Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Büsbacher Berg Mine (Brockenberg Mine), Büsbach, Stolberg, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 410
Youngest recorded age at locality: 331

mindat Locality ID: 13820
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-13820.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Büsbacher Berg Mine (Brockenberg Mine), Büsbach, Stolberg, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 50°44'53"N
Longitude: 6°13'51"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.748055555556,6.2308333333333

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.

Apatite	Calcite	Hopeite	None	Not in a structural group	Phenakite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

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: C Cl H O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Cl H O P Pb S Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Calcite Hopeite None Not in a structural group Phenakite Rocksalt Sphalerite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Galena ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hopeite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Willemite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	410	331	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	410	331	1689
Hopeite ()*	Hopeite	Zn₃(PO₄)₂·4H₂O	410	331	29
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	410	331	1066
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	410	331	1725
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	410	331	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	410	331	21482
Willemite ()*	Phenakite	Zn₂SiO₄	410	331	303

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Kristen002437	410	331	Devonian and Lower Carboniferous		epigenic lead-zinc mineralization					Yes			Zn, Pb	21263	Stolberg, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	Aachen-Stolberg	Krahn and Baumann (1996)	10.1007/BF00204029	MD31_225

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...