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:
Mhondoro, Kadoma District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2700
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2579

mindat Locality ID: 247527
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-247527.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mhondoro, Kadoma District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Mhondoro Mine
Ngezi Mine

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.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_702	Stratabound PGEs-Ni-Cu sulfides in mafic-ultramafic intrusion

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Hg-00053	2700	2700		Pb-Pb						Yes		Coloradoite	Hg	10977	Commoner Mine, Kadoma District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe		Twemlow (1984)		G82_469
	Michelle_702	2595	2579	2587±8		Age of deposit or general age of the metallogenic province								Ni, Cu	31182	Ngezi Mine, Mhondoro, Kadoma District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe	Great Dike	Hoatson et al. (2006)	10.1016/j.oregeorev.2006.05.002	OGR29_177	See Table. 1 Global resources of nickel metal and ages of the major nickel sulfide deposits of the world. Age can refer to the age of a specific nickel sulfide deposit, or the general age of the metallogenic province containing nickel deposits that are similar to a dated deposit (e.g. 2705 Ma Komatiite-hosted deposits in the Eastern Goldfields Province).

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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