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:
New Britain Township, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, USA

mindat Locality ID: 238402
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-238402.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "New Britain Township, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
New Galena

Latitude: 40°19'44"N
Longitude: 75°11'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.328888888889,-75.185277777778

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Covellite	Linarite	Malachite	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Bornite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Linarite ()*
Malachite ()*	Posnjakite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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: C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mg Mo O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Covellite Linarite Malachite None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite 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
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	262604	2734
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	262604	5516
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	262604	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	262604	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	262604	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	262604	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	262604	4165
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	262604	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	262604	24243
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	262604	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	262604	12537
Posnjakite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·H₂O	1	262604	309
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	262604	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	262604	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	262604	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	262604	21482
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	262604	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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