Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Niquelândia, Goiás, Brazil

mindat Locality ID: 203210
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-203210.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Niquelândia, Goiás, Brazil": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Niquelândia Complex
Uruaçu Meteorite

Latitude: 14°26'42"S
Longitude: 48°35'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -14.445,-48.583611111111

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.

Auricupride	Bowieite	Clay	Corundum	Iron	Kaolinite	Melonite	Mica	Millerite	Nickeline
None	Pentlandite	Perovskite	Potarite	Pyrite	Rutile	Spinel

Chromite ()*	Cohenite ()*	Erlichmanite ()*	Geversite ()*	Hematite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Irarsite ()*	Iron ()*	Isoferroplatinum ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Kashinite ()*	Kotulskite ()*	Laurite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malanite ()*
Merenskyite ()*	Millerite ()*	Moncheite ()*	Osmium ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Rutile ()*	Schreibersite ()*	Sobolevskite ()*	Stumpflite ()*
Sudburyite ()*	Tetraferroplatinum ()*

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 As Bi C Cr Cu Fe H Ir K Mg Ni O Os P Pd Pt Ru S Sb Si Te Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe Pd Pt Te

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Auricupride Bowieite Clay Corundum Iron Kaolinite Melonite Mica Millerite Nickeline
None Pentlandite Perovskite Potarite Pyrite Rutile Spinel

27 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	27301	3902
Cohenite ()*	Perovskite	CFe₃	1	27303	77
Erlichmanite ()*	Pyrite	OsS₂	1	27301	110
Geversite ()*	Pyrite	PtSb₂	1	27301	38
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	27301	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	27301	5433
Irarsite ()*	Pyrite	IrAsS	1	27301	154
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	27303	1089
Isoferroplatinum ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Pt₃Fe	0		128
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	27301	5591
Kashinite ()*	Bowieite	Ir₂S₃	1	27301	29
Kotulskite ()*	Nickeline	Pd(Te,Bi)_2-x (x ≈ 0.4)	1	27301	116
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂	1	27301	226
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	27301	14899
Malanite ()*	Spinel	Cu¹⁺(Ir³⁺Pt⁴⁺)S₄	1	27301	35
Merenskyite ()*	Melonite	PdTe₂	0		155
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	1	27301	1066
Moncheite ()*	Melonite	Pt(Te,Bi)₂	1	27301	133
Osmium ()*	None	Os	1	27301	169
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	27301	1512
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	27301	2273
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	27301	5614
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	1	27303	374
Sobolevskite ()*	Nickeline	PdBi	1	27301	44
Stumpflite ()*	Nickeline	PtSb	1	27301	7
Sudburyite ()*	Nickeline	PdSb	1	27301	46
Tetraferroplatinum ()*	Potarite	PtFe	1	27301	66

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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