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:
Ungursai Ta Deposit, Irtysh River, Kalba Range, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan

Oldest recorded age at locality: 303
Youngest recorded age at locality: 279

mindat Locality ID: 20534
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-20534.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ungursai Ta Deposit, Irtysh River, Kalba Range, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 49°32'17"N
Longitude: 83°0'23"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.538055555556,83.006388888889

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.

Columbite	Gadolinite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Roscherite	Rutile

Alumotantite ()*	Calciotantite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Greifensteinite ()*	Hydroxylherderite ()*
Irtyshite ()*	Ixiolite ()*	Lithiotantite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rankamaite ()*
Tantalite-(Mn) ()*	Thoreaulite ()*

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 Be Ca Fe H K Li Mn Na Nb O P Pb Si Sn Ta

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Be Ca Fe H K Li Mn Na Nb O P Si Sn Ta

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Columbite Gadolinite None Not in a structural group Quartz Roscherite Rutile

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Alumotantite ()*	Not in a structural group	AlTaO₄	303	279	5
Calciotantite ()*	None	CaTa₄O₁₁	303	279	6
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	303	279	5171
Greifensteinite ()*	Roscherite	Ca₂Be₄Fe²⁺₅(PO₄)₆(OH)₄·6H₂O	303	279	27
Hydroxylherderite ()*	Gadolinite	CaBe(PO₄)(OH)	303	279	119
Irtyshite ()*	None	Na₂Ta₄O₁₁	303	279	2
Ixiolite ()*	Columbite	(Ta_2/3Mn²⁺_1/3)O₂	303	279	148
Lithiotantite ()*	Columbite	LiTa₃O₈	303	279	4
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	303	279	61156
Rankamaite ()*	None	(Na,K)₃(Ta,Nb,Al)₁₁(O,OH)₃₁	303	279	5
Tantalite-(Mn) ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺Ta₂O₆	303	279	211
Thoreaulite ()*	None	Sn²⁺Ta₂O₆	303	279	9

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Sample Source	Sample Num	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
Alexandra-0127	303	297	300 ± 3	U–Pb	Age of intrusion	zircon	Х1056	Zircon	20534	Ungursai Ta Deposit, Irtysh River, Kalba Range, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan	Ungursai	Kotler et al. (2015)	10.1134/S1028334X15060136	DES462_565
Alexandra-0128	299	291	295 ± 4	Ar-Ar	Age of intrusion	muscovite, lepidolite			20534	Ungursai Ta Deposit, Irtysh River, Kalba Range, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan	Ungursai	Kotler et al. (2015)	10.1134/S1028334X15060136	DES462_565
Alexandra-0129	283	279	281 ± 2	Ar-Ar	Age of intrusion	muscovite, lepidolite			20534	Ungursai Ta Deposit, Irtysh River, Kalba Range, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan	Ungursai	Kotler et al. (2015)	10.1134/S1028334X15060136	DES462_565

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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