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.

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.

Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Diaspore	Fluorite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Greenockite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Niter ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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 Ca Cd Cu F Fe H K Mg N O Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Cu F Fe H O S Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Diaspore Fluorite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Wurtzite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	266464,266465,266466	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	266465,266466,266467,266480	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	0		1252
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	266480	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	266466	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	0		7437
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	266466	717
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	3	266464,266465,266466	1689
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	3	266462,266468,266478	181
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	266464,266465,266466	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	266480,266481	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	266464,266465,266466,266467	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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