Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Rengersdorf, Görlitz, Saxony, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 31773
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-31773.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Rengersdorf, Görlitz, Saxony, Germany": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Field Near The Hochstraße
Heideberg

Latitude: 51°13'41"N
Longitude: 14°52'46"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.228055555556,14.879444444444

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	Amorphous	Beraunite	Diaspore	Dufrénite	Gypsum	None	Phosphofibrite	Pyrite	Turquoise
Wardite

Cacoxenite ()*	Chalcosiderite ()*	Churchite-(Y) ()*	Cyrilovite ()*	Dufrénite ()*
Eleonorite ()*	Faustite ()*	Goethite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kidwellite ()*
Lithiophorite ()*	Meurigite-K ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*	Strengite ()*
Turquoise ()*

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 Ca Cu Fe H K Li Mn Na O P S Si Y Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Beraunite Diaspore Dufrénite Gypsum None Phosphofibrite Pyrite Turquoise
Wardite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cacoxenite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂₄AlO₆(PO₄)₁₇(OH)₁₂·75H₂O	1	62827	280
Chalcosiderite ()*	Turquoise	CuFe³⁺₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	62827	77
Churchite-(Y) ()*	Gypsum	Y(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	62827	70
Cyrilovite ()*	Wardite	NaFe³⁺₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₄·2H₂O	1	62827	60
Dufrénite ()*	Dufrénite	Ca_0.5Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₅(PO₄)₄(OH)₆·2H₂O	1	62827	139
Eleonorite ()*	Beraunite	Fe³⁺₆(PO₄)₄O(OH)₄·6H₂O	1	62827	51
Faustite ()*	Turquoise	ZnAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	62827	24
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	62827	7437
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	62827	2228
Kidwellite ()*	None	NaFe³⁺_9+x(PO₄)₆(OH)₁₁·3H₂O (x ≈ 0.33)	1	62827	53
Lithiophorite ()*	None	(Al,Li)(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂(OH)₂	1	62829	210
Meurigite-K ()*	Phosphofibrite	KFe³⁺₈(PO₄)₆(OH)₇·6.5H₂O	1	62827	21
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	62827	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	62827	39462
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	62827	263
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	62827	484

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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