Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
La Roche-Ballue, Bouguenais, Loire-Atlantique, Pays De La Loire, France

mindat Locality ID: 280811
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-280811.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "La Roche-Ballue, Bouguenais, Loire-Atlantique, Pays De La Loire, France": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
La Mothe Quarry

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.

Acanthite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Covellite	Digenite	Feldspar	Lillianite
Marcasite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cosalite ()*	Covellite ()*	Digenite ()*	Eskimoite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Gustavite ()*	Heyrovskýite ()*	Lillianite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Scorodite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Vikingite ()*

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: Ag Al As Au Bi Ca Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Baryte Chalcopyrite Copper Covellite Digenite Feldspar Lillianite
Marcasite Molybdenite Nickeline None Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

24 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	56289	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	56289	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	56289	9052
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	56289	1966
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	56289	27198
Cosalite ()*	None	Pb₂Bi₂S₅	1	56289	344
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	56289	4165
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	56289	1027
Eskimoite ()*	Lillianite	Ag₇Pb₁₀Bi₁₅S₃₆	1	56289	20
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	56289	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	56289	30554
Gustavite ()*	Lillianite	AgPbBi₃S₆	1	56289	113
Heyrovskýite ()*	Lillianite	Pb₆Bi₂S₉	1	56289	66
Lillianite ()*	Lillianite	Pb_3-2xAg_xBi_2+xS₆	1	56289	128
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	56289	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	56289	5800
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	56289	2349
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	56289	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	56289	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	56289	4894
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1	56289	1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	56289	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	56289	5317
Vikingite ()*	Lillianite	Ag₅Pb₈Bi₁₃S₃₀	1	56289	27

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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