Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Oughterard, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland

mindat Locality ID: 157061
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-157061.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Oughterard, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Barnagorteeny Mine
Canrawer West Mine
Claremount Mine
Clooshgereen Mines (Cloosh Mine; Cregg Mine; Cloost Mine)
Glan Mines
Glengowla
Lemonfield Mine

Latitude: 53°26'2"N
Longitude: 9°21'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 53.433888888889,-9.3572222222222

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Fluorite	None	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt
Scheelite	Sphalerite	Sulphur

Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Diopside ()*
Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Langite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*

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: Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg O Pb S Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Fluorite None Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt
Scheelite Sphalerite Sulphur

14 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)	1	67913	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	67905,67907,67913	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	67907,67909,67911,67912,67913	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	6	67905,67907,67909,67910,67911,67913	27198
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	67909	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	67909,67913	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	67909,67913	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	10	67904,67905,67906,67907,67909,67910,67911,67913,67914,67915	24243
Langite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O	1	67909	593
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6	67905,67907,67909,67910,67913,67915	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	67907,67909,67910,67911,67913,67914	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	2	67909,67911	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	67909,67913,67914,67915	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	0		2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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