Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Aschersleben, Stassfurt Potash Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 10464
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-10464.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Aschersleben, Stassfurt Potash Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Schmidtmannshall

Latitude: 51°45'27"N
Longitude: 11°28'44"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.7575,11.478888888889

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.

Boracite	None	Picromerite	Rocksalt

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: B Cl H K Mg Na O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cl H K Mg O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Boracite None Picromerite Rocksalt

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Bischofite ()*	Boracite ()*	Halite ()*	Kainite ()*	Kaliborite ()*
Picromerite ()*	Pinnoite ()*	Sylvite ()*	Szaibélyite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Bischofite ()*	None	MgCl₂·6H₂O	0		42
Boracite ()*	Boracite	Mg₃B₇O₁₃Cl	1	63463	57
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	63463	1398
Kainite ()*	None	KMg(SO₄)Cl·2.75H₂O	1	63463	50
Kaliborite ()*	None	KHMg₂B₁₂O₁₆(OH)₁₀·4H₂O	1	63463	8
Picromerite ()*	Picromerite	K₂Mg(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	0		44
Pinnoite ()*	None	MgB₂O(OH)₆	1	63463	13
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	1	63463	275
Szaibélyite ()*	None	MgBO₂(OH)	1	63463	87

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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