Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mercur Mine, Bad Ems, Bad Ems, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Oldest recorded age at locality: 354
Youngest recorded age at locality: 248

mindat Locality ID: 34227
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-34227.html

Tectonic Settings: Continental Extension

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mercur Mine, Bad Ems, Bad Ems, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 50°21'31"N
Longitude: 7°43'14"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.358611111111,7.7205555555556

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	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Cobaltite	Copper	Epsomite	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Ullmannite	Vivianite

Anglesite ()*	Annabergite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Breithauptite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cobaltite ()*	Copper ()*	Dolomite ()*
Galena ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Morenosite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Ullmannite ()*

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: As C Ca Cl Co Cu Fe H Mg Ni O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As C Ca Cl Co Cu Fe H Mg Ni O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Cobaltite Copper Epsomite Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Ullmannite Vivianite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	354	248	2734
Annabergite ()*	Vivianite	Ni₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	354	248	445
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	3250
Breithauptite ()*	Nickeline	NiSb	354	248	175
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	354	248	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	354	248	27198
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	354	248	966
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	354	248	3846
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	354	248	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	354	248	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	354	248	1689
Morenosite ()*	Epsomite	Ni(SO₄)·7H₂O	354	248	84
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	354	248	633
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	354	248	767
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	354	248	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	354	248	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	354	248	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	354	248	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	354	248	21482
Ullmannite ()*	Ullmannite	NiSbS	354	248	293

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
	Hg-00059	354	248		?-?						Yes		Cinnabar, Corderoite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Moschellandsbergite, Perroudite, Poyarkovite, Shakhovite, Tiemannite, Eglestonite	Hg	14243	Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany		Krupp (1984); Krupp et al. (1989)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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