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:
Adh Dhahirah, Oman

mindat Locality ID: 131054
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-131054.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Adh Dhahirah, Oman": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Wadi Muaydin
Yangul

Latitude: 23°38'13"N
Longitude: 56°30'41"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 23.636944444444,56.511388888889

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.

Arsenopyrite	Auricupride	Brochantite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Enargite	Malachite	None	Pentlandite	Perovskite
Serpentine	Spinel	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Antigorite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Awaruite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Enargite ()*	Lizardite ()*	Magnesioferrite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Pentlandite ()*	Posnjakite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*

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: As C Cu Fe H Mg Ni O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Auricupride Brochantite Chalcopyrite Clay Enargite Malachite None Pentlandite Perovskite
Serpentine Spinel Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	95075	708
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	95081	9052
Awaruite ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Ni₃Fe	1	95075	166
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	95083	1633
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	95080,95081	27198
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	95081	910
Lizardite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	95075	359
Magnesioferrite ()*	Spinel	MgFe³⁺₂O₄	1	95075	98
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	95075	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	95083	12537
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	95075	1512
Posnjakite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·H₂O	1	95083	309
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	95081	1803

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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