Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
La Mothe Quarry, La Roche-Ballue, Bouguenais, Loire-Atlantique, Pays De La Loire, France

mindat Locality ID: 63171
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-63171.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "La Mothe Quarry, La Roche-Ballue, Bouguenais, Loire-Atlantique, Pays De La Loire, France": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

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.

Acanthite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Covellite	Digenite	Feldspar	Lillianite
Marcasite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cosalite ()*	Covellite ()*	Digenite ()*	Eskimoite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Gustavite ()*	Heyrovskýite ()*	Lillianite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Scorodite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Vikingite ()*

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 Au Bi Ca Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Au Bi Ca Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Baryte Chalcopyrite Copper Covellite Digenite Feldspar Lillianite
Marcasite Molybdenite Nickeline None Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

24 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	9052
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1966
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Cosalite ()*	None	Pb₂Bi₂S₅	344
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	4165
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1027
Eskimoite ()*	Lillianite	Ag₇Pb₁₀Bi₁₅S₃₆	20
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	30554
Gustavite ()*	Lillianite	AgPbBi₃S₆	113
Heyrovskýite ()*	Lillianite	Pb₆Bi₂S₉	66
Lillianite ()*	Lillianite	Pb_3-2xAg_xBi_2+xS₆	128
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	5800
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2349
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	4894
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	5317
Vikingite ()*	Lillianite	Ag₅Pb₈Bi₁₃S₃₀	27

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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