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:
Orville Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica

mindat Locality ID: 241747
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-241747.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Orville Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Sky-Hi Nunataks

Latitude: 74°55'"S
Longitude: 71°18'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -74.916666666667,-71.316388888889

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	Aragonite	Atacamite	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Gypsum	None
Not in a structural group	Plancheite	Pyrite	Quartz	Spinel	Titanite

Alunite ()*	Antlerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Brochantite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fibroferrite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Jarosite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Natrojarosite ()*	Plancheite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Thénardite ()*	Titanite ()*

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 Cl Cu Fe H K Na O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Na O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Atacamite Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Epidote Gypsum None
Not in a structural group Plancheite Pyrite Quartz Spinel Titanite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0		966
Antlerite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu²⁺₃(SO₄)(OH)₄	0		246
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	0		3250
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	0		544
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	0		1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0		27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	1918	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	1918	8173
Fibroferrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Fe³⁺(SO₄)(OH)·5H₂O	0		107
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	1918	6890
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	1918	2228
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	1918	14899
Natrojarosite ()*	Alunite	NaFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0		254
Plancheite ()*	Plancheite	Cu₈(Si₄O₁₁)₂(OH)₄·H₂O	0		74
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	1918	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	1918	61156
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	0		299
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	1918	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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