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:
Caetité, Bahia, Brazil

mindat Locality ID: 207585
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-207585.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Caetité, Bahia, Brazil": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Brejinho Das Ametistas
Lagoa Real Province

Latitude: 14°15'35"S
Longitude: 42°31'15"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -14.259722222222,-42.520833333333

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.

Amphibole	Autunite	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Corundum	Epidote	Fluorite	Garnet	Meta-autunite	None
Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Spinel	Zircon

Andradite ()*	Autunite ()*	Epidote ()*	Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Galena ()*
Grossular ()*	Haiweeite ()*	Hastingsite ()*	Hedenbergite ()*	Hematite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*	Uranophane-β ()*	Quartz ()*	Sklodowskite ()*
Thorite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*	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 Ca Ce Fe H Mg Na Nb O P Pb S Si Ta Th Ti U Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca H Mg Nb O P Pb S Si Th Ti U Y Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Autunite Clinozoisite Columbite Corundum Epidote Fluorite Garnet Meta-autunite None
Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Spinel Zircon

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	26988	1534
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	0		1272
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	26988	8173
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	0		414
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	0		24243
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	26988	1544
Haiweeite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(Si₅O₁₂)(OH)₂·6H₂O	0		15
Hastingsite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Fe²⁺₄Fe³⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂	1	26988	209
Hedenbergite ()*	Pyroxene	CaFe²⁺Si₂O₆	1	26988	741
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	26988	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	26988	14899
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	0		388
Uranophane-β ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	0		144
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	26987	61156
Sklodowskite ()*	None	Mg(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·6H₂O	0		56
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	0		1006
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	26988	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	0		890
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	0		5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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