Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Buus, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 288749
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-288749.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Buus, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Erzmatt

Latitude: 47°30'19"N
Longitude: 7°51'6"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.505277777778,7.8516666666667

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	Arseniosiderite	Bixbyite	Calcite	Clay	Diaspore	Mica	None	Pharmacosiderite	Pyrite
Rutile	Titanite	Zircon

Arseniosiderite ()*	Avicennite ()*	Bariopharmacosiderite ()*	Calcite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Goethite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Rutile ()*
Scorodite ()*	Titanite ()*	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: Al As Ba C Ca Fe H K Mg O S Si Ti Tl Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Arseniosiderite Bixbyite Calcite Clay Diaspore Mica None Pharmacosiderite Pyrite
Rutile Titanite Zircon

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arseniosiderite ()*	Arseniosiderite	Ca₂Fe³⁺₃O₂(AsO₄)₃·3H₂O	1	113383	194
Avicennite ()*	Bixbyite	Tl₂O₃	1	113383	7
Bariopharmacosiderite ()*	Pharmacosiderite	Ba_0.5Fe³⁺₄(AsO₄)₃(OH)₄·5H₂O	1	113383	150
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	113383	27770
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	113383	9895
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	113383	7437
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	113383	2228
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	113383	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	113383	39462
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	113383	5614
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1	113383	1153
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	113383	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	113383	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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