Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Eastern Ghats Belt, Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh, India

mindat Locality ID: 153512
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-153512.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Eastern Ghats Belt, Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh, India": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Airport Hill
Pāderu

Latitude: 18°18'11"N
Longitude: 82°55'57"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 18.303055555556,82.9325

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.

Amphibole	Beryl	Corundum	Feldspar	Garnet	Kornerupine	Milarite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz
Sapphirine	Spinel

Almandine ()*	Cordierite ()*	Corundum ()*	Grandidierite ()*	Hastingsite ()*
Hercynite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kornerupine ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Osumilite-(Mg) ()*
Potassic-chloro-hastingsite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sapphirine ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spinel ()*

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 B Ca Cl F Fe H K Mg Na O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Beryl Corundum Feldspar Garnet Kornerupine Milarite None Not in a structural group Quartz
Sapphirine Spinel

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2	66051,66053	2353
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	2	66051,66053	1008
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	66051	1797
Grandidierite ()*	None	MgAl₃O₂(BO₃)(SiO₄)	1	66051	40
Hastingsite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Fe²⁺₄Fe³⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂	1	66050	209
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	1	66051	407
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	66051	5433
Kornerupine ()*	Kornerupine	(Mg,Fe²⁺,Al, )₁₀(Si,Al,B)₅O₂₁(OH,F)₂	1	66051	68
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	66050	2349
Osumilite-(Mg) ()*	Milarite	KMg₂Al₃(Al₂Si₁₀)O₃₀	1	66051	42
Potassic-chloro-hastingsite ()*	Amphibole	KCa₂(Fe²⁺₄Fe³⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂Cl₂	1	66050	9
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	66050,66051	61156
Sapphirine ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₄(Mg₃Al₉)O₄[Si₃Al₉O₃₆]	3	66051,66053,66054	129
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	2	66051,66053	1516
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	4	66051,66052,66053,66054	1934

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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