Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Cunene Province, Angola

mindat Locality ID: 125551
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-125551.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cunene Province, Angola": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Ehole Meteorite
Ondjiva (N'jiva; Pereira D'Eça)

Latitude: 16°45'35"S
Longitude: 16°22'20"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -16.759722222222,16.372222222222

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.

Calcite	Copper	Corundum	Cubanite	Fluorite	Iron	None	Pyroxene	Sphalerite	Spinel

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 Cr Cu F Fe Mg Ni O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Copper Corundum Cubanite Fluorite Iron None Pyroxene Sphalerite Spinel

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Chromite ()*	Copper ()*	Diopside ()*	Fluorite ()*	Graphite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*	Isocubanite ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Siderite ()*
Taenite ()*	Tetrataenite ()*	Troilite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	1557	3902
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	1557	3846
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	1557	4135
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	1559	9617
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	1557	2812
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	1557	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	1557	1089
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	1	1557	191
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	1557	451
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	1559	6417
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	1557	703
Tetrataenite ()*	None	FeNi	1	1557	116
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	1557	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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