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:
Berchtesgaden, Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 98647
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-98647.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Berchtesgaden, Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Berchtesgadener Salzberg
Jenner Massif
Marktschellenberg

Latitude: 47°38'34"N
Longitude: 13°1'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.642777777778,13.016666666667

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.

Amorphous	Aragonite	Atacamite	Calcite	Corundum	Descloizite	Epsomite	Fluorite	Gypsum	Malachite
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Sulphur	Tridymite
Vivianite

Anhydrite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Descloizite ()*
Epsomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Glauberite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Halite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Ice ()*	Magnesite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Polyhalite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Salammoniac ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Vivianite ()*

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 Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn N Na O P Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Aragonite Atacamite Calcite Corundum Descloizite Epsomite Fluorite Gypsum Malachite
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Sulphur Tridymite
Vivianite

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	58469	1588
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	58472	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	58472	3250
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	58469	544
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	1	58471	378
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	58469	484
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	58469	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	58469,58471	24243
Glauberite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(SO₄)₂	1	58469	137
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	3	58469,58471,58472	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	58469	1398
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	58469	14640
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	58471	1066
Ice ()*	Amorphous Tridymite	H₂O	1	58474	59
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	1	58469	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	58469	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	58469	12537
Polyhalite ()*	None	K₂Ca₂Mg(SO₄)₄·2H₂O	1	58469	102
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	58469,58472	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	58472	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	58469,58472	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	58472	1711
Salammoniac ()*	None	(NH₄)Cl	1	58469	105
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	58469	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	58471	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	58469	2045
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	58472	636

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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