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:
Christmas Island, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 16963
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-16963.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Christmas Island, Australia": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Flying Fish Cove
Smiths Cave
South Point Quarry

Latitude: 10°29'49"S
Longitude: 105°39'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -10.496944444444,105.66611111111

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	Apatite	Aragonite	Calcioferrite	Calcite	Diaspore	None	Wardite	Wavellite

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chlorapatite ()*	Crandallite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*
Goethite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Millisite ()*	Montgomeryite ()*	Strengite ()*
Variscite ()*	Wavellite ()*

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 Cl F Fe H Mg Na O P

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Fe H Mg Na O P

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Aragonite Calcioferrite Calcite Diaspore None Wardite Wavellite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	3995	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	3995	27770
Chlorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	3995	203
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	0		310
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	3996	2740
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	0		7437
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	1	3995	367
Millisite ()*	Wardite	NaCaAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₉·3H₂O	0		12
Montgomeryite ()*	Calcioferrite	Ca₄MgAl₄(PO₄)₆(OH)₄·12H₂O	0		44
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	0		263
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	0		301
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	0		374

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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