Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Bad Laasphe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 24547
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24547.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bad Laasphe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Fischelbach
Hesselbach

Latitude: 50°52'35"N
Longitude: 8°19'18"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.876388888889,8.3216666666667

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.

Acanthite	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group
Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Sulphur	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*
Malachite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	Sulphur ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Malachite None Not in a structural group
Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Sulphur Tetrahedrite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	5	60154,60155,60156,60157,60158	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	60160	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	60156	3092
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	60156	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	60156	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	60156	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	60160	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	5	60154,60155,60156,60157,60158	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	60156	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	6	60154,60155,60156,60157,60158,60160	24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	60156	12537
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	1	60156	716
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	5	60154,60155,60156,60157,60158	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	60156	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	60160	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	60156	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	5	60154,60155,60156,60157,60158	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	60156	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	1	60156	586
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	60156	2045
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	5	60154,60155,60156,60157,60158	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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