Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Central Schist Belt, Kolar Gold Fields, Kolar District, Karnataka, India

mindat Locality ID: 205855
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-205855.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Central Schist Belt, Kolar Gold Fields, Kolar District, Karnataka, India": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Champion Lode
McTaggart West Lode
Mundy's Deposit
Nundydroog Mine (Coromandal Mine; Oriental Lode)
West Prospect Lode

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Cubanite	Epidote	Löllingite	Marcasite
Melonite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite
Spinel	Tetrahedrite	Ullmannite	Wurtzite

Altaite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Calaverite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cotunnite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Hawleyite ()*	Hessite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Kolarite ()*	Löllingite ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Radhakrishnaite ()*	Rutile ()*
Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Ullmannite ()*	Volynskite ()*

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: Ag Al As Au Bi C Ca Cd Cl Cu Fe H Mg Ni O Pb S Sb Si Te Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Cubanite Epidote Löllingite Marcasite
Melonite Nickeline None Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite
Spinel Tetrahedrite Ullmannite Wurtzite

30 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Altaite ()*	Rocksalt	PbTe	2	66329,66333	489
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	4	66329,66331,66333,66334	9052
Calaverite ()*	Melonite	AuTe₂	1	66333	361
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	66329,66331,66333,66334	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	66329,66331,66333,66334	27198
Cotunnite ()*	None	PbCl₂	1	66329	54
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	66333	802
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	2	66329,66333	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	66329	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	66329,66333	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	66329,66333	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	3	66330,66333,66334	2812
Hawleyite ()*	Sphalerite	CdS	1	66329	62
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	1	66329	804
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	3	66331,66333,66334	5433
Kolarite ()*	None	PbTeCl₂	1	66329	3
Löllingite ()*	Löllingite	FeAs₂	2	66331,66333	762
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	66333	451
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	4	66330,66331,66333,66334	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	66333	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	66329,66333	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	5	66329,66330,66331,66333,66334	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	66329,66330,66331,66333,66334	61156
Radhakrishnaite ()*	None	PbTe₃(Cl,S)₂	1	66329	2
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	66334	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	66329	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	66329,66330,66331,66333,66334	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	66329	5317
Ullmannite ()*	Ullmannite	NiSbS	1	66329	293
Volynskite ()*	None	AgBiTe₂	1	66329	64

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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