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:
Teso District, Eastern Region, Uganda

mindat Locality ID: 288712
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-288712.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Teso District, Eastern Region, Uganda": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Soroti Meteorite

Latitude: 1°42'0"N
Longitude: 33°37'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 1.7,33.633055555556

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.

Apatite	Aphthitalite	Copper	Cubanite	Djerfisherite	Iron	None	Pentlandite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Spinel

Alabandite ()*	Buchwaldite ()*	Chromite ()*	Copper ()*	Daubréelite ()*
Djerfisherite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Graphite ()*	Iron ()*	Isocubanite ()*
Mackinawite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Schreibersite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Taenite ()*
Troilite ()*

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: C Ca Cl Cr Cu F Fe K Mn Na Ni O P S Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aphthitalite Copper Cubanite Djerfisherite Iron None Pentlandite Rocksalt Sphalerite
Spinel

16 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	116865	312
Buchwaldite ()*	Aphthitalite	NaCa(PO₄)	1	116865	3
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	116865	3902
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	116865	3846
Daubréelite ()*	Spinel	FeCr₂S₄	1	116865	157
Djerfisherite ()*	Djerfisherite	K₆(Fe,Cu,Ni)₂₅S₂₆Cl	1	116865	60
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	116865	2740
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	116865	2812
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	116865	1089
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	1	116865	191
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	116865	451
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	116865	1512
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	1	116865	374
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	116865	21482
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	116865	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	116865	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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