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Locality Name:
Befitina, Antsirabe, Ambanja, Diana, Madagascar


mindat Locality ID: 275613
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-275613.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Befitina, Antsirabe, Ambanja, Diana, Madagascar": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Rare Earths Prospect

Latitude: 13°50'2"S
Longitude: 48°7'57"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -13.833888888889,48.1325

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Ce Fe H K O S Si Th Zn Zr 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
BaddeleyiteClayCorundumDiasporeFluoriteKaoliniteMicaNonePyriteQuartz
SphaleriteZircon

12 IMA Minerals at location:
Baddeleyite  (*)Cerianite-(Ce)  (*)Gibbsite  (*)Goethite  (*)Hematite  (*)
Kaolinite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Thorianite  (*)Zircon  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Baddeleyite  (*)BaddeleyiteZrO2179268238
Cerianite-(Ce)  (*)FluoriteCeO217926894
Gibbsite  (*)NoneAl(OH)3179268504
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)1792687437
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O317926814640
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)41792685591
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)217926817380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS217926839462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO217926861156
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS17926821482
Thorianite  (*)FluoriteThO2179268236
Zircon  (*)ZirconZr(SiO4)1792685251



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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