucophosphite	(NH₄)Fe³⁺₂(PO₄)₂(OH)·2H₂O	1	1922	4
Struvite ()*	Struvite	(NH₄)Mg(PO₄)·6H₂O	2	1931,1932	30
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	3	1911,1921,1929	2045
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	1	1921	275
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	1	1919	87
Taranakite ()*	Taranakite	K₃Al₅(PO₃OH)₆(PO₄)₂·18H₂O	1	1932	57
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	1911	1803
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	1	1917	299
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	1918	4899
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	1921	458
Vashegyite ()*	None	Al₁₁(PO₄)₉(OH)₆·38H₂O	0		28
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	0		636
Weberite ()*	Weberite	Na₂MgAlF₇	1	1921	13
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	1907	5251
Zunyite ()*	None	Al₁₃Si₅O₂₀(OH,F)₁₈Cl	1	1929	86

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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