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Locality Name:
Thale, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 296
Youngest recorded age at locality: 289

mindat Locality ID: 223814
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-223814.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Thale, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany": 27
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Adit Below The Tourist Cable Lift Line To The Rosstrappe Rock
Altenbrak
Caroline Mine
Friedrichsbrunn
Grosser Rabenstein
Helene Prospection
Treseburg

Latitude: 51°42'26"N
Longitude: 11°0'16"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.707222222222,11.004444444444

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.

Allophane	Amphibole	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Axinite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Caledonite	Chalcopyrite
Clinozoisite	Copper	Covellite	Cyanotrichite	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Gypsum
Linarite	Malachite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pharmacosiderite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Titanite	Tourmaline	Vesuvianite

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Allophane ()*	Anatase ()*	Anglesite ()*
Anorthite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Brochantite ()*
Calcite ()*	Caledonite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Clinozoisite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Cyanotrichite ()*
Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gibbsite ()*	Goethite ()*
Grossular ()*	Gypsum ()*	Linarite ()*	Malachite ()*	Pharmacosiderite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rosasite ()*	Schorl ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Titanite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*

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 As B C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amphibole Aragonite Arsenopyrite Axinite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Caledonite Chalcopyrite
Clinozoisite Copper Covellite Cyanotrichite Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Gypsum
Linarite Malachite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pharmacosiderite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Titanite Tourmaline Vesuvianite

39 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	296	289	3	63346,63356,63359	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	296	289	1	63342	8803
Allophane ()*	Allophane	Al₂O₃(SiO₂)_1.3-2.0·2.5-3.0H₂O	296	289	1	63346	470
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	296	289	1	63342	2162
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	296	289	2	63343,63362	2734
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	296	289	1	63346	1036
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	296	289	1	63352	9052
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	296	289	1	63362	919
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Fe²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	296	289	2	63356,63359	260
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	296	289	2	63355,63357	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	296	289	6	63343,63346,63354,63355,63359,63362	27770
Caledonite ()*	Caledonite	Cu₂Pb₅(SO₄)₃(CO₃)(OH)₆	296	289	1	63362	359
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	296	289	2	63357,63362	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	296	289	6	63343,63346,63352,63354,63355,63362	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	296	289	1	63346	3531
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	296	289	2	63343,63346	1025
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	296	289	1	63343	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	296	289	1	63352	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	296	289	1	63346	2970
Cyanotrichite ()*	Cyanotrichite	Cu₄Al₂(SO₄)(OH)₁₂(H₂O)₂	296	289	2	63346,63357	179
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	296	289	2	63346,63353	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	296	289	4	63343,63346,63352,63355	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	296	289	3	63342,63343,63362	24243
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	296	289	1	63357	504
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	296	289	1	63357	7437
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	296	289	2	63346,63353	1544
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	296	289	2	63343,63362	6890
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	296	289	2	63343,63362	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	296	289	4	63346,63355,63357,63362	12537
Pharmacosiderite ()*	Pharmacosiderite	KFe³⁺₄(AsO₄)₃(OH)₄·6-7H₂O	296	289	1	63352	428
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	296	289	5	63343,63346,63352,63354,63362	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	296	289	2	63343,63354	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	296	289	9	63338,63343,63346,63352,63354,63355,63356,63359,63362	61156
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	296	289	1	63362	454
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	296	289	1	63338	2705
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	296	289	1	63362	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	296	289	2	63343,63362	21482
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	296	289	1	63346	4899
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	296	289	1	63346	1395

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
	Hg-00077	296	289		U-Pb, K-Ar, Rb-Sr						Yes		Cinnabar, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Tiemannite, Tischendorfite	Hg	22226	Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany		Möller et al. (1984); Baumann et al. (1991)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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