Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Llano Del Beal, Sierra Minera De Cartagena-La Unión, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

mindat Locality ID: 132553
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-132553.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Llano Del Beal, Sierra Minera De Cartagena-La Unión, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Alto Mediano
Barranco De Magreros
Barranco Los Pajaritos-Cabezo De Don Juan
Cabezo De Ponce
Collado La Mina
El Lirio Mine
El Llano
Emilia Open Pit (Emilia Quarry)
La Paz Nueva Mine
Los Blancos Quarry
Pagana Mine

Latitude: 37°37'13"N
Longitude: 0°-49'-8"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.620277777778,-0.81888888888889

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	Amorphous	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brookite	Calcite	Diaspore	Marcasite	Nickeline
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Starkeyite	Vivianite	Wurtzite

Anatase ()*	Anglesite ()*	Baryte ()*	Boyleite ()*	Brianyoungite ()*
Brookite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*
Gibbsite ()*	Goethite ()*	Greenockite ()*	Hawleyite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*
Jarosite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Ranciéite ()*	Siderite ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Starkeyite ()*	Vivianite ()*

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 As Ba C Ca Cd Cl Fe H K Mg Mn O P Pb S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brookite Calcite Diaspore Marcasite Nickeline
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Starkeyite Vivianite Wurtzite

29 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	110562	2162
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	110562	2734
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	110562	11547
Boyleite ()*	Starkeyite	Zn(SO₄)·4H₂O	1	110554	23
Brianyoungite ()*	None	Zn₃(CO₃)(OH)₄	1	110562	79
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	110562	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	110556,110562,110563	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	110562	4979
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	110562	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	110554,110562	24243
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	1	110562	504
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	110548,110554	7437
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	110562	717
Hawleyite ()*	Sphalerite	CdS	1	110562	62
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	110562	1066
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	110562	2228
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	110562	5674
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1	110562	1107
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	110560	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	110554,110562	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	2	110548,110556	3106
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	110562	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	110548,110552,110554,110556,110560,110562	61156
Ranciéite ()*	None	(Ca,Mn²⁺)_0.2(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂·0.6H₂O	1	110562	177
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	2	110560,110562	6417
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	3	110557,110560,110562	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	110550,110554,110560,110562	21482
Starkeyite ()*	Starkeyite	Mg(SO₄)·4H₂O	1	110554	79
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	110562	636

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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