Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
North Field, Schauinsland Pb-Zn Mining District, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 112
Youngest recorded age at locality: 108

mindat Locality ID: 32551
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-32551.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "North Field, Schauinsland Pb-Zn Mining District, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Leopold Adit (dump)
Roggenbach Vein

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Amorphous	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Gypsum	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Wurtzite

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Galena ()*	Greenockite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*
Linnaeite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Maucherite ()*	Opal ()*	Proustite ()*
Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Strontianite ()*

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 As Ba C Ca Cd Co Cu Fe H Mg Ni O Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Gypsum Marcasite None Not in a structural group Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Wurtzite

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	112	108	1	57593	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	112	108	1	57593	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	112	108	1	57593	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	112	108	1	57593	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	112	108	1	57593	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	112	108	2	57592,57593	24243
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	112	108	1	57593	717
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	112	108	1	57593	6890
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	112	108	1	57593	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	112	108	1	57593	1066
Linnaeite ()*	Spinel	Co²⁺Co³⁺₂S₄	112	108	2	57592,57593	249
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	112	108	1	57593	5674
Maucherite ()*	None	Ni₁₁As₈	112	108	2	57592,57593	161
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	112	108	1	57593	2994
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	112	108	1	57593	733
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	112	108	1	57593	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	112	108	1	57593	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	112	108	2	57592,57593	21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	112	108	1	57593	589

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Pfaff2009tbl06-28	112	108	110±2	Rb-Sr			sphalerite			Yes	Sphalerite			12412	Schauinsland Pb-Zn Mining District, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	Schauinsland, Schwarzwald ore district, Germany	Pfaff et al. (2009)	10.1127/0935-1221/2009/0021-1944	EJM21_817

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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