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:
Plovdiv, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria

mindat Locality ID: 246761
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-246761.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Plovdiv, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
KCM Smelter Slag Locality

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Chalcanthite	Copiapite	Gypsum	Halotrichite	Melanterite	None	Not in a structural group	Starkeyite	Sulphur	Zinkosite

Aluminocopiapite ()*	Antlerite ()*	Apjohnite ()*	Bonattite ()*	Chalcanthite ()*
Chalcocyanite ()*	Copiapite ()*	Dietrichite ()*	Ferricopiapite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Halotrichite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Poitevinite ()*	Rozenite ()*	Siderotil ()*
Sulphur ()*

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 Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mn O S Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcanthite Copiapite Gypsum Halotrichite Melanterite None Not in a structural group Starkeyite Sulphur Zinkosite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aluminocopiapite ()*	Copiapite	(Al,Mg)Fe³⁺₄(SO₄)₆(OH,O)₂·20H₂O	1	28998	50
Antlerite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu²⁺₃(SO₄)(OH)₄	1	28998	246
Apjohnite ()*	Halotrichite	Mn²⁺Al₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	1	28998	28
Bonattite ()*	None	Cu(SO₄)·3H₂O	1	28998	21
Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcanthite	Cu(SO₄)·5H₂O	1	28998	925
Chalcocyanite ()*	Zinkosite	Cu(SO₄)	1	28998	15
Copiapite ()*	Copiapite	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₄(SO₄)₆(OH)₂·20H₂O	1	28998	382
Dietrichite ()*	Halotrichite	ZnAl₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	1	28998	15
Ferricopiapite ()*	Copiapite	Fe³⁺_0.67Fe³⁺₄(SO₄)₆(OH)₂·20H₂O	1	28998	41
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	28998	6890
Halotrichite ()*	Halotrichite	Fe²⁺Al₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	1	28998	409
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	28998	915
Poitevinite ()*	None	Cu(SO₄)·H₂O	1	28998	13
Rozenite ()*	Starkeyite	Fe²⁺(SO₄)·4H₂O	1	28998	293
Siderotil ()*	Chalcanthite	Fe(SO₄)·5H₂O	1	28998	84
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	28998	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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