Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Salem, Washington Co., Indiana, USA

mindat Locality ID: 195287
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-195287.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Salem, Washington Co., Indiana, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Dam Spillway
Hoosier Stone And Concrete Corp. (Hanson Aggegrates) Quarry
Hoosier Stone Company Salem (Hoosier Materials; Inc.; Salem Quarry; Hoosier Quarry)
Owsley Quarry (Salem West Quarry; Edward Kraemer & Sons Quarry)
Ralph Rogers Co. Quarry
Salem East Quarry (Edward Kraemer And Sons; Inc.)
Unnamed Stream

Latitude: 38°36'5"N
Longitude: 86°8'41"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.601388888889,-86.144722222222

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Fluorite	Gypsum	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Sphalerite

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: Ba C Ca F Fe H Mg O S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Fluorite Gypsum Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Sphalerite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Anhydrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Strontianite ()*

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)	1	214614	1588
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	214613,214614	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	214614	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	2	214614,214617	1252
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	214614	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	214614	9617
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	214614,214617	6890
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	214614	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	214614,214619	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	214613,214614,214617	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	214613,214614,214615	21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	214614	589

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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