Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Sinceni East Area, Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland

Oldest recorded age at locality: 3077
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2947

mindat Locality ID: 209021
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209021.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sinceni East Area, Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Pentoyz Mine

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.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
Be-00061	3000	3000	3000		high		Yes		Beryl	Be	206575	Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland	Sinceni pluton area, central Swaziland	Trumbull (1993)	10.1016/0301-9268(93)90059-B	PR61_89
Kristen002480	3077	3071	3074±3			zircon	Yes	Zircon			206575	Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland	Sinceni	Tkachev (2011)	10, 1144/SP350,2	GSLSP350_7
Kristen002481	3033	2947	2990±43	Rb/Sr		whole rock	Yes				206575	Sinceni Mtn, Lubombo District, Swaziland	Sinceni	Tkachev (2011)	10, 1144/SP350,2	GSLSP350_7

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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