Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Säffle, Värmland County, Sweden

mindat Locality ID: 228719
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-228719.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Säffle, Värmland County, Sweden": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Långserud
Nysäter

Latitude: 59°17'24"N
Longitude: 12°41'23"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 59.29,12.689722222222

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.

Acanthite	Argyrodite	Cobaltite	Copper	Covellite	Meneghinite	None	Pavonite	Spinel	Wurtzite

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 As Au Bi Cd Co Cu Ge Pb S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Argyrodite Cobaltite Copper Covellite Meneghinite None Pavonite Spinel Wurtzite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Aikinite ()*	Argyrodite ()*	Benjaminite ()*	Carrollite ()*
Cobaltite ()*	Covellite ()*	Gold ()*	Greenockite ()*	Matildite ()*
Silver ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	112913	2793
Aikinite ()*	Meneghinite	CuPbBiS₃	1	112913	315
Argyrodite ()*	Argyrodite	Ag₈GeS₆	1	112912	62
Benjaminite ()*	Pavonite	Ag₃Bi₇S₁₂	1	112913	45
Carrollite ()*	Spinel	CuCo₂S₄	1	112913	154
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	1	112913	966
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	112912,112913	4165
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	112912,112913	30554
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	112913	717
Matildite ()*	None	AgBiS₂	1	112913	252
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	112913	5186

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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