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:
Lobaye River (Bali River), Lobaye Prefecture, Central African Republic

mindat Locality ID: 279725
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-279725.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lobaye River (Bali River), Lobaye Prefecture, Central African Republic": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Bali Meteorite

Latitude: 5°22'58"N
Longitude: 16°22'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 5.3827777777778,16.383055555556

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.

Cancrinite-sodalite	Clay	Feldspar	Garnet	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pentlandite	Pyroxene	Smectite-vermiculite
Sodalite	Spinel	Tridymite	Wollastonite

Andradite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Augite ()*	Enstatite ()*	Fayalite ()*
Forsterite ()*	Hedenbergite ()*	Larnite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Nepheline ()*
Pentlandite ()*	Pigeonite ()*	Saponite ()*	Sodalite ()*	Spinel ()*
Wollastonite ()*

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 Fe H K Mg Na Ni O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Cancrinite-sodalite Clay Feldspar Garnet None Not in a structural group Olivine Pentlandite Pyroxene Smectite-vermiculite
Sodalite Spinel Tridymite Wollastonite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	35460	1534
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1	35460	1036
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	35460	2060
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	35460	944
Fayalite ()*	Olivine	Fe²⁺₂(SiO₄)	1	35460	371
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	35460	1188
Hedenbergite ()*	Pyroxene	CaFe²⁺Si₂O₆	1	35460	741
Larnite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca₂(SiO₄)	1	35460	48
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	35460	14899
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	1	35460	884
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	35460	1512
Pigeonite ()*	Pyroxene	(Mg,Fe,Ca)₂Si₂O₆	1	35460	303
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	35460	301
Sodalite ()*	Cancrinite-sodalite Sodalite	Na₄(Si₃Al₃)O₁₂Cl	1	35460	444
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	35460	1934
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	35460	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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