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:
Drin Valley, Shkodër County (Shkodra County), Albania

mindat Locality ID: 281303
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-281303.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Drin Valley, Shkodër County (Shkodra County), Albania": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Koman Deposit (Komana)

Latitude: 42°5'37"N
Longitude: 19°48'51"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.093611111111,19.814166666667

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.

Aragonite	Arsenic	Arsenolite	Baryte	Calcite	Diaspore	Gypsum	Marcasite	None	Orpiment
Quartz	Spinel	Stibnite

Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Arsenic ()*	Arsenolite ()*	Baryte ()*
Calcite ()*	Dawsonite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Gibbsite ()*	Goethite ()*
Greigite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Marcasite ()*	Orpiment ()*	Pharmacolite ()*
Quartz ()*	Realgar ()*	Stibnite ()*

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 As Ba C Ca Fe H Mg Na O S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenic Arsenolite Baryte Calcite Diaspore Gypsum Marcasite None Orpiment
Quartz Spinel Stibnite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	1312	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	1312	3250
Arsenic ()*	Arsenic	As	1	1312	379
Arsenolite ()*	Arsenolite	As₂O₃	1	1312	231
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	1312	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	1312	27770
Dawsonite ()*	None	NaAl(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	1312	90
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	1312	9895
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	1	1312	504
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	1312	7437
Greigite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂S₄	1	1312	62
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	1312	6890
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	1312	5674
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃	1	1312	511
Pharmacolite ()*	Gypsum	Ca(AsO₃OH)·2H₂O	1	1312	105
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	1312	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	1	1312	712
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	1312	3418

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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