Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Freital, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 408
Youngest recorded age at locality: 367

mindat Locality ID: 279410
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-279410.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Freital, Dresden, Saxony, Germany": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Carola Mine (Königin Carola Mine; Paul Berndt Mine)

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Alum	Arcanite	Coquimbite	Gypsum	Halotrichite	Metavoltine	None	Not in a structural group	Pyracmonite	Sabieite
Sulphur	Tamarugite	Voltaite

Alunogen ()*	Coquimbite ()*	Godovikovite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halotrichite ()*
Hoelite ()*	Kremersite ()*	Letovicite ()*	Mascagnite ()*	Metavoltine ()*
Pyracmonite ()*	Ravatite ()*	Sabieite ()*	Salammoniac ()*	Selenium ()*
Sulphur ()*	Tamarugite ()*	Tschermigite ()*	Voltaite ()*

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 Cl Fe H K N Na O S Se

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alum Arcanite Coquimbite Gypsum Halotrichite Metavoltine None Not in a structural group Pyracmonite Sabieite
Sulphur Tamarugite Voltaite

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunogen ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂(SO₄)₃(H₂O)₁₂·5H₂O	408	367	1	62003	272
Coquimbite ()*	Coquimbite	AlFe₃(SO₄)₆(H₂O)₁₂·6H₂O	408	367	1	62003	136
Godovikovite ()*	Sabieite	(NH₄)Al(SO₄)₂	408	367	1	62003	19
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	408	367	1	62003	6890
Halotrichite ()*	Halotrichite	Fe²⁺Al₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	408	367	1	62003	409
Hoelite ()*	None	C₁₄H₈O₂	0	0	1	62003	4
Kremersite ()*	None	(NH₄)₂Fe³⁺Cl₅·H₂O	408	367	1	62003	12
Letovicite ()*	None	(NH₄)₃H(SO₄)₂	408	367	1	62003	18
Mascagnite ()*	Arcanite	(NH₄)₂(SO₄)	408	367	1	62003	61
Metavoltine ()*	Metavoltine	K₂Na₆Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₆O₂(SO₄)₁₂·18H₂O	408	367	1	62003	78
Pyracmonite ()*	Pyracmonite	(NH₄)₃Fe(SO₄)₃	408	367	1	62003	5
Ravatite ()*	None	C₁₄H₁₀	408	367	1	62003	3
Sabieite ()*	Sabieite	(NH₄)Fe³⁺(SO₄)₂	408	367	1	62003	9
Salammoniac ()*	None	(NH₄)Cl	408	367	1	62003	105
Selenium ()*	Sulphur	Se	408	367	1	62003	143
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	408	367	1	62003	2045
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	408	367	1	62003	87
Tschermigite ()*	Alum	(NH₄)Al(SO₄)₂·12H₂O	408	367	1	62003	81
Voltaite ()*	Voltaite	K₂Fe²⁺₅Fe³⁺₃Al(SO₄)₁₂·18H₂O	408	367	1	62003	111

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Cr-00046	408	367	400	U-Pb, K			zircon, biotite			Yes		Volkonskoite	Cr	23248	Dresden, Saxony, Germany	Dresden, E. Lausitz	Gastil (1960)	10.2475/ajs.258.1.1	AJS258_1

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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