Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Khyber Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Oldest recorded age at locality: 33
Youngest recorded age at locality: 29

mindat Locality ID: 156907
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-156907.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Khyber Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Loe Shilman Carbonatite
Mulla Ghori
Shalman Area
Tor Ghar

Latitude: 34°4'20"N
Longitude: 70°50'32"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.072222222222,70.842222222222

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	Aragonite	Calcite	Cancrinite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Mica
None	Parisite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Titanite	Vesuvianite	Zircon

Aegirine ()*	Albite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cancrinite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferro-actinolite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnesio-arfvedsonite ()*
Magnesio-riebeckite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Parisite-(Ce) ()*	Phlogopite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Siderite ()*	Strontianite ()*	Titanite ()*
Vesuvianite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon ()*

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 F Fe H K Mg Na O P S Si Sr Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Aragonite Calcite Cancrinite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Mica
None Parisite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Spinel Titanite Vesuvianite Zircon

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	33	29	1	95480	1022
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	33	29	2	95480,95481	8803
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆			1	95482	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	33	29	2	95480,95481	27770
Cancrinite ()*	Cancrinite	(Na,Ca, )₈(Al₆Si₆)O₂₄(CO₃,SO₄)₂·2H₂O	33	29	1	95480	232
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	33	29	1	95480	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	33	29	2	95480,95481	8173
Ferro-actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_2.5-0.0Fe²⁺_2.5-5.0)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			1	95481	129
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	33	29	1	95480	5433
Magnesio-arfvedsonite ()*	Amphibole	NaNa₂(Mg₄Fe³⁺)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	33	29	1	95480	79
Magnesio-riebeckite ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Mg₃Fe³⁺₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	33	29	1	95480	93
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	33	29	1	95480	14899
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	33	29	1	95480	17380
Parisite-(Ce) ()*	Parisite	CaCe₂(CO₃)₃F₂			1	95481	112
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	33	29	1	95480	2273
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	33	29	2	95480,95481	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	33	29	1	95480	5614
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	33	29	1	95480	6417
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	33	29	1	95480	589
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	33	29	3	95480,95481,95482	4899
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀			1	95482	1395
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)			1	95481	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	33	29	1	95480	5251

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Jen_0001143	MAGMATIC STYLE: Dipping sheet about 2.5 km long and up to 170 m wide. Co-linear with it are smaller outcrops some 5 km away. It probably extends across the border into Afghanistan. ASSOCIATED SILICATE ROCKS: Fenite.

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Jen_0001143	33	29	31±2	K-Ar			biotite							31407	Loe Shilman Carbonatite, Khyber Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	Loe Shilman	Woolley and Kjarsgaard (2008)	10.4095/225115	GSCOF5796

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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