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:
Da'erduo Playa (Great Ear Playa), 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: 254988
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-254988.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Da'erduo Playa (Great Ear Playa), 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": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 40°8'6"N
Longitude: 90°31'22"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.135,90.522777777778

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.

Carnallite	None	Picromerite

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: Ca Cl H K Mg O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Cl H K Mg O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Carnallite None Picromerite

3 IMA Minerals at location:

Carnallite ()*	Picromerite ()*	Polyhalite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Carnallite ()*	Carnallite	KMgCl₃·6H₂O	132
Picromerite ()*	Picromerite	K₂Mg(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	44
Polyhalite ()*	None	K₂Ca₂Mg(SO₄)₄·2H₂O	102

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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