Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Concordia Smelter Slag Locality, Eschweiler, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 17588
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-17588.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Concordia Smelter Slag Locality, Eschweiler, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 50°48'41"N
Longitude: 6°14'55"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.811388888889,6.2486111111111

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	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Connellite	Copper	Corundum	Ettringite	Gypsum
Hydrotalcite	Ktenasite	Linarite	Malachite	Melanterite	None	Not in a structural group	Spinel	Starkeyite	Sulphur
Vivianite	Wurtzite

Anglesite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Bazhenovite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Connellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Ettringite ()*	Fougèrite ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hannebachite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hydrocerussite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*
Lanarkite ()*	Langite ()*	Lead ()*	Leadhillite ()*	Linarite ()*
Litharge ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Mimetite ()*
Monohydrocalcite ()*	Rozenite ()*	Schulenbergite ()*	Sulphur ()*	Thaumasite ()*
Vivianite ()*	Zincite ()*

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: Al As C Ca Cl Cu Fe H O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As C Ca Cl Cu Fe H O P Pb S Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Connellite Copper Corundum Ettringite Gypsum
Hydrotalcite Ktenasite Linarite Malachite Melanterite None Not in a structural group Spinel Starkeyite Sulphur
Vivianite Wurtzite

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)			2734
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			3250
Bazhenovite ()*	None	Ca₈S₅(S₂O₃)(OH)₁₂·20H₂O	0	0	9
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆			1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)			4979
Connellite ()*	Connellite	Cu₃₆(SO₄)(OH)₆₂Cl₈·6H₂O			295
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O			2970
Ettringite ()*	Ettringite	Ca₆Al₂(SO₄)₃(OH)₁₂·27H₂O			93
Fougèrite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Fe²⁺₄Fe³⁺₂(OH)₁₂(CO₃)·3H₂O			20
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			6890
Hannebachite ()*	None	Ca(SO₃)·0.5H₂O			12
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			14640
Hydrocerussite ()*	None	Pb₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			201
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆			1066
Lanarkite ()*	None	Pb₂O(SO₄)			97
Langite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O			593
Lead ()*	Copper	Pb			192
Leadhillite ()*	None	Pb₄(SO₄)(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			265
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂			987
Litharge ()*	None	PbO			139
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			12537
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O			915
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl			1107
Monohydrocalcite ()*	None	Ca(CO₃)·H₂O			55
Rozenite ()*	Starkeyite	Fe²⁺(SO₄)·4H₂O			293
Schulenbergite ()*	Ktenasite	(Cu,Zn)₇(SO₄)₂(OH)₁₀·3H₂O			142
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S			2045
Thaumasite ()*	Ettringite	Ca₃Si(OH)₆(CO₃)(SO₄)·12H₂O			183
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O			636
Zincite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnO			98

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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