Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Rheinfelden, Aargau, Switzerland

Oldest recorded age at locality: 200
Youngest recorded age at locality: 150

mindat Locality ID: 191696
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-191696.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Rheinfelden, Aargau, Switzerland": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Kaiseraugst Power Station
Weierfeld

Latitude: 47°33'12"N
Longitude: 7°47'45"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.553333333333,7.7958333333333

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.

Auricupride	Copper	Covellite	Diaspore	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Perovskite	Rocksalt

Algodonite ()*	Auricupride ()*	Berzelianite ()*	Clausthalite ()*	Copper ()*
Crookesite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Gold ()*	Klockmannite ()*	Malachite ()*
Montroseite ()*	Naumannite ()*	Silver ()*

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 As Au C Cu Fe H O Pb Se Tl V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Auricupride Copper Covellite Diaspore Malachite None Not in a structural group Perovskite Rocksalt

13 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)	200	150	1	113350	41
Auricupride ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Cu₃Au	200	150	1	113350	24
Berzelianite ()*	None	Cu_2-xSe (x ≈ 0.12)	200	150	1	113350	66
Clausthalite ()*	Rocksalt	PbSe	200	150	1	113350	281
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	200	150	2	113349,113350	3846
Crookesite ()*	None	Cu₇TlSe₄	200	150	1	113350	14
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	200	150	1	113349	2970
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	200	150	1	113350	30554
Klockmannite ()*	Covellite	Cu_5.2Se₆	200	150	1	113350	63
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	200	150	1	113349	12537
Montroseite ()*	Diaspore	(V³⁺,Fe²⁺,V⁴⁺)O(OH)	200	150	1	113350	136
Naumannite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ag₂Se	200	150	1	113350	192
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	200	150	1	113350	5186

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
	DeepDive-Co-0002	200	150	200-150	sediment compaction rate	age estimated from sediment compaction rate					Yes				122683	NAGRA Bore, Kaisten, Laufenburg, Aargau, Switzerland	Kaisten	Hofmann (1990)	10.1016/0009-2541(90)90039-A	CG81_55	age estimated from sediment compaction rate

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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