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:
Adola Belt (Adola Gold Field), Oromia Region (Oromiya Region), Ethiopia

mindat Locality ID: 250399
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-250399.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Adola Belt (Adola Gold Field), Oromia Region (Oromiya Region), Ethiopia": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Adola Gold Mine
Adola Valley Placers
Anno Talc Deposit
Chembi Area

Latitude: 5°29'5"N
Longitude: 39°6'54"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 5.4847222222222,39.115

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.

Clay	Copper	Kaolinite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Talc

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 Au H Mg O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Copper Kaolinite None Not in a structural group Quartz Talc

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Quartz ()*	Talc ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	49501,49502	30554
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	49504	5591
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	49504	1507
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	49501,49504	61156
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2	49501,49503	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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