Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Oraviţa Skarns, Banat Mts, Caraş-Severin, Romania

mindat Locality ID: 241656
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-241656.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Oraviţa Skarns, Banat Mts, Caraş-Severin, Romania": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Crişenilor Brook

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

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.

Allophane	Apatite	Aragonite	Brucite	Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Ettringite	Feldspar	Fluorite
Garnet	Melilite	Mica	Natrolite	Nickeline	None	Olivine	Perovskite	Pyroxene	Serpentine
Spinel	Spurrite-Afwillite	Talc	Titanite	Tobermorite	Vesuvianite	Wollastonite

Afwillite ()*	Albite ()*	Allophane ()*	Andradite ()*	Aragonite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Clintonite ()*	Diopside ()*
Fluorite ()*	Fukalite ()*	Gehlenite ()*	Glaucochroite ()*	Grossular ()*
Hydroxylellestadite ()*	Kirschsteinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Monticellite ()*	Morimotoite ()*
Orthoclase ()*	Perovskite ()*	Plombièrite ()*	Portlandite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Scolecite ()*	Spurrite ()*	Talc ()*	Thaumasite ()*	Tilleyite ()*
Titanite ()*	Tobermorite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Wollastonite ()*	Xonotlite ()*

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 F Fe H K Mg Mn Na O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca F H Mg O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Apatite Aragonite Brucite Calcite Chlorite Clay Ettringite Feldspar Fluorite
Garnet Melilite Mica Natrolite Nickeline None Olivine Perovskite Pyroxene Serpentine
Spinel Spurrite-Afwillite Talc Titanite Tobermorite Vesuvianite Wollastonite

35 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Afwillite ()*	Spurrite-Afwillite	Ca₃[SiO₄][SiO₂(OH)₂]·2H₂O	0		41
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	101112	8803
Allophane ()*	Allophane	Al₂O₃(SiO₂)_1.3-2.0·2.5-3.0H₂O	1	101112	470
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	101112	1534
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	101112	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	101112	27770
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	0		951
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	101112	1756
Clintonite ()*	Mica Clay	CaAlMg₂(SiAl₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	101112	86
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	101112	4135
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Fukalite ()*	None	Ca₄Si₂O₆(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	101112	8
Gehlenite ()*	Melilite	Ca₂Al(SiAl)O₇	1	101112	114
Glaucochroite ()*	Olivine	CaMn²⁺(SiO₄)	1	101112	7
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	101112	1544
Hydroxylellestadite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(SiO₄)_1.5(SO₄)_1.5OH	1	101112	22
Kirschsteinite ()*	Olivine	CaFe²⁺(SiO₄)	1	101112	33
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	101112	14899
Monticellite ()*	Olivine	CaMg(SiO₄)	1	101112	153
Morimotoite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃(TiFe²⁺)(SiO₄)₃	1	101112	6
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	101112	2349
Perovskite ()*	Perovskite	CaTiO₃	1	101112	495
Plombièrite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₆(OH)₂(H₂O)₂·(Ca·5H₂O)	0		28
Portlandite ()*	Brucite	Ca(OH)₂	1	101112	51
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	101112	9056
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	1	101112	390
Spurrite ()*	Spurrite-Afwillite	Ca₅(SiO₄)₂(CO₃)	0		54
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	101112	3337
Thaumasite ()*	Ettringite	Ca₃Si(OH)₆(CO₃)(SO₄)·12H₂O	0		183
Tilleyite ()*	None	Ca₅Si₂O₇(CO₃)₂	0		19
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	101112	4899
Tobermorite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₇(H₂O)₂·(Ca·3H₂O)	1	101112	114
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1	101112	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	101112	1247
Xonotlite ()*	None	Ca₆Si₆O₁₇(OH)₂	0		109

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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