Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

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:
Witwatersrand Goldfield, Gauteng, South Africa

Oldest recorded age at locality: 3074
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2714

mindat Locality ID: 29348
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29348.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Witwatersrand Goldfield, Gauteng, South Africa": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

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.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

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
	Kristen002296	3074	2714	3074-2714		formation age								Co, Au, Ni	29348	Witwatersrand Goldfield, Gauteng, South Africa	Witwatersrand	Robb and Meyer (1995)	10.1016/0169-1368(95)00011-9	OGR10_67	association with Co, Au, and Ni from SAJG93_73

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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