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:
Namentenga Province, Centre-Nord Region, Burkina Faso

mindat Locality ID: 159609
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-159609.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Namentenga Province, Centre-Nord Region, Burkina Faso": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Yalogo Department

Latitude: 13°29'54"N
Longitude: 0°-20'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 13.498333333333,-0.33333333333333

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	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Covellite	Epidote	Feldspar	Nickeline	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Talc

Albite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*
Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*

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 Au C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Na O Pb S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Covellite Epidote Feldspar Nickeline None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Talc

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	29184	8803
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	29184	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	29184	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	29184	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	29184	4165
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	29184	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	29184	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	29184	30554
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	29184	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	29184	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	29184	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	29184	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	29184	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	29184	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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