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:
Nizhnyaya Tura, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 320
Youngest recorded age at locality: 276

mindat Locality ID: 310129
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-310129.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nizhnyaya Tura, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Is River
Svetly Bor

Latitude: 58°46'59"N
Longitude: 59°39'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 58.783055555556,59.666388888889

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.

Auricupride	Bowieite	Brownleeite	Copper	Haxonite	None	Perovskite	Potarite	Spinel	Xifengite

Bowieite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Cuproiridsite ()*	Gold ()*
Gupeiite ()*	Isoferroplatinum ()*	Isovite ()*	Kashinite ()*	Malanite ()*
Naquite ()*	Osmium ()*	Platinum ()*	Spinel ()*	Tetraferroplatinum ()*
Tongbaite ()*	Xifengite ()*

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 C Cr Cu Fe Hg Ir Mg O Os Pt Rh S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Auricupride Bowieite Brownleeite Copper Haxonite None Perovskite Potarite Spinel Xifengite

17 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
Bowieite ()*	Bowieite	Rh₂S₃			1	103876	33
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄			1	103876	3902
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	320	276	1	103875	2600
Cuproiridsite ()*	Spinel	Cu(Ir³⁺Ir⁴⁺)S₄	320	276	1	103875	31
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	320	276	1	103875	30554
Gupeiite ()*	None	Fe₃Si	320	276	1	103875	3
Isoferroplatinum ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Pt₃Fe	320	276	1	103875	128
Isovite ()*	Haxonite	(Cr,Fe)₂₃C₆	320	276	1	103875	2
Kashinite ()*	Bowieite	Ir₂S₃			1	103876	29
Malanite ()*	Spinel	Cu¹⁺(Ir³⁺Pt⁴⁺)S₄	320	276	1	103875	35
Naquite ()*	Brownleeite	FeSi	320	276	1	103875	8
Osmium ()*	None	Os	320	276	1	103875	169
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	320	276	2	103875,103876	485
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	320	276	1	103875	1934
Tetraferroplatinum ()*	Potarite	PtFe	320	276	1	103875	66
Tongbaite ()*	None	Cr₃C₂	320	276	1	103875	3
Xifengite ()*	Xifengite	Fe₅Si₃	320	276	1	103875	5

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
	Cr-00055	320	276		Rb-Sr			whole rock					Isovite, Tongbaite	Cr	5472	Is River, Nizhnyaya Tura, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia		Bea et al. (1997)	10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00051-6	TP276_103	charlene listed error as 12,5

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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