Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
La Elvirita Mine, El Quemado District, Nevados De Palermo, La Poma Department, Salta Province, Argentina

mindat Locality ID: 107346
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-107346.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "La Elvirita Mine, El Quemado District, Nevados De Palermo, La Poma Department, Salta Province, Argentina": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Arsenic	Beryl	Clay	Columbite	Feldspar	Fluorite	Mica	Monazite	None	Olivine
Quartz	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tapiolite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Amblygonite ()*	Beryl ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Bismutotantalite ()*	Columbite-(Mn) ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Montebrasite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tantalite-(Mn) ()*	Tapiolite-(Fe) ()*	Triphylite ()*
Uraninite ()*	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 Be Bi Ce F Fe H K Li Mn Na Nb O P S Si Ta U Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Be Bi Ce F Fe H K Li Mn Na Nb O P S Si Ta U Zn Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Beryl Clay Columbite Feldspar Fluorite Mica Monazite None Olivine
Quartz Sphalerite Stibnite Tapiolite Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Amblygonite ()*	None	LiAl(PO₄)F	244
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	4286
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1935
Bismutotantalite ()*	None	BiTaO₄	23
Columbite-(Mn) ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺Nb₂O₆	289
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	945
Montebrasite ()*	None	LiAl(PO₄)(OH)	200
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Tantalite-(Mn) ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺Ta₂O₆	211
Tapiolite-(Fe) ()*	Tapiolite	Fe²⁺Ta₂O₆	88
Triphylite ()*	Olivine	LiFe²⁺(PO₄)	313
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	2718
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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