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Nandan meteorite (Nantan meteorite), Lihu - Yaochai area, Nandan County, Hechi, Guangxi, Chinai
Regional Level Types
Nandan meteorite (Nantan meteorite)- not defined -
Lihu - Yaochai areaArea
Nandan CountyCounty
HechiPrefecture
GuangxiAutonomous Region
ChinaCountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
25° 6' North , 107° 42' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Maolan848 (2001)49.6km
Yaolu923 (2001)53.0km
Mindat Locality ID:
11478
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:11478:6
GUID (UUID V4):
7aabdca3-4bd1-403c-9a34-1528605f6782


A Nickel-Iron Octahedrite was observed to fall in May of 1516 (“During summertime in May of Jiajing 11th year, stars fell from the northwest direction, five to six fold long, waving like snakes and dragons. They were as bright as lightning and disappeared in seconds".) The fall was estimated at 9000 kg. It lay untouched until "the great leap forward" in 1958, when peasants were to boost steel production with neighbourhood blast furnaces. There was a shortage of iron and so the meteorites were dug up. Fortunately their melting point was too high and the meteorites were spared. When cleaned from their heavy oxide coating they show three dimensional Widmanstaetten lines, i.e. octahedral crystals of kamacite to over an inch.

The fall was in an 8 km wide path, trending northwesterly over a length of 27 to 28 km between the towns of Lihu and Yaochai, located NE and ESE of Nandan, respectively. The grid reference is arbitrarily centered on this area.

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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical Elements

Mineral List


9 valid minerals.

Detailed Mineral List:

Akaganeite
Formula: (Fe3+,Ni2+)8(OH,O)16Cl1.25 · nH2O
Colour: Yellow to brownish
Description: Yellow to brownish masses of various amounts of akaganeite, goethite and a spinel group mineral on Nantan meteorite. All the minerals are confirmed by PXRD.
'Apatite'
Formula: Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Cohenite
Formula: Fe3C
Graphite
Formula: C
Graphite var. Cliftonite
Formula: C
Iron
Formula: Fe
Iron var. Kamacite
Formula: (Fe,Ni)
Lawrencite
Formula: (Fe2+,Ni)Cl2
'Limonite'
Magnetite
Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4
'Plessite'
Schreibersite
Formula: (Fe,Ni)3P
Taenite
Formula: (Fe,Ni)
Troilite
Formula: FeS

Gallery:

(Fe3+,Ni2+)8(OH,O)16Cl1.25 · nH2O Akaganeite
(Fe2+,Ni)Cl2 Lawrencite
(Fe,Ni) Taenite

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 1 - Elements
Iron1.AE.05Fe
var. Kamacite1.AE.05(Fe,Ni)
Taenite1.AE.10(Fe,Ni)
Cohenite1.BA.05Fe3C
Schreibersite1.BD.05(Fe,Ni)3P
Graphite1.CB.05aC
var. Cliftonite1.CB.05aC
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
Troilite2.CC.10FeS
Group 3 - Halides
Lawrencite3.AB.20(Fe2+,Ni)Cl2
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
Magnetite4.BB.05Fe2+Fe3+2O4
Akaganeite4.DK.05(Fe3+,Ni2+)8(OH,O)16Cl1.25 · nH2O
Unclassified
'Limonite'-
'Plessite'-
'Apatite'-Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
H Akaganeite(Fe3+,Ni2+)8(OH,O)16Cl1.25 · nH2O
H ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
CCarbon
C CoheniteFe3C
C GraphiteC
C Graphite var. CliftoniteC
OOxygen
O Akaganeite(Fe3+,Ni2+)8(OH,O)16Cl1.25 · nH2O
O MagnetiteFe2+Fe23+O4
O ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
FFluorine
F ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
PPhosphorus
P Schreibersite(Fe,Ni)3P
P ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
SSulfur
S TroiliteFeS
ClChlorine
Cl Akaganeite(Fe3+,Ni2+)8(OH,O)16Cl1.25 · nH2O
Cl Lawrencite(Fe2+,Ni)Cl2
Cl ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
CaCalcium
Ca ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
FeIron
Fe Akaganeite(Fe3+,Ni2+)8(OH,O)16Cl1.25 · nH2O
Fe CoheniteFe3C
Fe IronFe
Fe Iron var. Kamacite(Fe,Ni)
Fe Lawrencite(Fe2+,Ni)Cl2
Fe MagnetiteFe2+Fe23+O4
Fe Schreibersite(Fe,Ni)3P
Fe Taenite(Fe,Ni)
Fe TroiliteFeS
NiNickel
Ni Akaganeite(Fe3+,Ni2+)8(OH,O)16Cl1.25 · nH2O
Ni Iron var. Kamacite(Fe,Ni)
Ni Lawrencite(Fe2+,Ni)Cl2
Ni Schreibersite(Fe,Ni)3P
Ni Taenite(Fe,Ni)

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