Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Derudeb District, Red Sea Hills, Red Sea, Sudan

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1600
Youngest recorded age at locality: 541

mindat Locality ID: 281906
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-281906.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Derudeb District, Red Sea Hills, Red Sea, Sudan": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Abu Samar

Latitude: 17°57'59"N
Longitude: 36°21'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 17.966388888889,36.35

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.

Chalcopyrite	Copper	Cubanite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel
Stibnite	Wurtzite

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 As Bi Cu Fe Mn Mo O Pb S Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Copper Cubanite Molybdenite Nickeline None Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel
Stibnite Wurtzite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Bismuthinite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Galena ()*	Jacobsite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Realgar ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1600	541	1	111068	1935
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1600	541	1	111068	27198
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1600	541	1	111068	802
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1600	541	1	111068	24243
Jacobsite ()*	Spinel	Mn²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1600	541	1	111068	172
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1600	541	1	111068	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1600	541	1	111068	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1600	541	1	111068	9056
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	1600	541	1	111068	712
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1600	541	1	111068	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1600	541	1	111068	21482

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedexmvt-00213	1600	1000	Mesoproterozoic		host rock age									38284	Abu Samar, Derudeb District, Red Sea Hills, Red Sea, Sudan	Abu Samar	Taylor et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1297
	sedznpb-00416	1000	541	Neoproterozoic											38284	Abu Samar, Derudeb District, Red Sea Hills, Red Sea, Sudan	Abu Samar	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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