Mineral Evolution Database

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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.

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	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Coronadite	Corundum	Diaspore	Fluorite
Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt
Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Wurtzite

Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Cryptomelane ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Greenockite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*
Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnesioferrite ()*	Malachite ()*
Manganite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Niter ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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 Cd Cl Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn N Na O P Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Coronadite Corundum Diaspore Fluorite
Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt
Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Wurtzite

29 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	282931	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	282917	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	20	282857,282936,282937,282938,282939,282940,282941,282942,282943,282944,282945,282946,282947,282948,282949,282950,282951,282952,282953,282954	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	8	282805,282857,282858,282917,282920,282926,282930,282936	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	282932	1252
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	282857,282947	27198
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	8	282814,282816,282821,282824,282845,282870,282877,282881	599
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	48	282803,282804,282805,282807,282837,282869,282873,282874,282875,282876,282877,282878,282879,282880,282882,282883,282884,282885,282919,282920,282921,282922,282923,282924,282925,282926,282927,282928,282929,282936,282937,282938,282939,282940,282941,282942,282943,282944,282945,282946,282947,282948,282949,282950,282951,282952,282953,282954	9895
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	282930	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	8	282857,282862,282925,282927,282936,282937,282939,282946	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	10	282796,282804,282805,282807,282841,282865,282920,282921,282924,282925	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	282804,282806	7437
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	282936	717
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	282931	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	282930	1398
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	282869,282873	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	2	282809,282919	1689
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	282855	5591
Magnesioferrite ()*	Spinel	MgFe³⁺₂O₄	1	282849	98
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	282857,282947	12537
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	4	282806,282854,282871,282919	770
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	282946	5674
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	4	282799,282852,282955,282976	181
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6	282807,282857,282922,282925,282946,282947	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	2	282870,282871	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	282798,282805,282919,282930,282933	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	282806	969
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	282919	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	15	282796,282803,282804,282807,282841,282865,282919,282920,282921,282922,282923,282925,282926,282929,282946	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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