Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Shropshire, England, UK

Oldest recorded age at locality: 220
Youngest recorded age at locality: 220

mindat Locality ID: 14228
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14228.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Shropshire, England, UK": 83
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 54

Number of Child Localities: 23
Child Localities:
Adderley
Buxton Hill-Cefn Gwynlle District
Callow Hill-Bog District
Chirbury
Clive
Criggion
Hope-Shelve District
Llanyblodwel
Ludlow
Middletown
Much Wenlock
Myndtown
Oswestry
Pontesbury
Pultheley
Ratlinghope
Ruyton Of The Eleven Towns
Shrewsbury
Telford
Wellington
West Felton
Wotherton
Wrockwardine

Latitude: 52°39'55"N
Longitude: 2°51'48"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 52.665277777778,-2.8633333333333

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	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum
Descloizite	Devilline	Diaspore	Edingtonite	Epidote	Fluorite	Harmotome	Iron	Kaolinite	Ktenasite
Linarite	Malachite	Marcasite	Minium	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Vivianite

Anglesite ()*	Asbolane ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Barytocalcite ()*	Bornite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Daubréelite ()*	Devilline ()*
Edingtonite ()*	Epidote ()*	Erythrite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Graphite ()*	Harmotome ()*	Hematite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*
Iron ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Langite ()*	Linarite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Minium ()*
Mottramite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Schreibersite ()*	Schulenbergite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*	Witherite ()*	Wroewolfeite ()*	Wulfenite ()*
Wüstite ()*

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 Cl Co Cr Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Ni O P Pb S Si Sr V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum
Descloizite Devilline Diaspore Edingtonite Epidote Fluorite Harmotome Iron Kaolinite Ktenasite
Linarite Malachite Marcasite Minium None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Vivianite

51 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	121519	2734
Asbolane ()*	Not in a structural group	Mn⁴⁺(O,OH)₂·(Co,Ni,Mg,Ca)_x(OH)_2x·nH₂O	220	220	2	121503,121548	143
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆			2	121509,121517	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			5	121491,121492,121495,121496,121517	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	220	220	35	121480,121483,121484,121485,121486,121487,121491,121492,121493,121494,121497,121499,121500,121501,121503,121505,121508,121509,121510,121514,121515,121516,121517,121522,121523,121524,121525,121532,121536,121539,121541,121542,121544,121556,121558	11547
Barytocalcite ()*	None	BaCa(CO₃)₂			1	121501	83
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄			4	121487,121492,121516,121517	5516
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆			3	121516,121519,121524	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			27	121480,121487,121489,121492,121499,121501,121505,121507,121508,121509,121510,121513,121514,121515,121516,121517,121519,121521,121523,121524,121526,121532,121534,121536,121539,121541,121556	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)			1	121476	1252
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)			10	121499,121508,121509,121510,121516,121517,121519,121522,121524,121525	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			7	121487,121492,121494,121516,121517,121536,121543	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			15	121487,121489,121492,121499,121507,121508,121509,121516,121517,121519,121524,121526,121528,121536,121539	27198
Daubréelite ()*	Spinel	FeCr₂S₄			1	121553	157
Devilline ()*	Devilline	CaCu₄(SO₄)₂(OH)₆·3H₂O			2	121519,121524	366
Edingtonite ()*	Edingtonite	Ba(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·4H₂O			1	121513	26
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	121513	8173
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O			1	121499	814
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			1	121501	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			23	121480,121481,121485,121487,121489,121497,121499,121501,121505,121507,121508,121509,121510,121515,121516,121517,121519,121521,121522,121523,121524,121525,121526	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			2	121519,121524	7437
Graphite ()*	None	C			1	121553	2812
Harmotome ()*	Harmotome	Ba₂(Si₁₂Al₄)O₃₂·12H₂O			1	121513	290
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			4	121524,121550,121551,121558	14640
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆			5	121499,121501,121509,121510,121517	1066
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe			1	121553	1089
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			3	121497,121509,121519	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	121550	5591
Langite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O			4	121507,121516,121517,121519	593
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂			2	121516,121519	987
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	121553	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	220	220	24	121478,121479,121487,121491,121492,121494,121495,121496,121503,121507,121508,121509,121510,121516,121517,121519,121524,121528,121536,121539,121543,121546,121548,121554	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			1	121501	5674
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl			1	121524	1107
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄			1	121499	247
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)			1	121548	362
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			2	121512,121513	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			7	121480,121489,121499,121509,121516,121519,121534	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂			6	121483,121489,121492,121523,121524,121539	3106
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl			8	121497,121509,121517,121519,121522,121523,121524,121525	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			20	121480,121483,121484,121486,121487,121497,121499,121507,121508,121509,121510,121513,121514,121516,121519,121522,121524,121526,121532,121541	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)			1	121537	1711
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P			1	121553	374
Schulenbergite ()*	Ktenasite	(Cu,Zn)₇(SO₄)₂(OH)₁₀·3H₂O			1	121516	142
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			19	121480,121485,121487,121489,121499,121501,121507,121508,121509,121510,121515,121516,121517,121519,121523,121524,121526,121532,121541	21482
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)			1	121553	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS			1	121553	1044
Witherite ()*	Aragonite	Ba(CO₃)			6	121499,121501,121517,121523,121524,121532	251
Wroewolfeite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O			1	121519	95
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄			1	121520	1655
Wüstite ()*	Rocksalt	FeO			1	121553	74

2 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
	sedcu-00413	220	220	Triassic										Cu	31362	Grinshill Copper Mine, Clive, Shropshire, England, UK	Grinshill	Cox et al. (2003)		USGSOFR03_107
	sedcu-00412	220	220	Triassic										Cu	31380	Eardiston Mine, Ruyton Of The Eleven Towns, Shropshire, England, UK	Eardiston	Cox et al. (2003)		USGSOFR03_107

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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