Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Fedj-el-Adoum, Tunisia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 252
Youngest recorded age at locality: 66

mindat Locality ID: 288547
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-288547.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Fedj-el-Adoum, Tunisia": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Fedj El Adoum Mine

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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	Baryte	Calcite	Fluorite	None	Not in a structural group	Sphalerite	Sulphur	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: Ba C Ca Cd F H O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Fluorite None Not in a structural group Sphalerite Sulphur Wurtzite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Greenockite ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*

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
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	252	66	1	116189	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	252	66	1	116189	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	252	66	1	116189	4979
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	252	66	1	116189	9617
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	252	66	1	116189	717
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	252	66	1	116189	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	252	66	1	116189	1066
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	252	66	1	116189	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	252	66	1	116189	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	252	66	1	116189	2045

1 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-00217	252	66	Triassic-Cretaceous		host rock age									27831	Fedj El Adoum Mine, Fedj-el-Adoum, Tunisia	Fedj-el Adoum	Taylor et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1297

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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