Mineral Evolution Database

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

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Minerals queried: Bikitaite

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			Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	mindat ID	Locality containing Mineral	Country	Tectonic Settings	Dated Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Reference (Max Age)	Reference (Min Age)	Excel ID (Max Age)	Excel ID (Min Age)	Query Minerals	# of Query Minerals at Locality	Lat Deg	Lat Min	Lat Sec	Lon Deg	Lon Min	Lon Sec	Decimal Degree
		P	2642	2601	8188	Canada	Canada				CM40_753	CMP147_549	Grew_Li_2019_0025	Alexandra-0198	Bikitaite	1	53	20	27	-90	-3	-40	53.340833333333,-90.061111111111
		P	2642	2601	14233	Ontario, Canada	Canada				CM40_753	CMP147_549	Grew_Li_2019_0025	Alexandra-0198	Bikitaite	1	44	48	32	-80	-13	-40	44.808888888889,-80.227777777778
		P	2642	2601	577	Kenora District, Ontario, Canada	Canada				CM40_753	CMP147_549	Grew_Li_2019_0025	Alexandra-0198	Bikitaite	1	50	30	16	-92	-43	-36	50.504444444444,-92.726666666667
		P	2642	2601	255694	Paterson Lake Area, Kenora District, Ontario, Canada	Canada				CM40_753	CMP147_549	Grew_Li_2019_0025	Alexandra-0198	Bikitaite	1	50	16	0	-94	-32	-10	50.266666666667,-94.536111111111
MD		O	2642	2601	244373	Big Mack Pegmatite, Paterson Lake Area, Kenora District, Ontario, Canada	Canada		244373	Big Mack Pegmatite, Paterson Lake Area, Kenora District, Ontario, Canada	CM40_753	CMP147_549	Grew_Li_2019_0025	Alexandra-0198	Bikitaite	1	50	16	12	-94	-35	-31	50.27,-94.591944444444
		P	351	345	3366	USA	USA				CM52_183	CM50_1589	Bradley_2012_149	Be-00021	Bikitaite	1	37	49	12	-83	-42	-49	37.82,-83.713611111111
		P	351	345	4033	North Carolina, USA	USA				CM52_183	CM50_1589	Bradley_2012_149	Be-00021	Bikitaite	1	35	37	20	-79	-53	-19	35.622222222222,-79.888611111111
		P	351	345	24032	Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA	USA				CM52_183	CM50_1589	Bradley_2012_149	Be-00021	Bikitaite	1	35	21	10	-81	-33	-39	35.352777777778,-81.560833333333
		P	351	345	14555	Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA	USA				CM52_183	CM50_1589	Bradley_2012_149	Be-00021	Bikitaite	1	35	12	28	-81	-21	-54	35.207777777778,-81.365
MD		O	351	345	3280	Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA	USA		3280	Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA	CM52_183	CM50_1589	Bradley_2012_149	Be-00021	Bikitaite	1	35	12	39	-81	-21	-20	35.210833333333,-81.355555555556
		P	2615	2587	21891	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe				GSLSP350_7	GSLSP350_7	Kristen002502	Kristen002502	Bikitaite	1	-18	-56	-36	30	23	33	-18.943333333333,30.3925
		P	2615	2587	24209	Masvingo, Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe				GSLSP350_7	GSLSP350_7	Kristen002502	Kristen002502	Bikitaite	1	-20	-14	-54	31	18	17	-20.248333333333,31.304722222222
		P	2615	2587	293936	Bikita Area, Masvingo, Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe				GSLSP350_7	GSLSP350_7	Kristen002502	Kristen002502	Bikitaite	1	-19	-56	-59	31	26	0	-19.949722222222,31.433333333333
MD		O	2615	2587	4351	Bikita Pegmatite, Bikita Area, Masvingo, Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe		4351	Bikita Pegmatite, Bikita Area, Masvingo, Zimbabwe	GSLSP350_7	GSLSP350_7	Kristen002502	Kristen002502	Bikitaite	1	-19	-56	-60	31	25	60	-19.95,31.433333333333
MD					56743	Nolan Property, Bikita Area, Masvingo, Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe								Bikitaite	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0,0

This mineral directly occurs at 4 localities (4 localities according to mindat, 15 localities if parents are counted as well)
Of the 4 localities at which this mineral occurs, 3 have an age. (14 of the 15 parent localities have ages)

MD	The mineral occurs at this locality according to MED, but does not have an age yet.
MD	The mineral occurs at this locality according to MED, and has an age.
	The mineral occurs at some child of this locality.
	The locality at which the mineral occurs does not have an age...this is the closest parent locality with an age, relative to that mineral. This is not ideal.

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.

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If a locality has both a GPS coordinate, and either contains or has at least one child locality containing at least one of the minerals listed above, then this map displays a single marker for that locality.

This bottom-level locality is directly dated. (3 total)

This locality is directly dated, but is not bottom-level. (0 total)

This locality is not directly dated, and is not bottom-level. (11 total)

This bottom-level locality has an age assigned to it from some other locality. (0 total)

This locality does not have an age assigned to it. (1 bottom-level + 0 top/mid-level = 1 total)

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