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Locality Name:
Salt Mine, Bex, Vaud, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 122628
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-122628.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Salt Mine, Bex, Vaud, Switzerland": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Alunite	Aragonite	Atacamite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Devilline	Epsomite	Gypsum	Hexahydrite
Kieserite	Melanterite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Sulphur	Tamarugite

Anglesite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Celestine ()*
Chalconatronite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Devilline ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epsomite ()*
Eugsterite ()*	Galena ()*	Gaylussite ()*	Gunningite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Halite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hexahydrite ()*	Hydroglauberite ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*
Hydrozincite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Metasideronatrite ()*	Mirabilite ()*
Nahcolite ()*	Natrojarosite ()*	Natron ()*	Paratacamite ()*	Posnjakite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Salammoniac ()*	Sideronatrite ()*	Simonkolleite ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Strontianite ()*	Sulphur ()*	Tamarugite ()*	Thénardite ()*
Thermonatrite ()*	Trona ()*

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 C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg N Na O Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg N Na O Pb S Si Sr Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Atacamite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Devilline Epsomite Gypsum Hexahydrite
Kieserite Melanterite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite Sulphur Tamarugite

42 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
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)			1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			3250
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃			544
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)			1252
Chalconatronite ()*	None	Na₂Cu(CO₃)₂·3H₂O			23
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			27198
Devilline ()*	Devilline	CaCu₄(SO₄)₂(OH)₆·3H₂O			366
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂			9895
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O			484
Eugsterite ()*	None	Na₄Ca(SO₄)₃·2H₂O			32
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			24243
Gaylussite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂·5H₂O			57
Gunningite ()*	Kieserite	Zn(SO₄)·H₂O			48
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl			1398
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O			1689
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O			251
Hydroglauberite ()*	None	Na₁₀Ca₃(SO₄)₈·6H₂O			16
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O			341
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆			1066
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			2228
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O			915
Metasideronatrite ()*	None	Na₂Fe³⁺(SO₄)₂(OH)·H₂O			28
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O			223
Nahcolite ()*	None	NaH(CO₃)			78
Natrojarosite ()*	Alunite	NaFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			254
Natron ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·10H₂O			51
Paratacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃(Cu,Zn)Cl₂(OH)₆			158
Posnjakite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·H₂O			309
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			39462
Salammoniac ()*	None	(NH₄)Cl			105
Sideronatrite ()*	None	Na₂Fe³⁺(SO₄)₂(OH)·3H₂O			73
Simonkolleite ()*	None	Zn₅(OH)₈Cl₂·H₂O	0	0	11
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)			2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)			589
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S			2045
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O			87
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)			299
Thermonatrite ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·H₂O			64
Trona ()*	None	Na₃(HCO₃)(CO₃)·2H₂O			129

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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