Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Strontian, Highland, Scotland, UK

mindat Locality ID: 3036
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3036.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Strontian, Highland, Scotland, UK": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Beinn Resipol
Bellsgrove Mine (Bellsgrove Opencut)
Bellsgrove Quarry (Strontian Barytes Mine; Middleshop Mine)
Clashgorm Mine
Corrantee Mine
Fee Donald Mine
Whitesmith Mine

Latitude: 56°44'3"N
Longitude: 5°32'10"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 56.734166666667,-5.5361111111111

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.

Acanthite	Ancylite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brewsterite	Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Fluorite	Harmotome
Heulandite	Marcasite	Millerite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Titanite
Vivianite	Wurtzite	Zircon

Acanthite ()*	Ancylite-(Ce) ()*	Baryte ()*	Brewsterite-Ba ()*	Brewsterite-Sr ()*
Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Chamosite ()*	Erythrite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Greenockite ()*	Harmotome ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Heulandite-Ba ()*
Heulandite-Sr ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Kainosite-(Y) ()*	Marcasite ()*	Millerite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Strontianite ()*	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: Ag Al As Ba C Ca Cd Ce Co F Fe H K Mg Na Ni O Pb S Si Sr Ti Y Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba Ca F Fe H O S Si Sr Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Ancylite Aragonite Baryte Brewsterite Calcite Chlorite Clay Fluorite Harmotome
Heulandite Marcasite Millerite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Titanite
Vivianite Wurtzite Zircon

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	122662	2793
Ancylite-(Ce) ()*	Ancylite	CeSr(CO₃)₂(OH)·H₂O	2	122662,122666	92
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	5	122661,122662,122663,122664,122666	11547
Brewsterite-Ba ()*	Brewsterite	Ba(Al₂Si₆)O₁₆·5H₂O	0		9
Brewsterite-Sr ()*	Brewsterite	Sr(Al₂Si₆)O₁₆·5H₂O	2	122661,122666	8
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	122661,122662,122663,122664,122666	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	0		1252
Chamosite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Fe²⁺,Mg,Al,Fe³⁺)₆(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH,O)₈	1	122666	577
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	122666	814
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	122662,122663,122664,122666	24243
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	122664	717
Harmotome ()*	Harmotome	Ba₂(Si₁₂Al₄)O₃₂·12H₂O	5	122661,122662,122663,122664,122666	290
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	122666	1689
Heulandite-Ba ()*	Heulandite	(Ba,Ca,K)₅(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·22H₂O	1	122666	8
Heulandite-Sr ()*	Heulandite	(Sr,Ca,Na)₅(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·24H₂O	1	122666	9
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	122664	1066
Kainosite-(Y) ()*	None	Ca₂Y₂(SiO₃)₄(CO₃)·H₂O	3	122662,122664,122666	99
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	0		5674
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	1	122662	1066
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	122662,122663,122664,122666	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	122662,122666	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	122662,122663,122664,122666	21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	2	122661,122666	589
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	122666	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	0		5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R070120	Strontian, Highland, Scotland, UK	https://rruff.info/R070120
R070227	Strontian, Highland, Scotland, UK	https://rruff.info/R070227

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