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Locality Name:
Baumholder, Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 354
Youngest recorded age at locality: 248

mindat Locality ID: 17400
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-17400.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Baumholder, Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Army Quarry
Backesberg Quarry
Eckersweiler
Frauenberg
Heimbach
Reichenbach
Ruschberg
Schahn Quarry (Schaan Quarry; Hubertusruhe Quarry; Jean Quarry)

Latitude: 49°36'52"N
Longitude: 7°18'45"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.614444444444,7.3125

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	Analcime	Baryte	Calcite	Chabazite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore
Harmotome	Heulandite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pumpellyite	Quartz
Rutile	Tetrahedrite	Volborthite

Algodonite ()*	Analcime ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Eugenite ()*	Goethite ()*
Harmotome ()*	Hematite ()*	Heulandite-Ca ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Laumontite ()*
Malachite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Poppiite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Quartz ()*	Romanèchite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Vésigniéite ()*	Volborthite ()*

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: Ag Al As Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K Mg Mn Na O S Si V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al H Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Analcime Baryte Calcite Chabazite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Diaspore
Harmotome Heulandite Kaolinite Malachite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pumpellyite Quartz
Rutile Tetrahedrite Volborthite

30 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
Algodonite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu_1-xAs_x (x ≈ 0.15)	354	248	2	61246,61248	41
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	354	248	1	61250	1627
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	354	248	3	61248,61250,61252	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	354	248	2	61252,61253	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	2	61243,61253	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	354	248	1	61253	310
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	354	248	1	61253	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	354	248	1	61252	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	354	248	3	61248,61250,61253	3531
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	354	248	1	61252	2600
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	354	248	2	61248,61250	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	354	248	4	61246,61248,61250,61252	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	354	248	1	61246	9895
Eugenite ()*	None	Ag₁₁Hg₂	354	248	1	61253	17
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	354	248	1	61245	7437
Harmotome ()*	Harmotome	Ba₂(Si₁₂Al₄)O₃₂·12H₂O	354	248	1	61253	290
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	354	248	1	61252	14640
Heulandite-Ca ()*	Heulandite	(Ca,Na,K)₅(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·26H₂O	354	248	1	61253	246
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	354	248	1	61252	5591
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	354	248	3	61248,61250,61253	1271
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	354	248	3	61246,61250,61252	12537
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	354	248	0		1236
Poppiite ()*	Pumpellyite	Ca₂V³⁺V³⁺₂(Si₂O₇)(SiO₄)(OH,O)₂·H₂O	354	248	1	61253	4
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	354	248	2	61248,61250	1898
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	354	248	1	61252	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	354	248	7	61243,61244,61245,61246,61247,61252,61253	61156
Romanèchite ()*	None	(Ba,H₂O)₂(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)₅O₁₀	354	248	1	61252	312
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	354	248	1	61252	1803
Vésigniéite ()*	None	Cu₃Ba(VO₄)₂(OH)₂	354	248	1	61253	46
Volborthite ()*	Volborthite	Cu₃V₂O₇(OH)₂·2H₂O	354	248	2	61248,61250	155

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
	Hg-00059	354	248		?-?						Yes		Cinnabar, Corderoite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Moschellandsbergite, Perroudite, Poyarkovite, Shakhovite, Tiemannite, Eglestonite	Hg	14243	Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany		Krupp (1984); Krupp et al. (1989)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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