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:
Toteng, North-West District, Botswana

mindat Locality ID: 272113
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-272113.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Toteng, North-West District, Botswana": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Boseto Exploration Area

Latitude: 20°33'5"S
Longitude: 22°57'37"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -20.551388888889,22.960277777778

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chalcostibite	Digenite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Potarite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite

Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Digenite ()*
Emplectite ()*	Galena ()*	Kotulskite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Potarite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stromeyerite ()*	Temagamite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cu Fe Hg Mo O Pb Pd S Si Te Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Chalcostibite Digenite Molybdenite Nickeline None Potarite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	26897	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	26897	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	26897	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	26897	27198
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	26897	1027
Emplectite ()*	Chalcostibite	CuBiS₂	1	26897	246
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	26897	24243
Kotulskite ()*	Nickeline	Pd(Te,Bi)_2-x (x ≈ 0.4)	1	26897	116
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	26897	5800
Potarite ()*	Potarite	PdHg	1	26897	25
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	26897	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	26897	21482
Stromeyerite ()*	None	CuAgS	1	26897	332
Temagamite ()*	None	Pd₃HgTe₃	1	26897	24

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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