Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Eclépens, Vaud, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 287572
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-287572.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Eclépens, Vaud, Switzerland": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Holcim 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.

Alunite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Fluorite	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Kieserite	Marcasite
None	Pyrite	Smectite-vermiculite	Sulphur

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 F Fe H K Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Fluorite Gypsum Kaolinite Kieserite Marcasite
None Pyrite Smectite-vermiculite Sulphur

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Szomolnokite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	115356	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	115356	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	115356	27770
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	115356	9617
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	115356	6890
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	115356	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	115356	5591
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	115356	5674
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	115356	471
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	115356	39462
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	115356	2045
Szomolnokite ()*	Kieserite	Fe(SO₄)·H₂O	1	115356	139

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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