Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Wool Law, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

mindat Locality ID: 277846
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-277846.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wool Law, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Gripps Level Mine
Wool Gill Mine (Wool Gill Vein)

Latitude: 55°25'47"N
Longitude: 3°45'37"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 55.429722222222,-3.7602777777778

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	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Linarite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Lanarkite ()*
Leadhillite ()*	Linarite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*
Scotlandite ()*	Siderite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Susannite ()*

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: C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mg O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

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

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2	122947,122948	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	122947	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	122947	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	122947,122948	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	122948	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	122947	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	122947	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	122947,122948	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	2	122947,122948	1689
Lanarkite ()*	None	Pb₂O(SO₄)	1	122948	97
Leadhillite ()*	None	Pb₄(SO₄)(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	122948	265
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	122947	987
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	122947	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	2	122947,122948	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	122947	61156
Scotlandite ()*	None	Pb(S⁴⁺O₃)	1	122948	25
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	122947	6417
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	122947	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	122947,122948	21482
Susannite ()*	None	Pb₄(SO₄)(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	122948	99

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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