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: Schmitterite

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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	1800	64	14231	DR Congo	DR Congo				AG9_713	OGR40_81	Giersdorf_00000820	Kristen002336	Schmitterite	1	-4	-1	-53	25	15	14	-4.0313888888889,25.253888888889
		P	1800	64	306391	Haut-Katanga, DR Congo	DR Congo				AG9_713	OGR40_81	Giersdorf_00000820	Kristen002336	Schmitterite	1	-10	-44	-22	27	35	6	-10.739444444444,27.585
		P	1800	64	18222	Kambove District, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo	DR Congo	Collisional Boundary			AG9_713	OGR40_81	Giersdorf_00000820	Kristen002336	Schmitterite	1	-10	-57	-51	26	39	11	-10.964166666667,26.653055555556
		P	1800	64	44125	Shinkolobwe, Kambove District, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo	DR Congo				AG9_713	OGR40_81	Giersdorf_00000820	Kristen002336	Schmitterite	1	-11	-1	-15	26	32	55	-11.020833333333,26.548611111111
MD		O	1800	64	4328	Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Kambove District, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo	DR Congo	Collisional Boundary	4328	Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Kambove District, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo	AG9_713	OGR40_81	Giersdorf_00000820	Kristen002336	Schmitterite	1	-11	-2	-54	26	33	2	-11.048333333333,26.550555555556
		P	48	18	2285	Mexico	Mexico						Hg-00021	Hg-00021	Schmitterite	1	22	26	55	-102	-27	-15	22.448611111111,-102.45416666667
		P	48	18	2350	Sonora, Mexico	Mexico						Hg-00021	Hg-00021	Schmitterite	1	29	48	39	-110	-11	-23	29.810833333333,-110.18972222222
		P	48	18	16744	Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico	Mexico						Hg-00021	Hg-00021	Schmitterite	1	29	48	23	-109	-42	-34	29.806388888889,-109.70944444444
		P	48	18	2359	Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico	Mexico		2359	Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico			Hg-00021	Hg-00021	Schmitterite	1	29	48	0	-109	-39	-59	29.8,-109.66638888889
MD	R	O	48	18	2335	Candelaria Mine (Candelaria Prospect), Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico	Mexico		2359	Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico			Hg-00021	Hg-00021	Schmitterite	1	29	48	0	-109	-40	0	29.8,-109.66666666667
MD	R	O	48	18	2356	Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico	Mexico		2359	Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico			Hg-00021	Hg-00021	Schmitterite	1	29	48	0	-109	-40	0	29.8,-109.66666666667
MD	R	O	48	18	2362	San Miguel Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico	Mexico		2359	Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico			Hg-00021	Hg-00021	Schmitterite	1	29	48	0	-109	-40	0	29.8,-109.66666666667
MD	R	O	48	18	20635	San Miguel Prospect, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico	Mexico		2359	Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico			Hg-00021	Hg-00021	Schmitterite	1	29	48	0	-109	-40	0	29.8,-109.66666666667
					12362	Norway	Norway								Schmitterite	1	57	36	26	9	41	16	57.607222222222,9.6877777777778
					14329	Trøndelag, Norway	Norway								Schmitterite	1	63	42	2	11	15	45	63.700555555556,11.2625
					14328	Oppdal, Trøndelag, Norway	Norway								Schmitterite	1	62	32	11	9	30	17	62.536388888889,9.5047222222222
MD					11702	Gråurdfjellet, Oppdal, Trøndelag, Norway	Norway								Schmitterite	1	62	29	11	9	29	25	62.486388888889,9.4902777777778

This mineral directly occurs at 6 localities (7 localities according to mindat, 17 localities if parents are counted as well)
Of the 6 localities at which this mineral occurs, 5 have an age. (13 of the 17 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. (1 total)

This locality is directly dated, but is not bottom-level. (1 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. (4 total)

This locality does not have an age assigned to it. (1 bottom-level + 3 top/mid-level = 4 total)

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