Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Zavkhan Soum, Uvs Aimag, Mongolia

mindat Locality ID: 288192
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-288192.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Zavkhan Soum, Uvs Aimag, Mongolia": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Shar Tolgoi

Latitude: 49°3'30"N
Longitude: 92°44'55"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.058333333333,92.748611111111

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.

Allanite	Apatite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Mica
Molybdenite	Monazite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Titanite
Zircon

Albite ()*	Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Thorite ()*	Titanite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*
Zircon ()*

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 C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H K Mo Na Nb O P S Si Sn Th Ti Y Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Apatite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Mica
Molybdenite Monazite Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Titanite
Zircon

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	85267	8803
Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	85267	706
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	85267	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	85267	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	85267	27198
Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺Nb₂O₆	1	85267	518
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	85267	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	85267	9617
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	85267	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	85267	5800
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	85267	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	85267	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	85267	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	85267	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	85267	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	85267	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	85267	21482
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1	85267	1006
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	85267	4899
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	85267	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	85267	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...