Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
St. Louis Co., Missouri, USA

mindat Locality ID: 28358
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-28358.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "St. Louis Co., Missouri, USA": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 19
Child Localities:
Antire Road - Interstate 44 Intersection
Antire Road Quarry
Big Bend Road And The Railroad Cut
Bridgeton
Castlewood Area
Concord
Des Peres Quarry
Eureka
Florissant
Highway 141 And Highway 30
I44 And Highway 141
Lindbergh And Interstate 55 Road Intersection
Mehlville
Mountain Ridge
Pacific
Rock Hill Quarry
Ruprecht Quarry
St. Louis And Spergen Limestones
Weber Quarry

Latitude: 38°33'38"N
Longitude: 90°27'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.560555555556,-90.450833333333

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	Clay	Corundum	Diaspore	Fluorite	Gypsum	Hydrotalcite	Malachite
Millerite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Serpentine	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tamarugite
Woodwardite

Anhydrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*
Honessite ()*	Linnaeite ()*	Malachite ()*	Mendozite ()*	Millerite ()*
Pecoraite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Strontianite ()*
Tamarugite ()*	Violarite ()*

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 Co Cu F Fe H Mg Na Ni O Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Corundum Diaspore Fluorite Gypsum Hydrotalcite Malachite
Millerite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Serpentine Sphalerite Spinel Tamarugite
Woodwardite

22 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	225981	1588
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	6	225967,225968,225973,225976,225980,225981	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	18	225961,225962,225964,225965,225967,225968,225970,225971,225972,225973,225974,225975,225976,225978,225979,225980,225981,225983	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	225970	1252
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	225971,225980,225981	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	5	225964,225967,225980,225981,225983	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	225961	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	225961,225973	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	225981	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	225973	14640
Honessite ()*	Woodwardite Hydrotalcite	(Ni_1-xFe³⁺_x)(SO₄)_x/2(OH)₂·nH₂O (x < 0.5, n < 3x/2)	3	225960,225961,225981	25
Linnaeite ()*	Spinel	Co²⁺Co³⁺₂S₄	1	225961	249
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	225973	12537
Mendozite ()*	None	NaAl(SO₄)₂·11H₂O	1	225969	28
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	5	225961,225972,225980,225981,225983	1066
Pecoraite ()*	Clay Serpentine	Ni₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	225961,225981	40
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	10	225961,225965,225967,225968,225971,225973,225978,225979,225980,225981	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	14	225960,225961,225965,225967,225968,225971,225972,225973,225974,225975,225976,225979,225980,225983	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	6	225967,225968,225973,225978,225980,225981	21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	225981	589
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	1	225969	87
Violarite ()*	Spinel	FeNi₂S₄	1	225961	380

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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