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Locality Name:
Forstau Valley, Radstädter Tauern, Salzburg, Austria


mindat Locality ID: 45042
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-45042.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Forstau Valley, Radstädter Tauern, Salzburg, Austria": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Bremstall Alp
Buckelwald
Fager Alp
Forstau
Kranzlhöhe

Latitude: 47°17'16"N
Longitude: 13°36'8"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.287777777778,13.602222222222

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Bi C Ca Co Cu F Fe H Hg Mg Mo Ni O Pb S Sb Si Ti U Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteArsenicArsenopyriteBaryteBournoniteCalciteChalcopyriteCobaltiteCorundumEnargite
FluoriteGeocroniteMarcasiteMolybdeniteNickelineNoneNot in a structural groupPerovskitePyritePyrochlore
QuartzRocksaltRutileSkutteruditeSphaleriteSpinelStibniteTetrahedriteTitaniteVivianite
Wurtzite

38 IMA Minerals at location:
Anatase  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Baryte  (*)Bismuth  (*)Bismuthinite  (*)
Boulangerite  (*)Bournonite  (*)Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)
Cinnabar  (*)Cobaltite  (*)Dolomite  (*)Enargite  (*)Erythrite  (*)
Fluorite  (*)Galena  (*)Geocronite  (*)Graphite  (*)Hematite  (*)
Hemimorphite  (*)Hydrozincite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Marcasite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)
Nickelskutterudite  (*)Oxyplumboroméite  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Rutile  (*)Smithsonite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)Titanite  (*)Uraninite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Anatase  (*)Not in a structural groupTiO21224622162
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS1224629052
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)12246311547
Bismuth  (*)ArsenicBi1224621966
Bismuthinite  (*)StibniteBi2S31224621935
Boulangerite  (*)NonePb5Sb4S11122463843
Bournonite  (*)BournoniteCuPbSbS31224631089
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)12246327770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)1224634979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS212246227198
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS1224632600
Cobaltite  (*)CobaltiteCoAsS122462966
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)2222462,224639895
Enargite  (*)Enargite WurtziteCu3AsS4122463910
Erythrite  (*)VivianiteCo3(AsO4)2·8H2O122462814
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF21224639617
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS222462,2246324243
Geocronite  (*)GeocronitePb14Sb6S23122463133
Graphite  (*)NoneC1224622812
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O312246214640
Hemimorphite  (*)Not in a structural groupZn4(Si2O7)(OH)2·H2O1224631689
Hydrozincite  (*)NoneZn5(CO3)2(OH)61224631066
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O412246214899
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS21224625674
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS21224625800
Nickelskutterudite  (*)Skutterudite Perovskite(Ni,Co,Fe)As3122462176
Oxyplumboroméite  (*)PyrochlorePb2Sb2O712246333
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS31224621425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2522458,22459,22460,22462,2246339462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S81224629056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO212246361156
Rutile  (*)RutileTiO21224625614
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)1224632473
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS222462,2246321482
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S13222462,224631803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S131224635317
Titanite  (*)TitaniteCaTi(SiO4)O1224624899
Uraninite  (*)FluoriteUO2422458,22459,22460,224622718



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