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:
Riniken, Aargau, Switzerland

Oldest recorded age at locality: 200
Youngest recorded age at locality: 150

mindat Locality ID: 288672
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-288672.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Riniken, Aargau, Switzerland": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
NAGRA Bore

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.

Arsenic	Copper	Digenite	Löllingite	Nickeline	None	Zircon

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: Ag As Bi Cu Fe H Ni O Pd S Si U

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Copper Digenite Löllingite Nickeline None Zircon

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Bismuth ()*	Bornite ()*	Coffinite ()*	Digenite ()*	Nickeline ()*
Rammelsbergite ()*	Silver ()*	Sobolevskite ()*

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
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	200	150	1	113352	1966
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	200	150	1	113352	5516
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O	200	150	1	113352	566
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	200	150	1	113352	1027
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	200	150	1	113352	633
Rammelsbergite ()*	Löllingite	NiAs₂	200	150	1	113352	233
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	200	150	1	113352	5186
Sobolevskite ()*	Nickeline	PdBi	200	150	1	113352	44

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
	DeepDive-Co-0002	200	150	200-150	sediment compaction rate	age estimated from sediment compaction rate					Yes				122683	NAGRA Bore, Kaisten, Laufenburg, Aargau, Switzerland	Kaisten	Hofmann (1990)	10.1016/0009-2541(90)90039-A	CG81_55	age estimated from sediment compaction rate

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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