Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Birkeland 02 Feldspar Quarry, Birkeland, Iveland, Aust-Agder, Norway

mindat Locality ID: 35597
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-35597.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Birkeland 02 Feldspar Quarry, Birkeland, Iveland, Aust-Agder, Norway": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 58°32'2"N
Longitude: 7°55'30"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 58.533888888889,7.925

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.

Allanite	Arsenic	Bastnäsite	Bismutite	Clay	Columbite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluocerite
Fluorite	Garnet	Mica	None	Quartz	Stibnite	Topaz	Zircon

Albite ()*	Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Bastnäsite-(Ce) ()*	Bismite ()*	Bismuth ()*
Bismuthinite ()*	Bismutite ()*	Cerianite-(Ce) ()*	Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Fluocerite-(Ce) ()*
Fluorite ()*	Hematite ()*	Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrophanite ()*
Quartz ()*	Spessartine ()*	Thorite ()*	Topaz ()*	Tveitite-(Y) ()*
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Bi C Ca Ce F Fe H K Mn Na Nb O P REE S Si Ta Th Ti U Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Bi C Ca Ce F Fe H K Mn Na Nb O P REE S Si Th Ti Y Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Arsenic Bastnäsite Bismutite Clay Columbite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Fluocerite
Fluorite Garnet Mica None Quartz Stibnite Topaz Zircon

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	706
Bastnäsite-(Ce) ()*	Bastnäsite	Ce(CO₃)F	304
Bismite ()*	None	Bi₂O₃	214
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	716
Cerianite-(Ce) ()*	Fluorite	CeO₂	94
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	414
Fluocerite-(Ce) ()*	Fluocerite	CeF₃	45
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9617
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	14640
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Pyrophanite ()*	Corundum	Mn²⁺TiO₃	244
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1214
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1006
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1476
Tveitite-(Y) ()*	None	(Y,Na)₆(Ca,Na,REE)₁₂(Ca,Na)F₄₂	8
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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