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:
Talas Alatau Range (Talas Ala-Too Range), Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan

Oldest recorded age at locality: 340
Youngest recorded age at locality: 340

mindat Locality ID: 221239
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-221239.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Talas Alatau Range (Talas Ala-Too Range), Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Djabagly Mts (Zhabagly Mts)

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.

Aluminite	Alunite	Amorphous	Clay	Cyanotrichite	Gypsum	Hewettite	Kaolinite	None	Straczekite
Wavellite

Aluminite ()*	Bokite ()*	Carbonatecyanotrichite ()*	Crandallite ()*	Evansite ()*
Gorceixite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hewettite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kazakhstanite ()*
Minyulite ()*	Mitryaevaite ()*	Variscite ()*	Wavellite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K O P S Si V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aluminite Alunite Amorphous Clay Cyanotrichite Gypsum Hewettite Kaolinite None Straczekite
Wavellite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aluminite ()*	Aluminite	Al₂(SO₄)(OH)₄·7H₂O	340	340	1	77308	78
Bokite ()*	Straczekite	(Al,Fe)_1.3(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺,Fe³⁺)₈O₂₀·7.5H₂O	340	340	1	77308	10
Carbonatecyanotrichite ()*	Cyanotrichite	Cu₄Al₂(CO₃)(OH)₁₂·2H₂O	340	340	1	77308	88
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	340	340	1	77308	310
Evansite ()*	Amorphous	Al₃(PO₄)(OH)₆·8H₂O	340	340	1	77308	56
Gorceixite ()*	Alunite	BaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	340	340	1	77308	121
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	340	340	1	77308	6890
Hewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·9H₂O	340	340	1	77308	58
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	340	340	1	77308	5591
Kazakhstanite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₅V⁴⁺₃V⁵⁺₁₂O₃₉(OH)₉·9H₂O	340	340	1	77308	6
Minyulite ()*	None	KAl₂(PO₄)₂F·4H₂O	340	340	1	77308	31
Mitryaevaite ()*	None	Al₅(PO₄)₂[(P,S)O₃(OH,O)]₂F₂(OH)₂·14.5H₂O	340	340	1	77308	2
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	340	340	1	77308	301
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	340	340	1	77308	374

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	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	Age Notes
	sedcu-00502	340	340	L. Carboniferous							Yes			Cu	16634	Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan	Dzhambul	Cox et al. (2003)		USGSOFR03_107

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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