Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Lena-Angara Salt Basin, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

mindat Locality ID: 251449
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-251449.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lena-Angara Salt Basin, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Angara River
Tyret' Railway Station

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.

Amorphous	Baryte	Carnallite	Danburite	Gypsum	Hilgardite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt

Anhydrite ()*	Carnallite ()*	Celestine ()*	Danburite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Ginorite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Hilgardite ()*	Opal ()*
Quartz ()*	Sylvite ()*	Tyretskite ()*	Ulexite ()*

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: B C Ca Cl H K Mg Na O S Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: B Ca H O S Si Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Baryte Carnallite Danburite Gypsum Hilgardite None Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	102122	1588
Carnallite ()*	Carnallite	KMgCl₃·6H₂O	1	102122	132
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	0		1252
Danburite ()*	Danburite	CaB₂Si₂O₈	0		148
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	102122	9895
Ginorite ()*	None	Ca₂B₁₄O₂₀(OH)₆·5H₂O	0		11
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	102122	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	102122	1398
Hilgardite ()*	Hilgardite	Ca₂B₅O₉Cl·H₂O	1	102122	13
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	0		2994
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	1	102122	275
Tyretskite ()*	Hilgardite	Ca₂B₅O₉(OH)·H₂O	2	102121,102122	3
Ulexite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₆(OH)₆·5H₂O	1	102122	160

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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