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:
Pofadder, Bushmanland, Northern Cape, South Africa

mindat Locality ID: 3062
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3062.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pofadder, Bushmanland, Northern Cape, South Africa": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Ondermatjie Pipe

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.

Calcite	Corundum	Feldspar	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Perovskite	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel

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 Fe K Mg O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Fe K O Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Corundum Feldspar None Not in a structural group Olivine Perovskite Quartz Rutile Spinel

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Corundum ()*	Forsterite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Microcline ()*	Perovskite ()*	Qandilite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Sillimanite ()*	Ulvöspinel ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	106958	27770
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	0		1797
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	106958	1188
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	0		5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	106958	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	0		4924
Perovskite ()*	Perovskite	CaTiO₃	1	106958	495
Qandilite ()*	Spinel	(Mg,Fe³⁺)₂(Ti,Fe³⁺,Al)O₄	1	106958	11
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	0		5614
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	0		1516
Ulvöspinel ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺₂TiO₄	1	106958	120

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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