Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Overberget Mining Field, Kongsberg Silver Mining District, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway

mindat Locality ID: 49968
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-49968.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Overberget Mining Field, Kongsberg Silver Mining District, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway": 43
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 42

Number of Child Localities: 41
Child Localities:
Armen Mine
Bratteskjerpet Mine
Christian 7th Northern Adit
Christian 7th Southern Adit (Saggrenda)
Dronning Louisa Mine
Egebjörn Prospect
Else Mine
Fortuna Mine
Fredrik 5th Mine
Fredriks Adit - North
Gabe Gottes Mine
Gamle Justis Mine
Gnade Gottes Mine
Gott Bescheret Ertz Mine
Gottes Hülfe In Der Not Mine (Gottes Hülfe Mine)
Grev Bernsdorfs Mine
Gud Med Kronprinsen Mine
Hackner Prospect
Haus Oldenburg Adit
Haus Oldenburg Mine
Haus Sachsen
Justis Prospect
Kongens Mine
Kronprins Fredriks Adit
Kronprins Fredriks Mine
Kronprinsens Mine
Lichtloch 1 Prospect
Lichtloch 3 Prospect
Mildigkeit Mine (Mildigkeit Gottes Mine)
Morgenstern Mines
Nye Justis Mine
Prins Carl Mine (Prins Carl Af Hessen Mine)
Rosengangen Mine
Sachsen Adit
Sachsen Prospect
Siebenbrüder Adit
Siebenbrüder Mine
Sillemyr Prospect
Søndre Kronprinsen Prospect
Svarte Torstein Mine (Lichtloch 2 Prospect)
Willen Gottes Mine

Latitude: 59°39'42"N
Longitude: 9°35'7"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 59.661666666667,9.5852777777778

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.

Acanthite	Allargentum	Apophyllite	Aragonite	Axinite	Baryte	Brewsterite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite
Copper	Corundum	Cubanite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Gypsum	Harmotome	Heulandite
Jalpaite	Marcasite	Milarite	Natrolite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Polybasite	Prehnite
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Titanite	Vivianite	Wurtzite

Acanthite ()*	Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Anatase ()*	Ankerite ()*
Annabergite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Argentopentlandite ()*	Argentopyrite ()*	Armenite ()*
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Baryte ()*	Brewsterite-Ba ()*	Brewsterite-Sr ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Cubanite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Dyscrasite ()*	Epidote ()*	Erythrite ()*	Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Harmotome ()*	Heulandite-Ba ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Jalpaite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Microcline ()*	Mirabilite ()*
Polybasite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rapidcreekite ()*	Scolecite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stephanite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Thénardite ()*	Titanite ()*

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 B Ba C Ca Cl Co Cu F Fe H Hg K Mg Na Ni O Pb S Sb Si Sr Ti Zn

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allargentum Apophyllite Aragonite Axinite Baryte Brewsterite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite
Copper Corundum Cubanite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Gypsum Harmotome Heulandite
Jalpaite Marcasite Milarite Natrolite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Polybasite Prehnite
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Titanite Vivianite Wurtzite

49 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	5	91115,91126,91134,91136,91142	2793
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	91115,91153	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		2353
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	3	91115,91136,91142	2162
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	91136	3092
Annabergite ()*	Vivianite	Ni₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	91142	445
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	91142	3250
Argentopentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	Ag(Fe,Ni)₈S₈	1	91136	67
Argentopyrite ()*	Cubanite	AgFe₂S₃	1	91136	53
Armenite ()*	Milarite	BaCa₂(Al₆Si₉)O₃₀·2H₂O	2	91112,91113	23
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Fe²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	3	91113,91126,91142	260
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	5	91113,91126,91134,91136,91142	11547
Brewsterite-Ba ()*	Brewsterite	Ba(Al₂Si₆)O₁₆·5H₂O	1	91113	9
Brewsterite-Sr ()*	Brewsterite	Sr(Al₂Si₆)O₁₆·5H₂O	1	91113	8
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6	91112,91113,91126,91134,91136,91142	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	91113,91126,91142	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	2	91131,91145	1382
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	91126	2600
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	91136	802
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	91136	9895
Dyscrasite ()*	Allargentum	Ag_3+xSb_1-x (x ≈ 0.2)	1	91136	180
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	91113,91126	8173
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	2	91126,91142	814
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	1	91126	303
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	3	91126,91136,91142	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	91113,91126,91132	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	91126	6890
Harmotome ()*	Harmotome	Ba₂(Si₁₂Al₄)O₃₂·12H₂O	3	91113,91126,91142	290
Heulandite-Ba ()*	Heulandite	(Ba,Ca,K)₅(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·22H₂O	1	91113	8
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	91115	5433
Jalpaite ()*	Jalpaite	Ag₃CuS₂	2	91126,91136	116
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	3	91126,91138,91142	1271
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	2	91134,91136	5674
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	91113	4924
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	2	91115,91126	223
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	2	91126,91142	716
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	91113	1898
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	2	91136,91142	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	91113,91115,91126,91132,91142	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	91112	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	91112,91113,91115,91116,91126,91134,91142	61156
Rapidcreekite ()*	None	Ca₂(SO₄)(CO₃)·4H₂O	1	91142	10
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	2	91121,91137	390
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	22	91112,91115,91116,91117,91118,91119,91120,91122,91123,91125,91126,91128,91131,91134,91136,91138,91139,91142,91145,91146,91150,91154	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	91113,91126,91132,91142	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	3	91126,91134,91142	586
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	91142	5317
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	1	91136	299
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	91132	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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