Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Matruh, Egypt

mindat Locality ID: 195955
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-195955.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Matruh, Egypt": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
East Uweinat Desert
Great Sand Sea
Minqar Abd El Nabi Meteorite

Latitude: 27°9'55"N
Longitude: 27°28'16"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 27.165277777778,27.471111111111

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.

Amorphous	Copper	Cristobalite	Iron	None	Not in a structural group	Pyroxene	Rutile	Spinel

Chromite ()*	Coesite ()*	Copper ()*	Cristobalite ()*	Daubréelite ()*
Diopside ()*	Iron ()*	Lechatelierite ()*	Mullite ()*	Nickelphosphide ()*
Schreibersite ()*	Stishovite ()*	Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*

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 Ca Cr Cu Fe Mg Ni O P S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Copper Cristobalite Iron None Not in a structural group Pyroxene Rutile Spinel

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	49158	3902
Coesite ()*	Not in a structural group	SiO₂	1	49155	77
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	49156	3846
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	49155	453
Daubréelite ()*	Spinel	FeCr₂S₄	1	49156	157
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	49158	4135
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	2	49156,49158	1089
Lechatelierite ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂	1	49157	62
Mullite ()*	None	Al_4+2xSi_2-2xO_10-x (x ≈ 0.4)	1	49155	78
Nickelphosphide ()*	None	Ni₃P	1	49156	19
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	1	49156	374
Stishovite ()*	Rutile	SiO₂	1	49155	26
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	2	49156,49158	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	2	49156,49158	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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