Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Haifa District, Israel

mindat Locality ID: 145486
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-145486.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Haifa District, Israel": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Kishon River
Mount Carmel

Latitude: 32°39'59"N
Longitude: 35°0'43"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.666388888889,35.011944444444

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.

Alunite	Amorphous	Apatite	Beryllonite	Calcioferrite	Calcite	Clay	Corundum	Diamond	Feldspar
Fluorite	Garnet	Iron	Leucophosphite	Magnetoplumbite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyroxene	Quartz
Rocksalt	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Taranakite	Wurtzite	Zircon	Zirconolite

Anorthite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Carmeltazite ()*	Chromite ()*
Corundum ()*	Crandallite ()*	Dellagiustaite ()*	Diamond ()*	Diopside ()*
Dolomite ()*	Evansite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Grossite ()*
Gupeiite ()*	Hibonite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Khamrabaevite ()*
Krotite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Leucophosphite ()*	Moissanite ()*	Montgomeryite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Osbornite ()*	Phlogopite ()*
Pyrope ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Spinel ()*	Taranakite ()*
Tin ()*	Tistarite ()*	Vanadium ()*	Variscite ()*	Zircon ()*
Zirconolite ()*

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 C Ca Ce Cr F Fe H K Mg N Na O P Si Sn Ti V Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Apatite Beryllonite Calcioferrite Calcite Clay Corundum Diamond Feldspar
Fluorite Garnet Iron Leucophosphite Magnetoplumbite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyroxene Quartz
Rocksalt Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Taranakite Wurtzite Zircon Zirconolite

41 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1	68188	1036
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	68188	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	68186,68187	27770
Carmeltazite ()*	Not in a structural group	ZrAl₂Ti₄O₁₁	1	68188	1
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	68188	3902
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	3	68184,68185,68188	1797
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	2	68186,68187	310
Dellagiustaite ()*	Spinel	V²⁺Al₂O₄	1	68188	2
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	2	68184,68188	697
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	68188	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	68187	9895
Evansite ()*	Amorphous	Al₃(PO₄)(OH)₆·8H₂O	1	68187	56
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	68187	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	68188	9617
Grossite ()*	None	CaAl₄O₇	1	68188	19
Gupeiite ()*	None	Fe₃Si	1	68188	3
Hibonite ()*	Magnetoplumbite	CaAl₁₂O₁₉	1	68188	80
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	1	68187	367
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2	68184,68188	5433
Khamrabaevite ()*	Rocksalt	TiC	1	68188	7
Krotite ()*	Beryllonite	CaAl₂O₄	1	68188	2
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	68184	1507
Leucophosphite ()*	Leucophosphite	KFe³⁺₂(PO₄)₂(OH)·2H₂O	1	68187	110
Moissanite ()*	Wurtzite	SiC	1	68188	57
Montgomeryite ()*	Calcioferrite	Ca₄MgAl₄(PO₄)₆(OH)₄·12H₂O	2	68186,68187	44
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	68187	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	68187	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	68187	2994
Osbornite ()*	Rocksalt	TiN	1	68188	20
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	68188	2273
Pyrope ()*	Garnet	Mg₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	68184	341
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	68187	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	68184	5614
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	2	68184,68188	1934
Taranakite ()*	Taranakite	K₃Al₅(PO₃OH)₆(PO₄)₂·18H₂O	1	68187	57
Tin ()*	None	Sn	1	68188	63
Tistarite ()*	Corundum	Ti₂O₃	1	68188	2
Vanadium ()*	Iron	V	1	68188	5
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	68187	301
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	68184	5251
Zirconolite ()*	Zirconolite	(Ca,Y)Zr(Ti,Mg,Al)₂O₇	1	68188	140

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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