Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Mato Grosso Do Sul, Brazil

mindat Locality ID: 146686
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146686.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mato Grosso Do Sul, Brazil": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Bonito
Cassilândia
Corumbá
Porto Murtinho

Latitude: 20°13'40"S
Longitude: 55°56'17"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -20.227777777778,-55.938055555556

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	Coronadite	Corundum	Cubanite	Diamond	Feldspar	None	Not in a structural group	Pyroxene	Quartz
Sphalerite	Spinel	Titanite	Tridymite

Aegirine ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cryptomelane ()*
Diamond ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Isocubanite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Maghemite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Nepheline ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Quartz ()*	Taenite ()*	Titanite ()*
Troilite ()*

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 Cr Cu Fe K Mg Mn Na Ni O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Coronadite Corundum Cubanite Diamond Feldspar None Not in a structural group Pyroxene Quartz
Sphalerite Spinel Titanite Tridymite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	1	27487	1022
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	27487	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	27482,27483	27770
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	27481	3902
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	2	27484,27485	599
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	0		697
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	27481	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	27485	9895
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	27484,27485	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	27481	5433
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	1	27481	191
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	0		1507
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	27481	451
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	27484	229
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	27484,27487	14899
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	1	27487	884
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	27487	2349
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	27484,27485	61156
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	27481	703
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	27487	4899
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	27481	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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