Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Lauch Valley, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France

mindat Locality ID: 122608
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-122608.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lauch Valley, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Buhl
Lautenbach
Markstein
Murbach Valley
Rimbach-près-Guebwiller
Soultz-Haut-Rhin

Latitude: 47°54'51"N
Longitude: 7°8'36"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.914166666667,7.1433333333333

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	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Fluorite
None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Ankerite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bournonite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Clausthalite ()*	Copper ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Uraninite ()*

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 Cl Cu Fe H O P Pb S Sb Se Si U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Diaspore Fluorite
None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	53962	3092
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	8	53950,53952,53953,53956,53959,53961,53965,53967	11547
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1	53962	1089
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	53959	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	53962	27198
Clausthalite ()*	Rocksalt	PbSe	1	53964	281
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	53961	3846
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	53949,53955,53956,53962	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	7	53950,53953,53955,53957,53959,53961,53962	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	5	53953,53956,53961,53962,53965	14640
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	53949	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	53959	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	53952,53953,53954,53955,53956,53961,53967	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	53962	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	53949,53955	21482
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	53964	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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