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.

Aragonite	Calcite	Copper	Diaspore	Iron	Marcasite	None	Pyrite	Quartz

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: C Ca Cu Fe H Mg O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Copper Diaspore Iron Marcasite None Pyrite Quartz

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Copper ()*	Dolomite ()*	Goethite ()*
Iron ()*	Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Troilite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	289105	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	289098,289105,289106,289119,289134	27770
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	289072	3846
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	5	289098,289105,289106,289119,289134	9895
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	289106	7437
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	289100	1089
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	289106	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	289119	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	289072,289098,289105,289106,289117,289134	61156
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	289100	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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