Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Piesport, Bernkastel-Kues, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 354
Youngest recorded age at locality: 248

mindat Locality ID: 282563
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-282563.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Piesport, Bernkastel-Kues, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Fuchsberg Quarry
Müstert Mines

Latitude: 49°52'27"N
Longitude: 6°54'29"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.874166666667,6.9080555555556

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	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore
Epidote	Feldspar	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Albite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tenorite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Todorokite ()*

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 Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Na O P Pb S Sb Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Covellite Diaspore
Epidote Feldspar Kaolinite Malachite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

25 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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	354	248	1	61205	8803
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	1	61205	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	354	248	1	61205	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	354	248	1	61205	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	1	61205	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	354	248	1	61205	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	354	248	2	61205,61206	27198
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	354	248	1	61205	1025
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	354	248	1	61205	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	354	248	1	61206	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	354	248	1	61205	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	354	248	1	61205	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	354	248	1	61205	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	354	248	2	61205,61206	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	354	248	1	61205	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	354	248	1	61205	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	354	248	1	61205	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	354	248	2	61205,61206	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	354	248	1	61205	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	354	248	2	61205,61206	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	354	248	2	61205,61206	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	354	248	2	61205,61206	21482
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	354	248	1	61206	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	354	248	1	61205	5317
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	354	248	1	61205	433

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
	Hg-00059	354	248		?-?						Yes		Cinnabar, Corderoite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Moschellandsbergite, Perroudite, Poyarkovite, Shakhovite, Tiemannite, Eglestonite	Hg	14243	Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany		Krupp (1984); Krupp et al. (1989)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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