Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Westeregeln, Egeln, Stassfurt Potash Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 1924
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-1924.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Westeregeln, Egeln, Stassfurt Potash Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Douglashall

Latitude: 51°57'28"N
Longitude: 11°23'3"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.957777777778,11.384166666667

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.

Aphthitalite	Baryte	Blödite	Boracite	Carnallite	Kieserite	None	Not in a structural group	Rocksalt

Anhydrite ()*	Aphthitalite ()*	Blödite ()*	Boracite ()*	Carnallite ()*
Celestine ()*	Douglasite ()*	Glauberite ()*	Halite ()*	Kainite ()*
Kieserite ()*	Leonite ()*	Sulfoborite ()*	Sylvite ()*

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: B Ca Cl F Fe H K Mg Na O S Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: B Ca Cl F H K Mg O S Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aphthitalite Baryte Blödite Boracite Carnallite Kieserite None Not in a structural group Rocksalt

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	0		1588
Aphthitalite ()*	Aphthitalite	K₃Na(SO₄)₂	1	63472	77
Blödite ()*	Blödite	Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	1	63472	130
Boracite ()*	Boracite	Mg₃B₇O₁₃Cl	1	63472	57
Carnallite ()*	Carnallite	KMgCl₃·6H₂O	0		132
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	0		1252
Douglasite ()*	None	K₂Fe²⁺Cl₄·2H₂O	1	63472	3
Glauberite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(SO₄)₂	1	63472	137
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	63472	1398
Kainite ()*	None	KMg(SO₄)Cl·2.75H₂O	0		50
Kieserite ()*	Kieserite	Mg(SO₄)·H₂O	0		80
Leonite ()*	None	K₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	0		24
Sulfoborite ()*	None	Mg₃[B(OH)₄]₂(SO₄)(OH,F)₂	0		10
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	0		275

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R070317	Douglashall, Westeregeln, Egeln, Stassfurt Potash Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany	https://rruff.info/R070317

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