Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz, Thuringia, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 282303
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-282303.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz, Thuringia, Germany": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Kohnstein Quarry

Latitude: 51°32'29"N
Longitude: 10°45'25"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.541388888889,10.756944444444

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Epsomite	Gypsum	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Sulphur	Wurtzite

Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Epsomite ()*
Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Heidornite ()*	Howlite ()*
Hydroboracite ()*	Jarandolite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Polyhalite ()*	Priceite ()*
Probertite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Strontioginorite ()*	Sulphur ()*
Tuzlaite ()*	Ulexite ()*	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: B C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Epsomite Gypsum Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Rocksalt
Sphalerite Sulphur 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
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	63654	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	63654	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	63654	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	63654	1252
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	63654	484
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	63654	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	63654	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	63654	1398
Heidornite ()*	None	Na₂Ca₃B₅O₈(SO₄)₂(OH)₂Cl	1	63654	2
Howlite ()*	None	Ca₂SiB₅O₉(OH)₅	1	63654	36
Hydroboracite ()*	None	CaMg[B₃O₄(OH)₃]₂·3H₂O	1	63654	42
Jarandolite ()*	None	CaB₃O₄(OH)₃	1	63654	2
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	63654	5674
Polyhalite ()*	None	K₂Ca₂Mg(SO₄)₄·2H₂O	1	63654	102
Priceite ()*	None	Ca₂B₅O₇(OH)₅·H₂O	1	63654	33
Probertite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₇(OH)₄·3H₂O	1	63654	29
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	63654	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	63654	21482
Strontioginorite ()*	None	CaSrB₁₄O₂₀(OH)₆·5H₂O	1	63654	5
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	63654	2045
Tuzlaite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₈(OH)₂·3H₂O	1	63654	2
Ulexite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₆(OH)₆·5H₂O	1	63654	160
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	1	63654	372

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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