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:
Blue Ball, Earl Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA

mindat Locality ID: 277152
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-277152.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blue Ball, Earl Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Blue Ball Stone Co. Quarry (Showalter Quarry)

Latitude: 40°7'18"N
Longitude: 76°2'53"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.121666666667,-76.048055555556

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.

Analcime	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Corundum	Fluorite	Gypsum	None	Pyrite
Quartz	Rutile

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 C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg Na O S Si Sr Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Corundum Fluorite Gypsum None Pyrite
Quartz Rutile

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Strontianite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	262952	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	262952	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	262952	1252
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	262952	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	262952	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	262952	9617
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	262952	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	262952	14640
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	262952	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	262952	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	262952	5614
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	262952	589

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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