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:
Orange River, Northern Cape, South Africa

mindat Locality ID: 56945
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-56945.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Orange River, Northern Cape, South Africa": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Kabis
Pella
Sandfontein

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.

Amorphous	Copper	Corundum	Feldspar	Fluorite	None	Quartz

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 Ca F Fe H K O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Copper Corundum Feldspar Fluorite None Quartz

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Corundum ()*	Fluorite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Microcline ()*
Opal ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	3	107175,107176,107177	1797
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	107176	9617
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	107176	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0		14640
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	107176	4924
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	107176	2994
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	107176	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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