Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Lautenthal Veins, Lautenthal, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 255197
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-255197.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lautenthal Veins, Lautenthal, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Güte Des Herrn Mine
Lautenthals Glück Mine
Ost Shaft
Schwarze Mine
St Jakob Mine

Latitude: 51°51'57"N
Longitude: 10°17'12"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.865833333333,10.286666666667

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	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Gypsum	Linarite	Malachite	None
Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Langite ()*	Linarite ()*
Malachite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rosasite ()*	Siderite ()*
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: Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Gypsum Linarite Malachite None
Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	59873	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	59873	3250
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	59875	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	59873	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	59873	11547
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	59875	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	59873	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	59875	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	59873	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	59873	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	59873	6890
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	59875	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	2	59873,59875	1066
Langite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O	1	59875	593
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	59875	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	59873,59875	12537
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	59873	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	59873	61156
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	59875	454
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	59873	6417
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	59875	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	59873	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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