Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Bex, Vaud, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 134545
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-134545.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bex, Vaud, Switzerland": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Salt Mine
Sublin
Tour De Duin

Latitude: 46°15'3"N
Longitude: 7°0'46"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.250833333333,7.0127777777778

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	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Sulphur	Tamarugite

Anglesite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Calcite ()*
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 ()*	Quartz ()*	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:

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 Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Sulphur Tamarugite

44 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)			1	115350	2734
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)			2	115350,115352	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			1	115350	3250
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃			1	115350	544
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	115352	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)			2	115350,115352	1252
Chalconatronite ()*	None	Na₂Cu(CO₃)₂·3H₂O			1	115350	23
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			1	115350	27198
Devilline ()*	Devilline	CaCu₄(SO₄)₂(OH)₆·3H₂O			1	115350	366
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂			2	115350,115352	9895
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O			1	115350	484
Eugsterite ()*	None	Na₄Ca(SO₄)₃·2H₂O			1	115350	32
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	115350	24243
Gaylussite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂·5H₂O			1	115350	57
Gunningite ()*	Kieserite	Zn(SO₄)·H₂O			1	115350	48
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			2	115350,115352	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl			1	115350	1398
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O			1	115350	1689
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O			1	115350	251
Hydroglauberite ()*	None	Na₁₀Ca₃(SO₄)₈·6H₂O			1	115350	16
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O			1	115350	341
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆			1	115350	1066
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			1	115350	2228
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O			1	115350	915
Metasideronatrite ()*	None	Na₂Fe³⁺(SO₄)₂(OH)·H₂O			1	115350	28
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O			1	115350	223
Nahcolite ()*	None	NaH(CO₃)			1	115350	78
Natrojarosite ()*	Alunite	NaFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			1	115350	254
Natron ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·10H₂O			1	115350	51
Paratacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃(Cu,Zn)Cl₂(OH)₆			1	115350	158
Posnjakite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·H₂O			1	115350	309
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			1	115350	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			1	115354	61156
Salammoniac ()*	None	(NH₄)Cl			1	115350	105
Sideronatrite ()*	None	Na₂Fe³⁺(SO₄)₂(OH)·3H₂O			1	115350	73
Simonkolleite ()*	None	Zn₅(OH)₈Cl₂·H₂O	0	0	1	115350	11
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)			1	115350	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			1	115350	21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)			1	115350	589
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S			2	115350,115352	2045
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O			1	115350	87
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)			1	115350	299
Thermonatrite ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·H₂O			1	115350	64
Trona ()*	None	Na₃(HCO₃)(CO₃)·2H₂O			1	115350	129

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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