Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Tirodi Mine, Tirodi, Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh, India

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1000
Youngest recorded age at locality: 850

mindat Locality ID: 25310
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-25310.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tirodi Mine, Tirodi, Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh, India": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 21°41'0"N
Longitude: 79°44'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 21.683333333333,79.733333333333

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.

Amphibole	Braunite	Coronadite	Garnet	None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rhodonite

Aegirine-augite ()*	Braunite ()*	Clino-suenoite ()*	Cryptomelane ()*	Ferri-ghoseite ()*
Ferri-winchite ()*	Hollandite ()*	Magnesio-arfvedsonite ()*	Nambulite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rhodonite ()*	Spessartine ()*

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 Ba Ca Fe H K Li Mg Mn Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba Ca Fe H K Li Mg Mn Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Braunite Coronadite Garnet None Pyroxene Quartz Rhodonite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine-augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Fe³⁺,Mg,Fe²⁺)Si₂O₆	1000	850	286
Braunite ()*	Braunite	Mn²⁺Mn³⁺₆O₈(SiO₄)	1000	850	483
Clino-suenoite ()*	Amphibole	Mn²⁺₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1000	850	57
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	1000	850	599
Ferri-ghoseite ()*	Amphibole	(NaMn²⁺)(Mg₄Fe³⁺)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1000	850	14
Ferri-winchite ()*	Amphibole	(NaCa)(Mg₄Fe³⁺)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1000	850	16
Hollandite ()*	Coronadite	Ba(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	1000	850	243
Magnesio-arfvedsonite ()*	Amphibole	NaNa₂(Mg₄Fe³⁺)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1000	850	79
Nambulite ()*	Rhodonite	LiMn²⁺₄Si₅O₁₄(OH)	1000	850	12
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1000	850	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1000	850	969
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1000	850	1214

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
	Grew_Li_2019_0073	950	950	950							Yes		Nambulite		285192	Tirodi, Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh, India	Tirodi, Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh, India	Lippolt and Hautmann (1995); Mohanty et al. (2015)
	Alexandra-0177	1000	850	1000-850	U-Th-Pb	Age of pegmatite									25310	Tirodi Mine, Tirodi, Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh, India	Tirodi	Siddiquie (2015)		GJSFR15_41

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060704	Tirodi Mine, Tirodi, Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh, India	https://rruff.info/R060704

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