Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
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: 34966
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-34966.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bad Ems, Bad Ems, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Bergmannstrost Mine (Lindenbach Mine)
Mercur Mine
Neuhoffnung Mine
Pfingstwiese Mine

Latitude: 50°21'30"N
Longitude: 7°43'13"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.358333333333,7.7202777777778

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	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Cobaltite	Copper
Epsomite	Linarite	Malachite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Stibnite	Ullmannite	Vivianite

Anglesite ()*	Annabergite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*
Breithauptite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cobaltite ()*	Copper ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Langite ()*	Linarite ()*	Malachite ()*	Morenosite ()*	Nickeline ()*
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Plumbogummite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	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: Ag Al 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:

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

30 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
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	354	248	2	61585,61587	2734
Annabergite ()*	Vivianite	Ni₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	354	248	1	61587	445
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	2	61587,61589	3250
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	354	248	1	61588	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	354	248	1	61589	5509
Breithauptite ()*	Nickeline	NiSb	354	248	1	61587	175
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	354	248	1	61585	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	354	248	1	61587	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	354	248	1	61587	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	354	248	4	61585,61587,61588,61589	27198
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	354	248	1	61587	966
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	354	248	2	61585,61587	3846
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	354	248	1	61587	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	354	248	4	61585,61587,61588,61589	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	354	248	1	61587	1689
Langite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O	354	248	1	61585	593
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	354	248	1	61585	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	354	248	2	61585,61589	12537
Morenosite ()*	Epsomite	Ni(SO₄)·7H₂O	354	248	1	61587	84
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	354	248	1	61587	633
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	354	248	3	61587,61588,61589	767
Plumbogummite ()*	Alunite	PbAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	354	248	2	61585,61586	170
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	354	248	1	61585	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	354	248	2	61587,61589	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	354	248	5	61585,61586,61587,61588,61589	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	354	248	4	61585,61587,61588,61589	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	354	248	4	61585,61587,61588,61589	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	354	248	4	61585,61587,61588,61589	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	354	248	1	61588	3418
Ullmannite ()*	Ullmannite	NiSbS	354	248	1	61587	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
R070329	Bad Ems, Bad Ems, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany	https://rruff.info/R070329

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