Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Oker Valley, Bad Harzburg, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 27017
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27017.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Oker Valley, Bad Harzburg, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Große Romke Slag Locality
Rabenklippe
Radau-Oker Water Tunnel
Romke Valley
Ziegenrücken

Latitude: 51°51'54"N
Longitude: 10°36'14"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.865,10.603888888889

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.

Allanite	Amphibole	Apatite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Caledonite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite
Cobaltite	Copper	Corundum	Cubanite	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	Marcasite	Mica	Molybdenite
Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Serpentine
Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetradymite	Titanite	Vesuvianite	Wurtzite	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Anatase ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*
Calcite ()*	Caledonite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Clinochlore ()*
Cobaltite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Grossular ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rucklidgeite ()*
Rutile ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Titanite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Zircon ()*
Zoisite ()*

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 As Au Bi C Ca Ce Co Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na Ni O P Pb S Si Te Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Cu H O Pb S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Amphibole Apatite Arsenopyrite Calcite Caledonite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite
Cobaltite Copper Corundum Cubanite Epidote Feldspar Garnet Marcasite Mica Molybdenite
Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Serpentine
Sphalerite Spinel Tetradymite Titanite Vesuvianite Wurtzite Zircon

36 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	59767	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	59767	8803
Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	59767	706
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2	59766,59769	2162
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	59767	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	59766,59767,59769	27770
Caledonite ()*	Caledonite	Cu₂Pb₅(SO₄)₃(CO₃)(OH)₆	0		359
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	59767,59769	27198
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	59767	951
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	59769	1756
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	1	59767	966
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	59767	802
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	59766,59767	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	59767	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	59767	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	59767	30554
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	59766	1544
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	59767	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	59767	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	59767	5674
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	59767	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	59767	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	59767	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	59766	2349
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	59767	1512
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	59767	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	59767,59769	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	59767	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	59766,59767,59769	61156
Rucklidgeite ()*	Tetradymite	PbBi₂Te₄	1	59767	64
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	59767	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	59767	21482
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	59767	4899
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1	59766	1395
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	59767	5251
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	59766	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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