Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Hamadah Al Hamra, Al Jabal Al Gharbi District, Libya

mindat Locality ID: 227421
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-227421.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hamadah Al Hamra, Al Jabal Al Gharbi District, Libya": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Hammadah Al Hamra 126 Meteorite (HaH 126)
Hammadah Al Hamra 337 Meteorite (HaH 337)
Hammadah Al Hamra Meteorite (HaH 280)

Latitude: 28°48'33"N
Longitude: 12°40'49"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 28.809166666667,12.680277777778

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.

Chalcopyrite	Corundum	Iron	Melonite	Nickeline	None	Olivine	Pentlandite	Pyroxene	Spinel

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 Bi Cu Fe Mg Ni O Pt S Si Te Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Corundum Iron Melonite Nickeline None Olivine Pentlandite Pyroxene Spinel

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Enstatite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Hercynite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Iron ()*	Magnetite ()*	Moncheite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Spinel ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	78137	27198
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	78136	944
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	78135	1188
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	1	78137	407
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	78137	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	2	78135,78136	1089
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	78136,78137	14899
Moncheite ()*	Melonite	Pt(Te,Bi)₂	1	78136	133
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	78137	1512
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	78136	9056
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	78137	1934

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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