Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Gotse Delchev Obshtina, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria

mindat Locality ID: 25066
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-25066.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gotse Delchev Obshtina, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Alluvial Placers
Pletena (Pletene)

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.

Acanthite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Spinel	Stannite

Acanthite ()*	Baryte ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Erlichmanite ()*
Galena ()*	Idaite ()*	Irarsite ()*	Laurite ()*	Nickeline ()*
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Rutheniridosmine ()*	Silver ()*
Vaesite ()*	Violarite ()*

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 As Ba Cr Cu Fe Ir Ni O Os Pb Ru S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Baryte Chalcopyrite Copper Nickeline None Pentlandite Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite
Spinel Stannite

17 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	1	28807	2793
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	28807	11547
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	28807	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	28807	3902
Erlichmanite ()*	Pyrite	OsS₂	1	28807	110
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	28807	24243
Idaite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃FeS₄	1	28807	142
Irarsite ()*	Pyrite	IrAsS	1	28807	154
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂	1	28807	226
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	1	28807	633
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	1	28807	767
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	28807	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	28807	39462
Rutheniridosmine ()*	None	(Ir,Os,Ru)	1	28807	47
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	28807	5186
Vaesite ()*	Pyrite	NiS₂	1	28807	106
Violarite ()*	Spinel	FeNi₂S₄	1	28807	380

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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