Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Kastel, Nonnweiler, Saarland, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 133577
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-133577.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kastel, Nonnweiler, Saarland, Germany": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
A1 Highway Cut
Kloppberg Quarry
Slag Occurrence

Latitude: 49°34'33"N
Longitude: 6°58'16"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.575833333333,6.9711111111111

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.

Allophane	Amorphous	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copiapite	Copper	Corundum
Diaspore	Digenite	Domeykite	Gypsum	Harmotome	Malachite	Marcasite	Melanterite	Mica	None
Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Spinel	Vivianite

Aragonite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celadonite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copiapite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*
Digenite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Domeykite ()*	Fayalite ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Harmotome ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	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 Cu Fe H K Mg O P Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amorphous Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copiapite Copper Corundum
Diaspore Digenite Domeykite Gypsum Harmotome Malachite Marcasite Melanterite Mica None
Not in a structural group Olivine Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Spinel Vivianite

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	61843	3250
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	61842	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	61842,61843	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	61842,61843	27770
Celadonite ()*	Mica Clay	KMgFe³⁺Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2	61842,61843	309
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	61843	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	61842	3531
Copiapite ()*	Copiapite	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₄(SO₄)₆(OH)₂·20H₂O	1	61843	382
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	61842	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	61842	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	61842	1027
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	61842,61843	9895
Domeykite ()*	Domeykite	Cu₃As	1	61842	73
Fayalite ()*	Olivine	Fe²⁺₂(SiO₄)	1	61844	371
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	61843	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	61843	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	61843	6890
Harmotome ()*	Harmotome	Ba₂(Si₁₂Al₄)O₃₂·12H₂O	2	61842,61843	290
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	61843	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	61843	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	61843	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	61843	5674
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	61843	915
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	61843	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	61843	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	61842,61843	61156
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	61844	636

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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