Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Saint-Paul Mine, Welkenraedt, Plombières-Vieille Montagne-Moresnet (Plombières-Altenberg-Moresnet) Mining District, Verviers, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Oldest recorded age at locality: 201
Youngest recorded age at locality: 145

mindat Locality ID: 192004
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-192004.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Saint-Paul Mine, Welkenraedt, Plombières-Vieille Montagne-Moresnet (Plombières-Altenberg-Moresnet) Mining District, Verviers, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 50°39'35"N
Longitude: 5°56'53"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.659722222222,5.9480555555556

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	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Corundum	Diaspore	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Pyrophyllite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Sulphur

Anglesite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Pyrophyllite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*

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 C Ca Cl Fe H O P Pb S Si Zn

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Corundum Diaspore Marcasite None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Pyrophyllite Rocksalt Sphalerite Sulphur

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	201	145	2734
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	201	145	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	201	145	4979
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	201	145	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	201	145	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	201	145	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	201	145	1689
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	201	145	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	201	145	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	201	145	1725
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	201	145	771
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	201	145	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	201	145	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	201	145	2045

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
	sedznpb-00052	201	145	Jurassic ?							Yes				301	Verviers, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium	Verviers	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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