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Locality Name:
Kandahar District, Kandahar, Afghanistan

mindat Locality ID: 226857
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-226857.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kandahar District, Kandahar, Afghanistan": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Kandahar (Afghanistan) Meteorite
Kandahar Gold Mine
Ruhabad Mine (Rukhabad Mine)

Latitude: 31°30'20"N
Longitude: 65°44'29"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.505555555556,65.741388888889

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.

Copper	Corundum	Cubanite	Iron	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Spinel

Anhydrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Copper ()*	Gold ()*	Halite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*	Isocubanite ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Quartz ()*	Taenite ()*	Thénardite ()*	Troilite ()*

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: Au Ca Cl Cr Cu Fe Na Ni O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper Corundum Cubanite Iron None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Spinel

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	706	1588
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	704	3902
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	704	3846
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	705	30554
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	706	1398
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	704	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	704	1089
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	1	704	191
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	704	451
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	704	1512
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	705	61156
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	704	703
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	1	706	299
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	704	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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