Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Warstein, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 23300
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-23300.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Warstein, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Hillenberg
Hirschberg
Hohe Liet
Suttrop

Latitude: 51°26'21"N
Longitude: 8°21'38"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.439166666667,8.3605555555556

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	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore	Dufrénite
Lepidocrocite	Malachite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rockbridgeite	Rocksalt	Rutile
Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Vivianite	Wavellite

Anglesite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Cacoxenite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*
Covellite ()*	Crandallite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Dufrénite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*	Kidwellite ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Matulaite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rockbridgeite ()*	Siderite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Strengite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Variscite ()*	Vivianite ()*	Wavellite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mn Na O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore Dufrénite
Lepidocrocite Malachite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rockbridgeite Rocksalt Rutile
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Vivianite Wavellite

35 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	60674	2734
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	60675	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	60671	3250
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	3	60669,60671,60674	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	5	60668,60669,60671,60674,60676	11547
Cacoxenite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂₄AlO₆(PO₄)₁₇(OH)₁₂·75H₂O	1	60671	280
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	7	60668,60669,60671,60673,60674,60676,60677	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	60674	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	7	60668,60669,60671,60673,60674,60676,60677	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	60671	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	60674	4165
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	1	60671	310
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	60671	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	60674,60676	9895
Dufrénite ()*	Dufrénite	Ca_0.5Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₅(PO₄)₄(OH)₆·2H₂O	1	60671	139
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5	60669,60671,60674,60676,60677	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	60671	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	4	60671,60673,60674,60676	14640
Kidwellite ()*	None	NaFe³⁺_9+x(PO₄)₆(OH)₁₁·3H₂O (x ≈ 0.33)	1	60671	53
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	60671	581
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	6	60668,60669,60671,60674,60675,60676	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	3	60669,60671,60674	5674
Matulaite ()*	None	Fe³⁺Al₇(PO₄)₄(PO₃OH)₂(OH)₈(H₂O)₈·8H₂O	1	60671	10
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	60669,60671,60674,60677	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	60671	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	60668,60669,60671,60673,60674,60675,60676	61156
Rockbridgeite ()*	Rockbridgeite	(Fe²⁺_0.5Fe³⁺_0.5)₂Fe³⁺₃(PO₄)₃(OH)₅	1	60671	206
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	60671	6417
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	60674	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	60669,60671,60674	21482
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	60671	263
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	60671	5317
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	60671	301
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	60671	636
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	1	60671	374

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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