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:
South-West Region, Cameroon

mindat Locality ID: 195996
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-195996.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "South-West Region, Cameroon": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Buea
Munaya Placer
Nda-Ali Massif
Nsanaragati Placer

Latitude: 5°21'1"N
Longitude: 9°7'1"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 5.3502777777778,9.1169444444444

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.

Analcime	Cancrinite-sodalite	Corundum	Garnet	Melilite	None	Perovskite	Pyroxene	Rutile	Sapphirine
Sodalite	Spinel	Titanite	Tridymite	Zircon

Aegirine ()*	Aegirine-augite ()*	Aenigmatite ()*	Alumoåkermanite ()*	Augite ()*
Corundum ()*	Diopside ()*	Leucite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Nepheline ()*
Nosean ()*	Perovskite ()*	Rutile ()*	Schorlomite ()*	Sodalite ()*
Titanite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Cl Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Cancrinite-sodalite Corundum Garnet Melilite None Perovskite Pyroxene Rutile Sapphirine
Sodalite Spinel Titanite Tridymite Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	2	29457,29459	1022
Aegirine-augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Fe³⁺,Mg,Fe²⁺)Si₂O₆	1	29457	286
Aenigmatite ()*	Sapphirine	Na₄[Fe²⁺₁₀Ti₂]O₄[Si₁₂O₃₆]	1	29457	133
Alumoåkermanite ()*	Melilite	(Ca,Na)₂(Al,Mg,Fe²⁺)(Si₂O₇)	1	29457	7
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	29457	2060
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	29460	1797
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	29457	4135
Leucite ()*	Analcime	K(AlSi₂O₆)	1	29457	233
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	29457	14899
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	1	29457	884
Nosean ()*	Sodalite Cancrinite-sodalite	Na₈(Si₆Al₆)O₂₄(SO₄)·H₂O	1	29457	75
Perovskite ()*	Perovskite	CaTiO₃	1	29457	495
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	29460	5614
Schorlomite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Ti₂(SiFe³⁺₂)O₁₂	1	29457	54
Sodalite ()*	Cancrinite-sodalite Sodalite	Na₄(Si₃Al₃)O₁₂Cl	1	29457	444
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	29457,29459	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	29460	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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