Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, UK

mindat Locality ID: 302535
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-302535.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, UK": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Barrow-upon-Soar
Loughborough
Mountsorrel
Newtown Linford
Quorndon
Shepshed

Latitude: 52°43'57"N
Longitude: 1°12'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 52.7325,-1.2116666666667

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	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Descloizite	Epidote
Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mixite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Rutile	Spinel	Titanite	Topaz	Volborthite	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Copper ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*
Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Mottramite ()*	Nacrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Strontianite ()*	Titanite ()*	Topaz ()*
Vanadinite ()*	Vésigniéite ()*	Volborthite ()*	Zálesíite ()*	Zircon ()*
Zoisite ()*

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 Cl Cu F Fe H Mg Mo O Pb S Si Sr Ti V Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Descloizite Epidote
Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite Mixite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Rutile Spinel Titanite Topaz Volborthite Zircon

31 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	120954	2162
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	120962	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	120962	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	120953,120954,120961,120962	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	120962	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	120962	27198
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	120954	1025
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	120962	3846
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	120962	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	120954	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	120962	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	120953	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	120962	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	120954	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	120961,120962	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	120954	5800
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	1	120962	362
Nacrite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	120958	112
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	120954,120962	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	120954	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	120958,120962	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	120954	5614
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	120953	589
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	120954	4899
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	120954	1476
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	1	120962	605
Vésigniéite ()*	None	Cu₃Ba(VO₄)₂(OH)₂	1	120962	46
Volborthite ()*	Volborthite	Cu₃V₂O₇(OH)₂·2H₂O	1	120962	155
Zálesíite ()*	Mixite	CaCu₆(AsO₄)₂(AsO₃OH)(OH)₆·3H₂O	1	120962	84
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	120954	5251
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	120954	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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