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:
Maurbhanj District, Odisha, India

mindat Locality ID: 292237
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-292237.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Maurbhanj District, Odisha, India": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Deoli Pargana

Latitude: 22°4'59"N
Longitude: 86°53'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 22.083055555556,86.899722222222

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.

Clay	Corundum	Iron	Nickeline	None	Olivine	Pentlandite	Pyroxene	Serpentine	Smectite-vermiculite
Spinel

Antigorite ()*	Augite ()*	Chromite ()*	Clinoenstatite ()*	Enstatite ()*
Forsterite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*	Magnetite ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Pigeonite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Saponite ()*	Spinel ()*	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: Al Ca Cr Fe H Mg Na Ni O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Corundum Iron Nickeline None Olivine Pentlandite Pyroxene Serpentine Smectite-vermiculite
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
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	66682	708
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	66682	2060
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	66682	3902
Clinoenstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	66682	94
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	66682	944
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	66682	1188
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	66682	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	66682	1089
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	66682	14899
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	66682	1512
Pigeonite ()*	Pyroxene	(Mg,Fe,Ca)₂Si₂O₆	1	66682	303
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	66682	9056
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	66682	301
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	66682	1934
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	66682	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	66682	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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