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:
Bigadiç Mine, Bigadiç, Balikesir Province, Marmara Region, Turkey

mindat Locality ID: 8682
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-8682.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bigadiç Mine, Bigadiç, Balikesir Province, Marmara Region, Turkey": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 39°24'0"N
Longitude: 28°8'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.4,28.133333333333

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	Analcime	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Gypsum	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz
Smectite-vermiculite

Analcime ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Colemanite ()*
Gypsum ()*	Howlite ()*	Hydroboracite ()*	Inyoite ()*	Meyerhofferite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Priceite ()*	Probertite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rivadavite ()*	Tertschite ()*	Tunellite ()*	Ulexite ()*

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 B C Ca H K Mg Na O S Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al B C Ca H K Mg Na O S Si Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Baryte Calcite Clay Gypsum Mica None Not in a structural group Quartz
Smectite-vermiculite

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1627
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1588
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1252
Colemanite ()*	None	CaB₃O₄(OH)₃·H₂O	144
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Howlite ()*	None	Ca₂SiB₅O₉(OH)₅	36
Hydroboracite ()*	None	CaMg[B₃O₄(OH)₃]₂·3H₂O	42
Inyoite ()*	None	CaB₃O₃(OH)₅·4H₂O	34
Meyerhofferite ()*	None	CaB₃O₃(OH)₅·H₂O	23
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2994
Priceite ()*	None	Ca₂B₅O₇(OH)₅·H₂O	33
Probertite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₇(OH)₄·3H₂O	29
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Rivadavite ()*	None	Na₆Mg[B₆O₇(OH)₆]₄·10H₂O	4
Tertschite ()*	None	Ca₄B₁₀O₁₉·20H₂O	2
Tunellite ()*	None	SrB₆O₉(OH)₂·3H₂O	12
Ulexite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₆(OH)₆·5H₂O	160

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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