Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Saar Coal Mining Area, Saarland, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 38281
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-38281.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Saar Coal Mining Area, Saarland, Germany": 26
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Bexbach
Neunkirchen
Saarbrücken
St Ingbert
Sulzbach
Völklingen

Latitude: 49°17'49"N
Longitude: 7°5'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 49.296944444444,7.0833333333333

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.

Alum	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Kaolinite	Lepidocrocite	Marcasite
Melanterite	Millerite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Sulphur

Alum-(K) ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Dickite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Millerite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Salammoniac ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg N Ni O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alum Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Kaolinite Lepidocrocite Marcasite
Melanterite Millerite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Sulphur

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alum-(K) ()*	Alum	KAl(SO₄)₂·12H₂O	1	61864	92
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	61868	1588
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	61874	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	61870,61871	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	61879	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	6	61856,61859,61868,61870,61871,61877	27198
Dickite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	61870	651
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	4	61868,61870,61874,61877	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	61879	24243
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	61855	581
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	2	61868,61877	5674
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	61864	915
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	6	61856,61859,61861,61868,61870,61874	1066
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	61864,61868,61870,61877	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	61879	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	61866,61868	61156
Salammoniac ()*	None	(NH₄)Cl	2	61864,61874	105
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	7	61856,61859,61868,61870,61871,61874,61877	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	61856,61859,61871,61874	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	2	61864,61874	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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