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:
Schäffler Alp District, Zauchen, Hochobir, Karawanken, Carinthia, Austria

mindat Locality ID: 46715
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-46715.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Schäffler Alp District, Zauchen, Hochobir, Karawanken, Carinthia, Austria": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Lower Schäffler Alp
Upper Schäffler Alp

Latitude: 46°30'35"N
Longitude: 14°32'54"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.509722222222,14.548333333333

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	Amorphous	Apatite	Aragonite	Calcite	Descloizite	Gypsum	Marcasite	Melanterite	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sulphur	Tridymite

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Descloizite ()*	Galena ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Ice ()*	Jarosite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Vanadinite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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: C Ca Cl Fe H K Mo O Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe H O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Calcite Descloizite Gypsum Marcasite Melanterite None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sulphur Tridymite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	20175,20176	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	20175,20177,20181,20183	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	3	20179,20181,20183	4979
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	5	20179,20180,20181,20182,20183	378
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	20177,20179,20183	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	20181	6890
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	2	20179,20181	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	20179	1066
Ice ()*	Amorphous Tridymite	H₂O	1	20176	59
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	20181	2228
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	20181	5674
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	0		915
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	20181	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	3	20175,20179,20181	2473
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	20177	2045
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	4	20179,20180,20182,20183	605
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	5	20177,20179,20181,20182,20183	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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