Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

mindat Locality ID: 158186
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-158186.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Rybnik Coal Area

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Blödite	Gypsum	Halotrichite	Hexahydrite	Metavoltine	None	Not in a structural group	Picromerite	Tamarugite

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 Ca Fe H K Mg Na O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Fe H K Mg Na O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Blödite Gypsum Halotrichite Hexahydrite Metavoltine None Not in a structural group Picromerite Tamarugite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Alunogen ()*	Blödite ()*	Butlerite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hexahydrite ()*
Konyaite ()*	Metavoltine ()*	Pickeringite ()*	Tamarugite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Alunogen ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂(SO₄)₃(H₂O)₁₂·5H₂O	272
Blödite ()*	Blödite	Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	130
Butlerite ()*	Not in a structural group	Fe³⁺(SO₄)(OH)·2H₂O	26
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	251
Konyaite ()*	Picromerite	Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·5H₂O	20
Metavoltine ()*	Metavoltine	K₂Na₆Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₆O₂(SO₄)₁₂·18H₂O	78
Pickeringite ()*	Halotrichite	MgAl₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	265
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	87

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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