Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Turquoise Ditch (Weinberg Forest), Amstall, Mühldorf, Waldviertel, Lower Austria, Austria

mindat Locality ID: 265513
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-265513.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Turquoise Ditch (Weinberg Forest), Amstall, Mühldorf, Waldviertel, Lower Austria, Austria": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 48°22'18"N
Longitude: 15°18'41"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.371666666667,15.311388888889

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.

Alunite	Amphibole	Aragonite	Calcite	Clay	Diaspore	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group
Prehnite	Pyrite	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Turquoise

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Ephesite ()*	Fibroferrite ()*	Gibbsite ()*
Goethite ()*	Graphite ()*	Halloysite-7Å ()*	Huntite ()*	Halloysite-10Å ()*
Jarosite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Nordstrandite ()*	Paragonite ()*
Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Rutile ()*	Todorokite ()*	Tremolite ()*
Turquoise ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Li Mg Mn Na O P S Si Sr Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Li Mg Mn Na O P S Si Sr Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amphibole Aragonite Calcite Clay Diaspore Kaolinite Mica None Not in a structural group
Prehnite Pyrite Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Turquoise

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Ephesite ()*	Mica	NaLiAl₂(Si₂Al₂)O₁₀(OH)₂	21
Fibroferrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Fe³⁺(SO₄)(OH)·5H₂O	107
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	504
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	7437
Graphite ()*	None	C	2812
Halloysite-7Å ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	52
Huntite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaMg₃(CO₃)₄	69
Halloysite-10Å ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄·2H₂O	62
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	2228
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	1487
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	471
Nordstrandite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	64
Paragonite ()*	Mica Clay	NaAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	247
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	5614
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	433
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2562
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	484

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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