Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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.

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.

Alunite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Kaolinite	None	Quartz	Rutile
Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Staurolite	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 Au Ba Ca Fe H Mg Na O P Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba H O P

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Kaolinite None Quartz Rutile
Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Staurolite Zircon

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Epidote ()*	Gold ()*	Gorceixite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Magnesioferrite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Staurolite ()*	Zircon ()*

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
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			3	263661,263675,263706	8173
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	145	0	1	263676	30554
Gorceixite ()*	Alunite	BaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	145	0	0		121
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	145	0	5	263661,263675,263676,263706,263707	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			54	263661,263662,263664,263665,263666,263667,263682,263684,263685,263686,263687,263688,263690,263691,263692,263693,263694,263695,263696,263697,263698,263700,263701,263702,263704,263705,263708,263710,263711,263712,263713,263714,263716,263717,263718,263719,263720,263721,263722,263723,263724,263725,263726,263727,263728,263729,263730,263731,263732,263733,263735,263736,263737,263738	5591
Magnesioferrite ()*	Spinel	MgFe³⁺₂O₄			2	263675,263706	98
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	145	0	4	263661,263675,263676,263706	14899
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O			1	263709	1508
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	145	0	4	263661,263675,263676,263706	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	145	0	5	263661,263675,263676,263706,263707	5614
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	145	0	2	263661,263676	978
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	145	0	5	263661,263675,263676,263706,263707	5251

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
	ree-00722	145	0	Cenozoic, Cretaceous											98827	Horse Creek (Hollow Creek), Aiken Co., South Carolina, USA	Horse Creek (Aiken County)	Orris and Grauch (2002)		USGSOFR02_189

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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