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:
Ouro Preto District, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

mindat Locality ID: 256471
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-256471.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ouro Preto District, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Gambá Lake
Morro São Sebastião
Saramenha
Tripuí (Tripuhy)

Latitude: 20°23'21"S
Longitude: 43°30'4"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -20.389166666667,-43.501111111111

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	Copper	Corundum	Descloizite	Monazite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrochlore	Quartz
Roscherite	Rutile	Spinel	Topaz	Zircon

Cassiterite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Derbylite ()*	Descloizite ()*	Florencite-(Ce) ()*
Gold ()*	Greifensteinite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hydroxycalcioroméite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*
Kyanite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Manganite ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Scorodite ()*	Topaz ()*	Tripuhyite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*
Zircon ()*

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 As Au Be Ca Ce F Fe H Hg Mn O P Pb S Sb Si Sn Ti V Y Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Copper Corundum Descloizite Monazite None Not in a structural group Pyrochlore Quartz
Roscherite Rutile Spinel Topaz Zircon

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	27965	5171
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	27965	2600
Derbylite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₄Ti⁴⁺₃Sb³⁺O₁₃(OH)	1	27965	3
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	1	27965	378
Florencite-(Ce) ()*	Alunite	CeAl₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	27965	73
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	27965	30554
Greifensteinite ()*	Roscherite	Ca₂Be₄Fe²⁺₅(PO₄)₆(OH)₄·6H₂O	1	27964	27
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	27964,27965	14640
Hydroxycalcioroméite ()*	Pyrochlore	(Ca,Sb³⁺)₂(Sb⁵⁺,Ti)₂O₆(OH)	1	27965	11
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	1	27965	367
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	27965	1507
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	27965	14899
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	1	27964	770
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	27965	945
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	27965	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	27965	5614
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1	27964	1153
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	27964	1476
Tripuhyite ()*	Rutile	Fe³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	1	27965	66
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	27965	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	27965	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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