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Locality Name:
Sillerud, Årjäng, Värmland County, Sweden


mindat Locality ID: 244068
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-244068.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sillerud, Årjäng, Värmland County, Sweden": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Harnäs Mine
Intakan Mine

Latitude: 59°16'39"N
Longitude: 12°15'56"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 59.2775,12.265555555556

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: Ag Au Bi Cd Cu Fe Ni O Pb S Si Te 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ChalcopyriteCopperMeloniteMeneghiniteNoneQuartzRocksaltTetradymiteWurtzite

14 IMA Minerals at location:
Aikinite  (*)Altaite  (*)Bornite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Cosalite  (*)
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Greenockite  (*)Hessite  (*)Melonite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Sylvanite  (*)Tellurobismuthite  (*)Volynskite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Aikinite  (*)MeneghiniteCuPbBiS31112746315
Altaite  (*)RocksaltPbTe1112747489
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS411127475516
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2111274727198
Cosalite  (*)NonePb2Bi2S51112746344
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS111274624243
Gold  (*)CopperAu111274630554
Greenockite  (*)WurtziteCdS1112747717
Hessite  (*)NoneAg2Te1112747804
Melonite  (*)MeloniteNiTe21112747207
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22112746,11274761156
Sylvanite  (*)MeloniteAgAuTe41112747337
Tellurobismuthite  (*)TetradymiteBi2Te31112747276
Volynskite  (*)NoneAgBiTe2111274664



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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