Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cuttack District, Odisha, India

mindat Locality ID: 204528
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-204528.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cuttack District, Odisha, India": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Mahanadi Riverbank
Saruabil-Maruabil Chromite Belt

Latitude: 20°55'55"N
Longitude: 85°18'16"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 20.931944444444,85.304444444444

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.

Chlorite	Clay	Corundum	Garnet	Iron	None	Not in a structural group	Post-spinel	Ramsdellite	Spinel

Anatase ()*	Chromite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Cuprite ()*	Cuprospinel ()*
Hematite ()*	Karelianite ()*	Maghemite ()*	Marokite ()*	Mullite ()*
Ramsdellite ()*	Uvarovite ()*	Zhanghengite ()*	Zincochromite ()*

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 H Mg Mn O Si Ti V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chlorite Clay Corundum Garnet Iron None Not in a structural group Post-spinel Ramsdellite Spinel

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂			1	66651	2162
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄			2	66651,66653	3902
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈			1	66653	1756
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O			1	66651	2970
Cuprospinel ()*	Spinel	Cu²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	0	0	1	66651	4
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			1	66651	14640
Karelianite ()*	Corundum	V₂O₃			1	66651	17
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	66651	229
Marokite ()*	Post-spinel	CaMn³⁺₂O₄			1	66651	8
Mullite ()*	None	Al_4+2xSi_2-2xO_10-x (x ≈ 0.4)			1	66651	78
Ramsdellite ()*	Ramsdellite	MnO₂			1	66651	88
Uvarovite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Cr₂(SiO₄)₃			1	66653	212
Zhanghengite ()*	Iron	CuZn			1	66651	6
Zincochromite ()*	Spinel	ZnCr₂O₄			1	66651	11

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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