Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

Important Update News

The RRUFF Project has been migrated to RRUFF.net. Please update your bookmarks immediately, if you have not done so.

The data on this website is already three years out of date, and the entire website will be taken offline before the end of the year.

We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Wetteraukreis, Hesse, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 307245
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-307245.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wetteraukreis, Hesse, Germany": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Büdingen
Butzbach
Friedberg
Gedern
Hirzenhain
Hungen Meteorite
Münzenberg
Rockenberg
Wölfersheim

Latitude: 50°26'41"N
Longitude: 8°53'23"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.444722222222,8.8897222222222

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	Arsenolite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Corundum	Diaspore	Garnet
Gismondine	Gypsum	Lepidocrocite	Malachite	Marcasite	Melanterite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite	Thomsonite	Vivianite

Andradite ()*	Annabergite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Arsenolite ()*	Baryte ()*
Cacoxenite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Galena ()*	Gismondine ()*	Goethite ()*	Grossular ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hematite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Melanterite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Offretite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Siderite ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Troilite ()*
Vivianite ()*

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 Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Na Ni O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Arsenolite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Corundum Diaspore Garnet
Gismondine Gypsum Lepidocrocite Malachite Marcasite Melanterite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite Thomsonite Vivianite

36 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	59638	1534
Annabergite ()*	Vivianite	Ni₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	59640	445
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	59636	3250
Arsenolite ()*	Arsenolite	As₂O₃	1	59640	231
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	59634,59642,59644	11547
Cacoxenite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂₄AlO₆(PO₄)₁₇(OH)₁₂·75H₂O	1	59634	280
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	59634,59636,59638,59644	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	59631,59638	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	59641	3902
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	59634	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	59629,59631	24243
Gismondine ()*	Gismondine	Ca₂(Si₄Al₄)O₁₆·8H₂O	1	59636	128
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	59634	7437
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	59638	1544
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	59634	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	59634,59638	14640
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	59631	1066
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	59634	581
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	59631,59638	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	59634	5674
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	59634	915
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	59636	1508
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	1	59640	633
Offretite ()*	Not in a structural group	KCaMg(Si₁₃Al₅)O₃₆·15H₂O	1	59636	146
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	59631,59634	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	59634	3106
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	59629	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	59629,59631,59642	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	59634	1711
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	59634	6417
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	59631	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	59631	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	2	59629,59631	1803
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	1	59636	452
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	59641	1044
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	59647	636

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...