Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Mooinooi, Brits (Brits District), Bojanala Platinum District, North West, South Africa

mindat Locality ID: 259581
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-259581.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mooinooi, Brits (Brits District), Bojanala Platinum District, North West, South Africa": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Mooinooi Mine

Latitude: 25°43'25"S
Longitude: 27°34'9"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -25.723611111111,27.569166666667

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.

Apophyllite	Calcite	Copper	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Spinel	Tourmaline

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 B C Ca Cr F Fe H K Mg Na O Pd Pt Rh Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apophyllite Calcite Copper Natrolite None Not in a structural group Spinel Tourmaline

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Chromite ()*	Dravite ()*	Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Gold ()*
Laumontite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Palladium ()*	Platinum ()*	Rhodium ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	106792	27770
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	106792	3902
Dravite ()*	Tourmaline	NaMg₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	106792	648
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	1	106792	303
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	106792	30554
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	106792	1271
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	106792	1236
Palladium ()*	Copper	Pd	1	106792	59
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	1	106792	485
Rhodium ()*	Copper	Rh	1	106792	17

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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