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:
Bizerte, Tunisia

mindat Locality ID: 144159
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-144159.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bizerte, Tunisia": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Bechateur Mine
Bizerte (Banzart)
Galite Islands
Jebel Ghozlane
Sedjenane

Latitude: 37°8'27"N
Longitude: 9°30'11"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.140833333333,9.5030555555556

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Geocronite	Lillianite	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Gustavite ()*	Jordanite ()*
Matildite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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: Ag As Ba Bi C Ca Cu Fe Mg O Pb S Sb Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Geocronite Lillianite None Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	116161	2734
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	116161	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	116161	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	116161	1252
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	116161	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	116160	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	116161	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	116161	24243
Gustavite ()*	Lillianite	AgPbBi₃S₆	1	116160	113
Jordanite ()*	Geocronite	Pb₁₄As₆S₂₃	1	116161	105
Matildite ()*	None	AgBiS₂	1	116160	252
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	116160,116161	39462
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	116161	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	116161	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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