Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Central District, Botswana

mindat Locality ID: 123173
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-123173.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Central District, Botswana": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Bobonong District
Letlhakane
Palapye
Tutume

Latitude: 21°38'25"S
Longitude: 26°50'8"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -21.640277777778,26.835555555556

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	Calcite	Clay	Coronadite	Corundum	Diamond	Feldspar	Garnet	Mica	None
Not in a structural group	Olivine	Perovskite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Spurrite-Afwillite

Bultfonteinite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Ice-VII ()*	Diamond ()*
Diopside ()*	Enstatite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Freudenbergite ()*
Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hollandite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kudryavtsevaite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Manganite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Perovskite ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Pyrope ()*	Quartz ()*	Spinel ()*
Ulvöspinel ()*

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 F Fe H K Mg Mn Na O P Si Sn Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: O Sn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Calcite Clay Coronadite Corundum Diamond Feldspar Garnet Mica None
Not in a structural group Olivine Perovskite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Spinel Spurrite-Afwillite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Bultfonteinite ()*	Spurrite-Afwillite	Ca₂SiO₃(OH)F·H₂O	1	26856	20
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	26859	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	0		5171
Ice-VII ()*	None	H₂O	1	26857	1
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	4	26852,26853,26856,26857	697
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	2	26853,26855	4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	26853	944
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	26850	2740
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	2	26853,26855	1188
Freudenbergite ()*	None	Na(Ti⁴⁺₃Fe³⁺)O₈	1	26855	8
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	26857	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	26859	14640
Hollandite ()*	Coronadite	Ba(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	1	26859	243
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	3	26853,26855,26857	5433
Kudryavtsevaite ()*	Not in a structural group	Na₃MgFe³⁺Ti₄O₁₂	1	26855	1
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	26855	14899
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	1	26859	770
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	26859	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	26859	2349
Perovskite ()*	Perovskite	CaTiO₃	2	26854,26855	495
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	2	26853,26855	2273
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	26859	3106
Pyrope ()*	Garnet	Mg₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	26855	341
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	26849,26859	61156
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	26853	1934
Ulvöspinel ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺₂TiO₄	1	26855	120

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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