Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Popigai Impact Crater, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

mindat Locality ID: 56579
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-56579.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Popigai Impact Crater, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Skalnoe Deposit

Latitude: 71°30'18"N
Longitude: 110°23'52"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 71.505,110.39777777778

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.

Amorphous	Beryl	Copper	Corundum	Cristobalite	Diamond	Feldspar	Iron	Nickeline	None
Pentlandite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Tridymite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Chaoite ()*	Cordierite ()*	Cristobalite ()*
Diamond ()*	Ferrosilite ()*	Hercynite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*
Lechatelierite ()*	Lonsdaleite ()*	Mullite ()*	Nickel ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Silicon ()*	Taenite ()*
Tridymite ()*	Troilite ()*	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 C Ca Fe Mg Na Ni O S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Fe Mg Na Ni O S Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Beryl Copper Corundum Cristobalite Diamond Feldspar Iron Nickeline None
Pentlandite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Spinel Tridymite Zircon

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	0		8803
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	0		1036
Chaoite ()*	None	C	0		5
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	0		1008
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	0		453
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	1	102545	697
Ferrosilite ()*	Pyroxene	Fe²⁺₂Si₂O₆	0		84
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	0		407
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	0		5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	0		1089
Lechatelierite ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂	0		62
Lonsdaleite ()*	None	C	1	102545	13
Mullite ()*	None	Al_4+2xSi_2-2xO_10-x (x ≈ 0.4)	0		78
Nickel ()*	Copper	Ni	0		57
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	0		1512
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	0		9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	0		5614
Silicon ()*	Diamond	Si	1	102545	21
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	0		703
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	0		458
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	0		1044
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	102545	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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