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: Melkovite

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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	2640	2620	151	Australia	Australia				EG90_845	EG90_845	Mo-00401	Mo-00401	Melkovite	1	-31	-5	-22	139	7	41	-31.089444444444,139.12805555556
		P	2640	2620	15624	Western Australia, Australia	Australia				EG90_845	EG90_845	Mo-00401	Mo-00401	Melkovite	1	-29	-41	-16	118	7	3	-29.687777777778,118.1175
		P	2640	2620	146997	Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Australia				EG90_845	EG90_845	Mo-00401	Mo-00401	Melkovite	1	-33	-43	-48	120	6	51	-33.73,120.11416666667
MD		Y	2640	2620	191996	Fitzgerald River District, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Australia		191996	Fitzgerald River District, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia	EG90_845	EG90_845	Mo-00401	Mo-00401	Melkovite	1	-33	-59	-11	119	20	44	-33.986388888889,119.34555555556
					638	Chile	Chile								Melkovite	1	-33	-48	-28	-71	-47	-30	-33.807777777778,-71.791666666667
					645	Atacama, Chile	Chile								Melkovite	1	-27	-34	-59	-70	-1	-27	-27.583055555556,-70.024166666667
					657	Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile	Chile								Melkovite	1	-27	-29	-16	-70	-2	-42	-27.487777777778,-70.045
					52987	Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile	Chile								Melkovite	1	-27	-24	-8	-69	-51	-8	-27.402222222222,-69.852222222222
MD					179940	Los Azules Mine, Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile	Chile								Melkovite	1	-27	-24	-9	-69	-51	-9	-27.4025,-69.8525
		P	289.2	288.2	14553	Italy	Italy				MESD2003_247	MESD2003_247	Mo-00224	Mo-00224	Melkovite	1	42	32	7	12	16	57	42.535277777778,12.2825
		P	289.2	288.2	2119	Sardinia, Italy	Italy				MESD2003_247	MESD2003_247	Mo-00224	Mo-00224	Melkovite	1	39	48	11	8	59	46	39.803055555556,8.9961111111111
		P	289.2	288.2	297622	Cagliari Metropolitan City (Metropolitan City Of Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy	Italy				MESD2003_247	MESD2003_247	Mo-00224	Mo-00224	Melkovite	1	39	8	52	9	5	49	39.147777777778,9.0969444444444
		P	289.2	288.2	192734	Sarroch, Cagliari Metropolitan City (Metropolitan City Of Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy	Italy				MESD2003_247	MESD2003_247	Mo-00224	Mo-00224	Melkovite	1	39	4	53	8	58	35	39.081388888889,8.9763888888889
MD		Y	289.2	288.2	30503	Punta De Su Seinargiu (Su Seinargiu; Su Senargiu), Sarroch, Cagliari Metropolitan City (Metropolitan City Of Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy	Italy		30503	Punta De Su Seinargiu (Su Seinargiu; Su Senargiu), Sarroch, Cagliari Metropolitan City (Metropolitan City Of Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy	MESD2003_247	MESD2003_247	Mo-00224	Mo-00224	Melkovite	1	39	4	53	8	58	36	39.081388888889,8.9766666666667
					2207	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan								Melkovite	1	48	17	30	68	49	45	48.291666666667,68.829166666667
					4648	Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan								Melkovite	1	48	13	36	71	42	59	48.226666666667,71.716388888889
					302648	Shet, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan								Melkovite	1	47	58	49	73	31	37	47.980277777778,73.526944444444
					302676	Mointy (Moyynty), Shet, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan								Melkovite	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0,0
					23269	Mointy Railway Station, Mointy (Moyynty), Shet, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan								Melkovite	1	47	13	0	73	19	0	47.216666666667,73.316666666667
					274890	Shunak Mts, Mointy Railway Station, Mointy (Moyynty), Shet, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan								Melkovite	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0,0
MD					23268	U-Mo Occurrence, Shunak Mts, Mointy Railway Station, Mointy (Moyynty), Shet, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan								Melkovite	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0,0

This mineral directly occurs at 4 localities (4 localities according to mindat, 21 localities if parents are counted as well)
Of the 4 localities at which this mineral occurs, 2 have an age. (9 of the 21 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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This bottom-level locality is directly dated. (2 total)

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

This locality is not directly dated, and is not bottom-level. (7 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 + 11 top/mid-level = 12 total)

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