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Locality Name:
Copper-Silver Smelter (Gottesbelohnung Smelter) Slag Locality, Hettstedt, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany


mindat Locality ID: 192645
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-192645.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Copper-Silver Smelter (Gottesbelohnung Smelter) Slag Locality, Hettstedt, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Lichtloch 25
Lichtloch 26

Latitude: 51°37'26"N
Longitude: 11°30'24"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.623888888889,11.506666666667
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg O Pb S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C H Mg O Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteBaryteConnelliteCopperDevillineKtenasiteLinariteMalachiteMeliliteNolanite
NoneNot in a structural groupSphaleriteWollastoniteWurtzite

24 IMA Minerals at location:
Anglesite  (*)Azurite  (*)Boleite  (*)Callaghanite  (*)Cerussite  (*)
Connellite  (*)Copper  (*)Cuprite  (*)Dypingite  (*)Elyite  (*)
Ferrihydrite  (*)Ferrobustamite  (*)Hardystonite  (*)Lanarkite  (*)Langite  (*)
Linarite  (*)Litharge  (*)Malachite  (*)Monohydrocalcite  (*)Namuwite  (*)
Nantokite  (*)Serpierite  (*)Silver  (*)Zincite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite  (*)BarytePb(SO4)263429,634302734
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)2263429,634305509
Boleite  (*)NoneKAg9Pb26Cu24Cl62(OH)4816343065
Callaghanite  (*)NoneCu2Mg2(CO3)(OH)6·2H2O1634309
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)1634294979
Connellite  (*)ConnelliteCu36(SO4)(OH)62Cl8·6H2O263429,63430295
Copper  (*)CopperCu263429,634303846
Cuprite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu2O263429,634302970
Dypingite  (*)NoneMg5(CO3)4(OH)2·5H2O050
Elyite  (*)NoneCuPb4(SO4)O2(OH)4·H2O16342985
Ferrihydrite  (*)NolaniteFe3+10O14(OH)216343086
Ferrobustamite  (*)WollastoniteCaFe2+Si2O6263429,6343022
Hardystonite  (*)MeliliteCa2ZnSi2O7263429,6343014
Lanarkite  (*)NonePb2O(SO4)263429,6343097
Langite  (*)NoneCu4(SO4)(OH)6·2H2O163430593
Linarite  (*)LinariteCuPb(SO4)(OH)2263429,63430987
Litharge  (*)NonePbO263429,63430139
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)216342912537
Monohydrocalcite  (*)NoneCa(CO3)·H2O16342955
Namuwite  (*)KtenasiteZn4(SO4)(OH)6·4H2O16342958
Nantokite  (*)SphaleriteCuCl16342935
Serpierite  (*)DevillineCa(Cu,Zn)4(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O263429,63430292
Silver  (*)CopperAg263429,634305186
Zincite  (*)WurtziteZnO098


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