Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Guelma, Constantine Province, Algeria

mindat Locality ID: 252359
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-252359.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Guelma, Constantine Province, Algeria": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Djebel Nador
Hammam Meskoutine

Latitude: 36°25'20"N
Longitude: 7°27'54"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.422222222222,7.465

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.

Alunite	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Carminite	Nadorite	None	Pyrochlore	Rocksalt
Rutile	Spinel

Aragonite ()*	Bindheimite ()*	Calcite ()*	Carminite ()*	Celestine ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Dussertite ()*	Galena ()*	Magnetite ()*
Mimetite ()*	Nadorite ()*	Scorodite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Tripuhyite ()*
Valentinite ()*

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: Ag As Ba C Ca Cl Fe H O Pb S Sb Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Carminite Nadorite None Pyrochlore Rocksalt
Rutile Spinel

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	1394	3250
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	1	1394	450
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	1394,1395	27770
Carminite ()*	Carminite	PbFe³⁺₂(AsO₄)₂(OH)₂	1	1394	178
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	1394	1252
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	1394	4979
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	1394	1382
Dussertite ()*	Alunite	BaFe³⁺₃(AsO₄)(AsO₃OH)(OH)₆	1	1396	33
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	1394	24243
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	1394	14899
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1	1394	1107
Nadorite ()*	Nadorite	PbSb³⁺O₂Cl	1	1394	18
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	2	1394,1396	1153
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	1394	2473
Tripuhyite ()*	Rutile	Fe³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	1	1394	66
Valentinite ()*	None	Sb₂O₃	1	1394	369

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060409	Djebel Debar (Djebel Debagh), Hammam Meskoutine, Guelma, Constantine Province, Algeria	https://rruff.info/R060409

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