Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Carletonville, Western Sector, Far West Rand (West Wits Line), West Rand District (West Rand), Gauteng, South Africa

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2970
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2914

mindat Locality ID: 29346
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29346.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Carletonville, Western Sector, Far West Rand (West Wits Line), West Rand District (West Rand), Gauteng, South Africa": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Blowing Hole Cave
Doornfontein Mine
Driefontein Mine (East Driefontein Mine; West Driefontein Mine)
General Nice Mine
Kusasalethu Mine (Elandskraal Mine; Elandsrand Mine; Deelkraal Mine)
West Driefontein Cave

Latitude: 26°25'38"S
Longitude: 27°23'39"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -26.427222222222,27.394166666667

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.

Alunite	Amorphous	Aragonite	Baryte	Bismutite	Calcioferrite	Calcite	Cerite	Copper	Gypsum
Leucophosphite	None	Phosphosiderite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismutite ()*	Brushite ()*	Calcite ()*
Crandallite ()*	Evansite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hydromagnesite ()*	Leucophosphite ()*	Montgomeryite ()*	Nitromagnesite ()*	Phosphosiderite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sasaite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Strengite ()*	Variscite ()*
Whitlockite ()*

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 Au Ba Bi C Ca Fe H K Mg N O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Aragonite Baryte Bismutite Calcioferrite Calcite Cerite Copper Gypsum
Leucophosphite None Phosphosiderite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2970	2914	2	106228,106233	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2970	2914	1	106232	11547
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	2970	2914	1	106232	716
Brushite ()*	Gypsum	Ca(PO₃OH)·2H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	104
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2970	2914	2	106228,106233	27770
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	2970	2914	1	106233	310
Evansite ()*	Amorphous	Al₃(PO₄)(OH)₆·8H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	56
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2970	2914	1	106232	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2970	2914	3	106229,106230,106232	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	6890
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	341
Leucophosphite ()*	Leucophosphite	KFe³⁺₂(PO₄)₂(OH)·2H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	110
Montgomeryite ()*	Calcioferrite	Ca₄MgAl₄(PO₄)₆(OH)₄·12H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	44
Nitromagnesite ()*	None	Mg(NO₃)₂·6H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	12
Phosphosiderite ()*	Phosphosiderite	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	182
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2970	2914	1	106232	61156
Sasaite ()*	None	Al₆(PO₄)₅(OH)₃·36H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	11
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2970	2914	1	106232	21482
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	263
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	2970	2914	1	106233	301
Whitlockite ()*	Cerite	Ca₉Mg(PO₃OH)(PO₄)₆	2970	2914	1	106233	104

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
	Kristen002293	2970	2914	2970-2914		sedimentation					Yes			Co, Au, Ni	29065	West Rand District (West Rand), Gauteng, South Africa	West Rand	Robb and Meyer (1995)	10.1016/0169-1368(95)00011-9	OGR10_67	association with Co, Au, and Ni from SAJG93_70

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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