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:
Fra Mauro Highlands, The Moon

mindat Locality ID: 232344
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-232344.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Fra Mauro Highlands, The Moon": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Fra Mauro Base (Apollo 14 Landing Site)

Latitude: 3°38'43"S
Longitude: 17°24'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -3.6452777777778,-17.413055555556

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.

Apatite	Auricupride	Baddeleyite	Braunite	Cerite	Corundum	Cristobalite	Iron	None	Olivine
Pentlandite	Perovskite	Rutile	Spinel	Tridymite

Awaruite ()*	Baddeleyite ()*	Chromite ()*	Corundum ()*	Cristobalite ()*
Fayalite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Hercynite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*
Merrillite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Rutile ()*	Schreibersite ()*	Spinel ()*
Tranquillityite ()*	Tridymite ()*	Troilite ()*	Ulvöspinel ()*	Yoshiokaite ()*

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 Ca Cr F Fe Mg Na Ni O P S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Auricupride Baddeleyite Braunite Cerite Corundum Cristobalite Iron None Olivine
Pentlandite Perovskite Rutile Spinel Tridymite

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Awaruite ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Ni₃Fe	1	116053	166
Baddeleyite ()*	Baddeleyite	ZrO₂	1	116053	238
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	116053	3902
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	116053	1797
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	116053	453
Fayalite ()*	Olivine	Fe²⁺₂(SiO₄)	1	116053	371
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	116053	2740
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	1	116053	407
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	116053	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	116053	1089
Merrillite ()*	Cerite	Ca₉NaMg(PO₄)₇	1	116053	230
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	116053	1512
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	116053	5614
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	1	116053	374
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	116053	1934
Tranquillityite ()*	Braunite	Fe²⁺₈Ti₃Zr₂Si₃O₂₄	1	116053	17
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	116053	458
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	116053	1044
Ulvöspinel ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺₂TiO₄	1	116053	120
Yoshiokaite ()*	None	Ca_1-x(Al,Si)₂O₄	1	116053	1

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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