Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Songwe Hill REE Project (Songwe Hill Carbonatite), Phalombe, Southern Region, Malawi

mindat Locality ID: 299116
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-299116.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Songwe Hill REE Project (Songwe Hill Carbonatite), Phalombe, Southern Region, Malawi": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 15°42'5"S
Longitude: 35°49'17"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -15.701388888889,35.821388888889

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Fluorite	None	Parisite	Pyrite	Quartz	Tridymite
Zircon

Ankerite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Nepheline ()*	Parisite-(Ce) ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Strontianite ()*
Synchysite-(Ce) ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*	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 Ba C Ca Ce F Fe K Na O P S Si Sr Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba C Ca Ce F Fe K Mg Na O P S Si Sr Y Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Fluorite None Parisite Pyrite Quartz Tridymite
Zircon

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	3092
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9617
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	884
Parisite-(Ce) ()*	Parisite	CaCe₂(CO₃)₃F₂	112
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	589
Synchysite-(Ce) ()*	None	CaCe(CO₃)₂F	232
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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