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Locality Name:
Goppenstein, Lötschen Valley, Valais, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 108297
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-108297.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Goppenstein, Lötschen Valley, Valais, Switzerland": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Faldum Alp
Im Jeizel
Lead Mine
Meiggbach
Rothenberg (Rote Bärg)
Roti Loiwina (Roti Lowina)
Ruossilauinen (Rüezilöwinu)

Latitude: 46°22'1"N
Longitude: 7°45'31"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.366944444444,7.7586111111111

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.

Acanthite	Amphibole	Axinite	Baryte	Calcite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Cubanite	Epidote
Feldspar	Fluorite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile
Sphalerite	Sulphur

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Argentopyrite ()*
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cannizzarite ()*	Epidote ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Scolecite ()*	Silver ()*
Smythite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	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: Ag Al B Ba Bi C Ca F Fe H Mg Na Ni O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Bi Ca Fe H O Pb S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amphibole Axinite Baryte Calcite Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Cubanite Epidote
Feldspar Fluorite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile
Sphalerite Sulphur

24 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	115161	2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	115164	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	115161,115164	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2	115162,115164	2162
Argentopyrite ()*	Cubanite	AgFe₂S₃	1	115161	53
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Fe²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	1	115165	260
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	115161	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	115160,115162,115164	27770
Cannizzarite ()*	None	Pb₈Bi₁₀S₂₃	0		41
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	115161	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	115161	24243
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	115164	5433
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	115164	1898
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	115161	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	115164	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	115159,115162,115163,115164	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	115164	5614
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	1	115162	390
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	115161	5186
Smythite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_3+xS₄ (x ≈ 0-0.3)	1	115161	77
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	115161	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	1	115161	586
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	115161	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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