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Locality Name:
Inland Sea (Setonaikai), Hiroshima, Japan


mindat Locality ID: 288912
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-288912.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Inland Sea (Setonaikai), Hiroshima, Japan": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Ikuchi Island

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

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 As Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Mo O S Si Sn W Y Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllophaneAndalusiteBetpakdaliteBrochantiteChalcopyriteFeldsparMalachiteMixiteMolybdeniteNone
Not in a structural groupQuartzScheeliteStannoidite

18 IMA Minerals at location:
Agardite-(Y)  (*)Betpakdalite-CaCa  (*)Bornite  (*)Brochantite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)
Chrysocolla  (*)Clinoclase  (*)Cuprite  (*)Goudeyite  (*)Malachite  (*)
Molybdenite  (*)Olivenite  (*)Orthoclase  (*)Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)
Stannoidite  (*)Wittichenite  (*)Zálesíite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Agardite-(Y)  (*)MixiteYCu2+6(AsO4)3(OH)6·3H2O17459490
Betpakdalite-CaCa  (*)Betpakdalite[Ca2(H2O)17Ca(H2O)6][Mo6+8As5+2Fe3+3O36(OH)]17459315
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS41745945516
Brochantite  (*)BrochantiteCu4(SO4)(OH)61745941633
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS217459427198
Chrysocolla  (*)Allophane(Cu2-xAlx)H2-xSi2O5(OH)4·nH2O1745943531
Clinoclase  (*)NoneCu3(AsO4)(OH)3174594127
Cuprite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu2O1745942970
Goudeyite  (*)MixiteCu6Al(AsO4)3(OH)6·3H2O17459419
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)217459412537
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS21745935800
Olivenite  (*)AndalusiteCu2(AsO4)(OH)174594492
Orthoclase  (*)FeldsparK(AlSi3O8)1745942349
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO217459461156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)1745944894
Stannoidite  (*)StannoiditeCu8(Fe,Zn)3Sn2S1217459480
Wittichenite  (*)NoneCu3BiS3174594297
Zálesíite  (*)MixiteCaCu6(AsO4)2(AsO3OH)(OH)6·3H2O17459484



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

SampleSource LocalityReference URL
R070357Setoda-cho-hayashi, Ikuchi Island, Inland Sea (Setonaikai), Hiroshima, Japanhttps://rruff.info/R070357


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