Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Shurugwi District (Selukwe District), Midlands, Zimbabwe

mindat Locality ID: 133620
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-133620.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Shurugwi District (Selukwe District), Midlands, Zimbabwe": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Banga Prospect
Camperdown Mine
Canadians Mine
Peak Mine
Shurugwi Chrome Mine (Rhodesia Chrome Mine)
Unki Mine

Latitude: 19°46'37"S
Longitude: 30°8'23"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -19.776944444444,30.139722222222

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.

Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Melonite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite
Pyrite	Serpentine	Spinel	Ullmannite

Braggite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Cooperite ()*
Corundum ()*	Cuprite ()*	Diaspore ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Hollingworthite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kotulskite ()*	Laurite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Maslovite ()*	Michenerite ()*	Moncheite ()*	Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Polarite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Sperrylite ()*

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 As Au Bi Cr Cu Fe H Mg Ni O Pb Pd Pt Rh Ru S Si Te Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Diaspore Melonite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pentlandite
Pyrite Serpentine Spinel Ullmannite

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Braggite ()*	None	PdPt₃S₄	1	295576	101
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	295576	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	2	295575,295576	3902
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	295576	951
Cooperite ()*	None	PtS	1	295576	124
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	295571	1797
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	295573	2970
Diaspore ()*	Diaspore	AlO(OH)	1	295574	481
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	295572,295576	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	295576	14640
Hollingworthite ()*	Ullmannite	RhAsS	1	295576	119
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	295576	5433
Kotulskite ()*	Nickeline	Pd(Te,Bi)_2-x (x ≈ 0.4)	1	295576	116
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂	1	295576	226
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	295576	14899
Maslovite ()*	Pyrite	PtBiTe	1	295576	23
Michenerite ()*	Ullmannite	PdBiTe	1	295576	114
Moncheite ()*	Melonite	Pt(Te,Bi)₂	1	295576	133
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	1	295575	767
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	295576	1512
Polarite ()*	None	Pd(Bi,Pb)	1	295576	10
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	295576	9056
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	1	295576	337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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