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:
Baltasound-Haroldswick Area, Unst, Shetland, Scotland, UK

mindat Locality ID: 225718
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-225718.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Baltasound-Haroldswick Area, Unst, Shetland, Scotland, UK": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Hagdale Quarry
Nikka Vord
Setters Quarry

Latitude: 60°46'21"N
Longitude: 0°-50'-9"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 60.7725,-0.83583333333333

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.

Amorphous	Aragonite	Brucite	Chlorite	Clay	Corrensite	Diaspore	Garnet	Hydrotalcite	None
Pentlandite	Serpentine	Spinel	Woodwardite

Aragonite ()*	Chromite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Dozyite ()*
Dypingite ()*	Goethite ()*	Grossular ()*	Heazlewoodite ()*	Honessite ()*
Hydrohonessite ()*	Magnesiochromite ()*	Nakauriite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Reevesite ()*
Theophrastite ()*	Zaratite ()*

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 Cu Fe H Mg Ni O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Aragonite Brucite Chlorite Clay Corrensite Diaspore Garnet Hydrotalcite None
Pentlandite Serpentine Spinel Woodwardite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	122861	3250
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	2	122861,122862	3902
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	122861	951
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	2	122861,122862	1756
Dozyite ()*	Corrensite Clay	Mg₇Al₂(Si₄Al₂)O₁₅(OH)₁₂	1	122862	3
Dypingite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·5H₂O	1	122861	50
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	122861	7437
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	122861	1544
Heazlewoodite ()*	None	Ni₃S₂	1	122861	205
Honessite ()*	Woodwardite Hydrotalcite	(Ni_1-xFe³⁺_x)(SO₄)_x/2(OH)₂·nH₂O (x < 0.5, n < 3x/2)	1	122861	25
Hydrohonessite ()*	Woodwardite Hydrotalcite	(Ni_1-xFe³⁺_x)(SO₄)_x/2(OH)₂·nH₂O (x < 0.5, n > 3x/2)	1	122861	12
Magnesiochromite ()*	Spinel	MgCr₂O₄	1	122862	311
Nakauriite ()*	None	Cu₈(SO₄)₄(CO₃)(OH)₆·48H₂O	1	122861	12
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	122861	1512
Reevesite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Ni₆Fe³⁺₂(CO₃)(OH)₁₆·4H₂O	1	122861	48
Theophrastite ()*	Brucite	Ni(OH)₂	1	122861	6
Zaratite ()*	Amorphous	Ni₃(CO₃)(OH)₄·4H₂O	1	122861	56

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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