Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India

mindat Locality ID: 288035
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-288035.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Muzaffarpur Meteorite
Parsa Meteorite

Latitude: 26°9'59"N
Longitude: 85°27'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 26.166388888889,85.466388888889

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.

Iron	None	Pyroxene	Rocksalt	Scacchite	Spinel

Alabandite ()*	Caswellsilverite ()*	Daubréelite ()*	Enstatite ()*	Iron ()*
Magnetite ()*	Niningerite ()*	Oldhamite ()*	Perryite ()*	Schreibersite ()*
Spinel ()*	Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*	Wüstite ()*

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 Cr Fe Mg Mn Na Ni O P S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Iron None Pyroxene Rocksalt Scacchite Spinel

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	1	66111	312
Caswellsilverite ()*	Scacchite	NaCrS₂	1	66111	5
Daubréelite ()*	Spinel	FeCr₂S₄	1	66111	157
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	66111	944
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	2	66110,66111	1089
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	66110	14899
Niningerite ()*	Rocksalt	MgS	1	66111	28
Oldhamite ()*	Rocksalt	CaS	1	66111	58
Perryite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)₈(Si,P)₃	1	66111	25
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	2	66110,66111	374
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	66111	1934
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	2	66110,66111	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	66111	1044
Wüstite ()*	Rocksalt	FeO	1	66110	74

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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