Mineral Evolution Database
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Locality Name:
East Area Orebody, Catalão No. 1 Mine, Ouvidor, Catalão I Carbonatite Complex, Goiás, Brazil

Oldest recorded age at locality: 114
Youngest recorded age at locality: 77

mindat Locality ID: 236722
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-236722.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "East Area Orebody, Catalão No. 1 Mine, Ouvidor, Catalão I Carbonatite Complex, Goiás, Brazil": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:
Age IDLocality Notes
Jen_0000689MAGMATIC STYLE: Major intrusion and veins. ASSOCIATED SILICATE ROCKS: Pyroxenite, serpentinized peridotite, glimmerite, nepheline syenite, fenite, silexite.
Jen_0000690MAGMATIC STYLE: Major intrusion and veins. ASSOCIATED SILICATE ROCKS: Pyroxenite, serpentinized peridotite, glimmerite, nepheline syenite, fenite, silexite.
Jen_0001139MAGMATIC STYLE: Major intrusion. ASSOCIATED SILICATE ROCKS: Phoscorite, glimmerite, fenite.


3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
Jen_000068987.178.782.9±4.2K-Ar    Yes  145962Catalão No. 1 Mine, Ouvidor, Catalão I Carbonatite Complex, Goiás, BrazilCatalao IWoolley and Kjarsgaard (2008)10.4095/225115GSCOF5796 
Jen_0000690114114114Fission Track apatite  Yes  145962Catalão No. 1 Mine, Ouvidor, Catalão I Carbonatite Complex, Goiás, BrazilCatalao IWoolley and Kjarsgaard (2008)10.4095/225115GSCOF5796 
Jen_000113997.27787.1±10.1fission-track apatite  Yes  145963Catalão No. 2 Mine, Ouvidor, Catalão I Carbonatite Complex, Goiás, BrazilCatalão IIWoolley and Kjarsgaard (2008)10.4095/225115GSCOF5796 


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