Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Neustadt In Sachsen, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 309742
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-309742.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Neustadt In Sachsen, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Grenzland I Quarry
Oberottendorf Quarry
Unnamed Quarry
Valtengrund Quarry

Latitude: 51°3'55"N
Longitude: 14°16'23"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.065277777778,14.273055555556

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	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Melonite	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Stilpnomelane	Tetradymite

Altaite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Froodite ()*	Gold ()*
Hessite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Melonite ()*	Merenskyite ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sperrylite ()*	Stilpnomelane ()*	Tsumoite ()*

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 Au Bi Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na Ni O Pb Pd Pt S Si Te Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Melonite Nickeline None Pentlandite Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Stilpnomelane Tetradymite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Altaite ()*	Rocksalt	PbTe	3	63014,63016,63017	489
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	63016	1966
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	63014,63016,63017	27198
Froodite ()*	None	PdBi₂	1	63016	62
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	63014	30554
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	2	63014,63016	804
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2	63014,63016	5433
Melonite ()*	Melonite	NiTe₂	1	63014	207
Merenskyite ()*	Melonite	PdTe₂	1	63014	155
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	2	63014,63017	1512
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	3	63014,63016,63017	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	63014,63017	61156
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	1	63014	337
Stilpnomelane ()*	Stilpnomelane Clay	(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)₈(Si,Al)₁₂(O,OH)₃₆·nH₂O	1	63014	456
Tsumoite ()*	Tetradymite	BiTe	3	63014,63016,63017	100

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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