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Locality Name:
Herscheid, Lüdenscheid, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany


mindat Locality ID: 132237
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-132237.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Herscheid, Lüdenscheid, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Olga Mine
Silberg Mines

Latitude: 51°11'24"N
Longitude: 7°42'40"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.19,7.7111111111111

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Cl Cu Fe H O P Pb S Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ApatiteAragoniteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteDiasporeLinariteMalachiteNoneNot in a structural group
RocksaltSphalerite

11 IMA Minerals at location:
Azurite  (*)Baryte  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)
Goethite  (*)Linarite  (*)Malachite  (*)Pyromorphite  (*)Siderite  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)21605955509
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)16059611547
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)260595,605964979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2260595,6059627198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS260595,6059624243
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)1605957437
Linarite  (*)LinariteCuPb(SO4)(OH)2160595987
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2260595,6059612537
Pyromorphite  (*)ApatitePb5(PO4)3Cl1605951725
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)1605956417
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS16059621482



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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