Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Curaçao, Netherlands

mindat Locality ID: 186190
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-186190.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Curaçao, Netherlands": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Little Curaçao Island
Santa Barbara
Table Mountain

Latitude: 12°2'29"N
Longitude: 68°46'22"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 12.041388888889,-68.772777777778

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.

Apatite	Calcite	Cerite	Clay	None	Smectite-vermiculite

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 F Fe H Mg Na O P Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Calcite Cerite Clay None Smectite-vermiculite

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Foggite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Saponite ()*
Whitlockite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	87101	27770
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	87099	2740
Foggite ()*	None	CaAl(PO₄)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	87099	4
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	1	87101	367
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	87100	301
Whitlockite ()*	Cerite	Ca₉Mg(PO₃OH)(PO₄)₆	1	87101	104

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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