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:
Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan

mindat Locality ID: 56008
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-56008.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Char Kohan
Ras Koh Mts
Rayo Mine

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.

Amphibole	Axinite	Brookite	Brucite	Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar
Fluorite	Garnet	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Quartz	Rutile	Serpentine	Spinel	Titanite
Tourmaline

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Andradite ()*	Axinite-(Fe) ()*
Brookite ()*	Brucite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chamosite ()*	Chromite ()*
Chrysotile ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Prehnite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Schorl ()*	Spessartine ()*
Titanite ()*

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 B C Ca Cr F Fe H Mg Mn Na O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca F H Mg Mn O Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Axinite Brookite Brucite Calcite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar
Fluorite Garnet None Not in a structural group Prehnite Quartz Rutile Serpentine Spinel Titanite
Tourmaline

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	95299	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	95299,95300	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	3	95297,95300,95301	2162
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	95303	1534
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Fe²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	1	95297	260
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	4	95297,95300,95301,95302	700
Brucite ()*	Brucite	Mg(OH)₂	0		462
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	95300	27770
Chamosite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Fe²⁺,Mg,Al,Fe³⁺)₆(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH,O)₈	1	95299	577
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	95297	3902
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	0		951
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	0		1756
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	95299,95300	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	95298,95299,95300	14899
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	0		1898
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	95297,95299,95300,95301,95302	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	0		5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	95303	2705
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		1214
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	3	95298,95299,95300	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R100025	Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan	https://rruff.info/R100025

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