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:
Wancheng District, Nanyang, Henan, China

mindat Locality ID: 216638
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-216638.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wancheng District, Nanyang, Henan, China": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Du Hill (Dushan)
Yinshan 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.

Alunite	Amphibole	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite
Quartz	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Titanite	Topaz

Anorthite ()*	Chromite ()*	Epidote ()*	Graphite ()*	Kyanite ()*
Margarite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Titanite ()*	Topaz ()*	Tremolite ()*	Volkonskoite ()*
Woodhouseite ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 C Ca Cr F Fe H K Mg O P S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amphibole Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar Mica None Not in a structural group Prehnite
Quartz Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Titanite Topaz

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1	39695	1036
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	39695	3902
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	39695	8173
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	39696	2812
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	39696	1507
Margarite ()*	Mica Clay	CaAl₂Si₂Al₂O₁₀(OH)₂	1	39695	168
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	39695,39696	17380
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	39695	2273
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	39695	1898
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	39696	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	39696	5614
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	39695	4899
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	39696	1476
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	39695	2562
Volkonskoite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Ca_0.3(Cr,Mg)₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	39695	22
Woodhouseite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(SO₄)(PO₄)(OH)₆	1	39696	62
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	39695	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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