Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Barrow-upon-Soar, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, UK

mindat Locality ID: 234577
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-234577.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Barrow-upon-Soar, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, UK": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
British Gypsum Mine
Mountsorrel Quarry (Buddon Wood Quarry; Buddon Quarry)

Latitude: 52°44'17"N
Longitude: 1°8'38"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 52.738055555556,-1.1438888888889

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.

Aragonite	Calcite	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Gypsum	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Rutile	Spinel	Titanite	Topaz	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Calcite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Epidote ()*	Gypsum ()*
Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Rutile ()*
Strontianite ()*	Titanite ()*	Topaz ()*	Zircon ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 C Ca F Fe H Mo O S Si Sr Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Clinozoisite Epidote Gypsum Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Rutile Spinel Titanite Topaz Zircon

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	120954	2162
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	120953,120954	27770
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	120954	1025
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	120954	8173
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	120953	6890
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	120954	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	120954	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	120954	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	120954	9056
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	120954	5614
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	120953	589
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	120954	4899
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	120954	1476
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	120954	5251
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	120954	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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