Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Hizen-cho, Karatsu City (Higashi-Matsuura-gun), Saga, Japan

mindat Locality ID: 29034
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29034.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hizen-cho, Karatsu City (Higashi-Matsuura-gun), Saga, Japan": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Kirigo
Mitsukoshi
Niikoba

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.

Amorphous	Ancylite	Aragonite	Calcite	Lanthanite	None	Olivine	Tengerite

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Hizenite-(Y) ()*	Kimuraite-(Y) ()*
Kozoite-(La) ()*	Kozoite-(Nd) ()*	Lanthanite-(La) ()*	Lanthanite-(Nd) ()*	Lokkaite-(Y) ()*
Opal ()*	Tengerite-(Y) ()*

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 H La Mg Nd O Si Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Ancylite Aragonite Calcite Lanthanite None Olivine Tengerite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	76267,76268	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	76267,76268,76269	27770
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	76268	1188
Hizenite-(Y) ()*	Tengerite	Ca₂Y₆(CO₃)₁₁·14H₂O	1	76268	1
Kimuraite-(Y) ()*	Tengerite	CaY₂(CO₃)₄·6H₂O	3	76267,76268,76269	10
Kozoite-(La) ()*	Ancylite	La(CO₃)(OH)	2	76268,76269	3
Kozoite-(Nd) ()*	Ancylite	Nd(CO₃)(OH)	2	76268,76269	3
Lanthanite-(La) ()*	Lanthanite	La₂(CO₃)₃·8H₂O	1	76269	10
Lanthanite-(Nd) ()*	Lanthanite	Nd₂(CO₃)₃·8H₂O	3	76267,76268,76269	10
Lokkaite-(Y) ()*	Tengerite	CaY₄(CO₃)₇·9H₂O	2	76267,76268	10
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2	76268,76269	2994
Tengerite-(Y) ()*	Tengerite	Y₂(CO₃)₃·2-3H₂O	1	76268	24

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050586	Mitsukoshi, Hizen-cho, Karatsu City (Higashi-Matsuura-gun), Saga, Japan	https://rruff.info/R050586
R060995	Mitsukoshi, Hizen-cho, Karatsu City (Higashi-Matsuura-gun), Saga, Japan	https://rruff.info/R060995
R060996	Mitsukoshi, Hizen-cho, Karatsu City (Higashi-Matsuura-gun), Saga, Japan	https://rruff.info/R060996
R060993	Mitsukoshi, Hizen-cho, Karatsu City (Higashi-Matsuura-gun), Saga, Japan	https://rruff.info/R060993
R061092	Mitsukoshi, Hizen-cho, Karatsu City (Higashi-Matsuura-gun), Saga, Japan	https://rruff.info/R061092

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