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:
Sal Nye Tundry, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

mindat Locality ID: 278457
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-278457.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sal Nye Tundry, Murmansk Oblast, Russia": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Elgoras Mountain

Latitude: 68°6'6"N
Longitude: 31°33'43"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 68.101666666667,31.561944444444

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	Apatite	Garnet	None	Pyroxene	Scapolite

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 Ca Cl F Fe H K Mg Na O P Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Garnet None Pyroxene Scapolite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Almandine ()*	Diopside ()*	Enstatite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Marialite ()*
Potassic-chloro-pargasite ()*	Potassic-pargasite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	103038	2353
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	103038	4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	103038	944
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	103038	2740
Marialite ()*	Scapolite	Na₄Al₃Si₉O₂₄Cl	1	103038	139
Potassic-chloro-pargasite ()*	Amphibole	KCa₂(Mg₄Al)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂Cl₂	1	103038	1
Potassic-pargasite ()*	Amphibole	KCa₂(Mg₄Al)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂	1	103038	9

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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