Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Townlands Pipe, Rustenburg Town & Townlands Mine, Rustenburg (Rustenburg District), Bojanala Platinum District, North West, South Africa

mindat Locality ID: 194169
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-194169.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Townlands Pipe, Rustenburg Town & Townlands Mine, Rustenburg (Rustenburg District), Bojanala Platinum District, North West, South Africa": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Arsenic	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Cubanite	Digenite	Ilvaite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group
Pentlandite	Rocksalt	Wurtzite

Altaite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Clausthalite ()*	Copper ()*	Cubanite ()*	Cuprite ()*
Digenite ()*	Froodite ()*	Galena ()*	Graphite ()*	Haycockite ()*
Ilvaite ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Mooihoekite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*

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: As Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Ni O Pb Pd S Se Si Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Ni O Pb Pd S Se Si Te

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Cubanite Digenite Ilvaite Nickeline None Not in a structural group
Pentlandite Rocksalt Wurtzite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Altaite ()*	Rocksalt	PbTe	489
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1966
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Clausthalite ()*	Rocksalt	PbSe	281
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3846
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	802
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1027
Froodite ()*	None	PdBi₂	62
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Graphite ()*	None	C	2812
Haycockite ()*	Chalcopyrite	Cu₄Fe₅S₈	12
Ilvaite ()*	Ilvaite	CaFe³⁺Fe²⁺₂O(Si₂O₇)(OH)	197
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	451
Mooihoekite ()*	Chalcopyrite	Cu₉Fe₉S₁₆	20
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	633
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1512
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	9056

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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