Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Atherstone, North Warwickshire, Warwickshire, England, UK

mindat Locality ID: 225350
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-225350.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Atherstone, North Warwickshire, Warwickshire, England, UK": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Mancetter Quarry (Oldbury Hill Quarry)
Purley Chase Manganese Mine
Purley Quarry

Latitude: 52°33'29"N
Longitude: 1°32'45"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 52.558055555556,-1.5458333333333

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.

Alunite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Corundum	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite

Aragonite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Hematite ()*
Langite ()*	Malachite ()*	Manganite ()*	Natrojarosite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	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 Cu Fe H Mn Na O Pb S Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Corundum Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	121835	3250
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	121835	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	121835	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	121835	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	121835	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	121835,121836	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	121835	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	121835	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	121835	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	121835	14640
Langite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O	1	121835	593
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	121835	12537
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	1	121836	770
Natrojarosite ()*	Alunite	NaFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	121835	254
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	121835,121836,121837	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	2	121835,121836	3106
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	121835	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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