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:
Sapes Mine ("Sappes Mine"), Alexandroupoli, Evros, East Macedonia And Thrace, Greece

mindat Locality ID: 41608
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-41608.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sapes Mine ("Sappes Mine"), Alexandroupoli, Evros, East Macedonia And Thrace, Greece": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Viper Deposit (The Viper Deposit)

Latitude: 41°0'59"N
Longitude: 25°45'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.016388888889,25.766388888889

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	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Diaspore	Enargite	Kaolinite	Mica	None
Pyrite	Pyrophyllite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stannite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Alunite ()*	Baryte ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Diaspore ()*	Dickite ()*
Enargite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Goldfieldite ()*	Hinsdalite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Luzonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Svanbergite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Woodhouseite ()*

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 As Au Ba Ca Cu Fe H K O P Pb S Sb Si Sr Te Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Cu S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Baryte Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Diaspore Enargite Kaolinite Mica None
Pyrite Pyrophyllite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stannite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	64217	966
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	64217	11547
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	64217	27198
Diaspore ()*	Diaspore	AlO(OH)	1	64217	481
Dickite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	64217	651
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	64217	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	64217	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	64217	30554
Goldfieldite ()*	Tetrahedrite	(Cu₄ ₂)Cu₆Te₄S₁₃	1	64217	72
Hinsdalite ()*	Alunite	PbAl₃(SO₄)(PO₄)(OH)₆	1	64217	82
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	64217	5591
Luzonite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃AsS₄	0		198
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	64217	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	64217	39462
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	64217	771
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	64217	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	64217	21482
Svanbergite ()*	Alunite	SrAl₃(SO₄)(PO₄)(OH)₆	1	64217	105
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	64217	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	64217	5317
Woodhouseite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(SO₄)(PO₄)(OH)₆	1	64217	62

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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