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:
Suqian, Jiangsu, China

mindat Locality ID: 216756
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-216756.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Suqian, Jiangsu, China": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Shuyang Co.

Latitude: 34°13'30"N
Longitude: 118°58'1"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.225,118.96694444444

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	Chloritoid	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Pyrophyllite	Quartz	Rutile	Topaz

Chloritoid ()*	Epidote ()*	Graphite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kyanite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Paragonite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Topaz ()*	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 F Fe H K Na O P S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Chloritoid Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Kaolinite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Pyrophyllite Quartz Rutile Topaz

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chloritoid ()*	Chloritoid	Fe²⁺Al₂O(SiO₄)(OH)₂	1	41241	376
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	41241	8173
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	41241	2812
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	41241	5591
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	41241	1507
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	41241	17380
Paragonite ()*	Mica Clay	NaAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	41241	247
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	41241	39462
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	41241	771
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	41241	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	41241	5614
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	41241	1476
Woodhouseite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(SO₄)(PO₄)(OH)₆	1	41241	62
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	41241	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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