The phrase "able to locate it" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's capability to find a specific item or piece of information.
Example: "After searching for hours, I was finally able to locate it in the back of the drawer."
Alternatives: "capable of finding it" or "able to find it."
Then the Swede is able to locate it and covers up! Whaooo nelly!
The police were able to locate it quickly because it had a tracking device, officials said.
The United Nations inspectors had heard rumors of such a system, but have never been able to locate it.
We are needing a few pages from this book and I have not been able to locate it anywhere.
My excuse is that there is an intricacy of wires in the corner where it lives and only by crawling around peering under desks and behind books will I be able to locate it to switch it off.
Andrea Accomazzo, ESA's spacecraft operations manager, said: "When we put it in the Martian environment, the spacecraft didn't behave exactly as expected … It might take quite some time before we are able to locate it".
It is able to locate its prey using its keen sense of smell, which can locate a dead or dying animal from a range of up to 9.5 km.
Strange as it may seem, at that instant the bleeding stopped without my ever being able to locate its cause.
-The entire app is underwhelming due to the non-working GPS and when it is able to locate me it's slow to update.
The government, said Macmillan's response (pdf), found a "lack of direct evidence of conspiracy", and its complaint is therefore "based entirely on the little circumstantial evidence it was able to locate during its extensive investigation, on which it piles innuendo on top of innuendo, stretches facts and implies actions that did not occur and which Macmillan denies unequivocally".
In Macmillan's 26-page response, it said, "Absent any direct evidence of conspiracy, the government's complaint is necessarily based entirely on the little circumstantial evidence it was able to locate during its extensive investigation, on which it piles innuendo on top of innuendo, stretches facts and implies actions that did not occur and Macmillan denies unequivocally".
