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Locality Name:
Viper Deposit (The Viper Deposit), Sapes Mine ("Sappes Mine"), Alexandroupoli, Evros, East Macedonia And Thrace, Greece


mindat Locality ID: 232676
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-232676.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Viper Deposit (The Viper Deposit), Sapes Mine ("Sappes Mine"), Alexandroupoli, Evros, East Macedonia And Thrace, Greece": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 41°1'0"N
Longitude: 25°46'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.016666666667,25.766666666667
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Au Ba Ca Cu Fe H K O P Pb S Sb Si Sr Te Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Au Ba Ca Cu Fe H K O P Pb S Sb Si Sr Te Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AluniteBaryteChalcopyriteClayCopperDiasporeEnargiteKaoliniteMicaNone
PyritePyrophylliteQuartzRocksaltSphaleriteTetrahedriteWurtzite

20 IMA Minerals at location:
Alunite  (*)Baryte  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Diaspore  (*)Dickite  (*)
Enargite  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Goldfieldite  (*)Hinsdalite  (*)
Kaolinite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrophyllite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)Svanbergite  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)Woodhouseite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Alunite  (*)NoneKAl3(SO4)2(OH)60966
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)011547
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2027198
Diaspore  (*)DiasporeAlO(OH)0481
Dickite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)40651
Enargite  (*)Enargite WurtziteCu3AsS40910
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS024243
Gold  (*)CopperAu030554
Goldfieldite  (*)Tetrahedrite(Cu4   2)Cu6Te4S13072
Hinsdalite  (*)AlunitePbAl3(SO4)(PO4)(OH)6082
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)405591
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2017380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2039462
Pyrophyllite  (*)Clay PyrophylliteAl2Si4O10(OH)20771
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2061156
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS021482
Svanbergite  (*)AluniteSrAl3(SO4)(PO4)(OH)60105
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S1301803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1305317
Woodhouseite  (*)AluniteCaAl3(SO4)(PO4)(OH)6062


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