Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Rescheid, Hellenthal, Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 281641
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-281641.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Rescheid, Hellenthal, Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Wohlfahrt Mine

Latitude: 50°25'59"N
Longitude: 6°27'9"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.433055555556,6.4525

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	Bournonite	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Gypsum	Harmotome	Linarite
Malachite	Marcasite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bournonite ()*
Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*
Gypsum ()*	Harmotome ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Linarite ()*	Malachite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Wurtzite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Bournonite Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Gypsum Harmotome Linarite
Malachite Marcasite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

23 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)	1	60309	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	60309	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	60309	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	60309	11547
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1	60309	1089
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	60309	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	60309	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	60309	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	60309	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	60309	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	60309	6890
Harmotome ()*	Harmotome	Ba₂(Si₁₂Al₄)O₃₂·12H₂O	1	60309	290
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	60309	1066
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	60309	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	60309	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	60309	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	60309	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	60309	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	60309	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	60309	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	60309	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	60309	5317
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	1	60309	372

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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