Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Margerum Brothers Quarry, West Windsor Township, Mercer Co., New Jersey, USA

mindat Locality ID: 12728
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-12728.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Margerum Brothers Quarry, West Windsor Township, Mercer Co., New Jersey, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 40°20'0"N
Longitude: 74°39'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.333333333333,-74.65

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.

Amorphous	Analcime	Aragonite	Baryte	Brookite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite
Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Malachite	Mica	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite
Pyroxene	Quartz	Sphalerite	Titanite

Albite ()*	Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*
Brookite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinochlore ()*
Cuprite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Graphite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Malachite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Opal ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Titanite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Aragonite Baryte Brookite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite
Corundum Epidote Feldspar Malachite Mica Natrolite None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite
Pyroxene Quartz Sphalerite Titanite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	5516
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1756
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2970
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8173
Graphite ()*	None	C	2812
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	5433
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	12537
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1236
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2349
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	2273
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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