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Locality Name:
Lop Nur (Lop Nuur; Lop Lake; Luobu Lake; Luobubo), Ruoqiang Co. (Qakilik Co.; Chaqiliq Co.), Bayin'gholin Autonomous Prefecture (Bayingolin Autonomous Prefecture; Bayinguoleng Autonomous Prefecture), Xinjiang, China

mindat Locality ID: 123473
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-123473.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lop Nur (Lop Nuur; Lop Lake; Luobu Lake; Luobubo), Ruoqiang Co. (Qakilik Co.; Chaqiliq Co.), Bayin'gholin Autonomous Prefecture (Bayingolin Autonomous Prefecture; Bayinguoleng Autonomous Prefecture), Xinjiang, China": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Da'erduo Playa (Great Ear Playa)
Luobei Depression
Luodong Basin (East Luo Basin)

Latitude: 40°27'32"N
Longitude: 90°47'11"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.458888888889,90.786388888889

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.

Baryte	Blödite	Calcite	Carnallite	Epsomite	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Palmierite	Picromerite
Pyrite	Rhabdophane	Rocksalt	Starkeyite	Syngenite

Anhydrite ()*	Bassanite ()*	Blödite ()*	Carnallite ()*	Celestine ()*
Darapskite ()*	Epsomite ()*	Glauberite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*
Humberstonite ()*	Kainite ()*	Kalistrontite ()*	Leonite ()*	Löweite ()*
Magnesite ()*	Mirabilite ()*	Niter ()*	Picromerite ()*	Polyhalite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Siderite ()*	Starkeyite ()*	Sylvite ()*	Syngenite ()*
Thénardite ()*	Vanthoffite ()*

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: C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg N Na O S Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Fe H K Mg N Na O S Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Blödite Calcite Carnallite Epsomite Gypsum None Not in a structural group Palmierite Picromerite
Pyrite Rhabdophane Rocksalt Starkeyite Syngenite

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	0		1588
Bassanite ()*	Rhabdophane	Ca(SO₄)·0.5H₂O	0		82
Blödite ()*	Blödite	Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	1	44148	130
Carnallite ()*	Carnallite	KMgCl₃·6H₂O	2	44147,44148	132
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	0		1252
Darapskite ()*	None	Na₃(SO₄)(NO₃)·H₂O	0		31
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	0		484
Glauberite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(SO₄)₂	1	44148	137
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	44148,44149	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	2	44148,44149	1398
Humberstonite ()*	None	K₃Na₇Mg₂(SO₄)₆(NO₃)₂·6H₂O	0		11
Kainite ()*	None	KMg(SO₄)Cl·2.75H₂O	1	44149	50
Kalistrontite ()*	Palmierite	K₂Sr(SO₄)₂	0		11
Leonite ()*	None	K₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	0		24
Löweite ()*	None	Na₁₂Mg₇(SO₄)₁₃·15H₂O	0		28
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	0		1487
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	0		223
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	0		181
Picromerite ()*	Picromerite	K₂Mg(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	2	44147,44149	44
Polyhalite ()*	None	K₂Ca₂Mg(SO₄)₄·2H₂O	2	44147,44148	102
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	0		6417
Starkeyite ()*	Starkeyite	Mg(SO₄)·4H₂O	0		79
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	1	44148	275
Syngenite ()*	Syngenite	K₂Ca(SO₄)₂·H₂O	0		44
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	0		299
Vanthoffite ()*	None	Na₆Mg(SO₄)₄	0		16

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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