Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Frankenberg, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 57909
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-57909.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Frankenberg, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Auerswalde
Euba
Langenstriegis
Sachsenburg

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Feldspar	Fluorite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz
Rocksalt	Wavellite

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Malachite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Variscite ()*	Wavellite ()*

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 F Fe H K O P Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Chalcopyrite Feldspar Fluorite Malachite None Not in a structural group Quartz
Rocksalt Wavellite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	61967	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	61967	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	61967,61972	11547
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	61967	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	61972	27198
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	61965	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	61967,61972	24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	61967	12537
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	61965	2349
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	61967	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	61964,61965,61972	61156
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	61969	301
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	1	61969	374

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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