Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Meob Bay Uranium, Daweb, Hardap Region, Namibia

mindat Locality ID: 305833
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-305833.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Meob Bay Uranium, Daweb, Hardap Region, Namibia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 24°26'59"S
Longitude: 14°38'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -24.449722222222,14.649722222222

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Compreignacite	Diaspore	Fritzscheite	Gypsum	Mica	None
Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt	Schoepite

Anglesite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Becquerelite ()*
Calcite ()*	Carnotite ()*	Compreignacite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Goethite ()*
Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Leonite ()*	Metaschoepite ()*	Metastudtite ()*
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Mirabilite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rossite ()*
Rutherfordine ()*	Schoepite ()*

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 C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Si U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Si U V

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Compreignacite Diaspore Fritzscheite Gypsum Mica None
Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt Schoepite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2734
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1588
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Becquerelite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₆O₄(OH)₆·8H₂O	92
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	1184
Compreignacite ()*	Compreignacite	K₂(UO₂)₆O₄(OH)₆·7H₂O	27
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	9895
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1398
Leonite ()*	None	K₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	24
Metaschoepite ()*	Schoepite	(UO₂)₈O₂(OH)₁₂·10H₂O	17
Metastudtite ()*	None	UO₄·2H₂O	3
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Fritzscheite	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	129
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	223
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Rossite ()*	None	Ca(VO₃)₂·4H₂O	29
Rutherfordine ()*	None	(UO₂)(CO₃)	58
Schoepite ()*	Schoepite	(UO₂)₄O(OH)₆(H₂O)₆	94

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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