Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Llanengan, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales, UK

mindat Locality ID: 186421
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-186421.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Llanengan, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales, UK": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Abersoch
Llanengan

Latitude: 52°48'35"N
Longitude: 4°30'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 52.809722222222,-4.5136111111111

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Atacamite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Sulphur

Anglesite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Botallackite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cotunnite ()*	Cumengeite ()*	Galena ()*
Phosgenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Sulphur ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Ba C Cl Cu Fe H O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Atacamite Baryte Chalcopyrite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Sulphur

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	123379	2734
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	123377	544
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	123378,123379,123381	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	123377	5516
Botallackite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	123377	49
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	123379	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	123377	27198
Cotunnite ()*	None	PbCl₂	1	123379	54
Cumengeite ()*	None	Pb₂₁Cu₂₀Cl₄₂(OH)₄₀·6H₂O	1	123377	43
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	123377,123378,123379,123381	24243
Phosgenite ()*	None	Pb₂(CO₃)Cl₂	1	123379	142
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	123378,123379	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	123379	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	123377,123378,123379,123381	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	123378,123379,123381	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	123379	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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