Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Festenburg Mine (Festenburg Adit), Oberschulenberg, Bockswies Veins, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 219
Youngest recorded age at locality: 165

mindat Locality ID: 21394
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-21394.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Festenburg Mine (Festenburg Adit), Oberschulenberg, Bockswies Veins, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 51°49'58"N
Longitude: 10°22'45"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.832777777778,10.379166666667

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	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Malachite	None	Quartz	Rocksalt	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: C Ca Cl Cu Fe H O P Pb S Si Zn

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Malachite None Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Malachite ()*
Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	219	165	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	219	165	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	219	165	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	219	165	24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	219	165	12537
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	219	165	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	219	165	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	219	165	21482

2 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
	Co-00075	205	177	191	U-Th-Pb						Yes			Co, Ni, Hg, Cu	21652	Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany	Clausthal/Bad Grund	Bielicki and Tischendorf (1991)	10.1007/BF00321987	CMP106_440
	Co-00076	219	165	192	U-Pb						Yes			Co, Ni, Hg, Cu	21652	Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany	Clausthal/Bad Grund	Bielicki and Tischendorf (1991)	10.1007/BF00321987	CMP106_440

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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