Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Bernburg, Stassfurt Potash Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

mindat Locality ID: 14827
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14827.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bernburg, Stassfurt Potash Deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Clarahall
Friedenshall (Solvayhall)
Gröna Mine

Latitude: 51°47'44"N
Longitude: 11°44'21"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.795555555556,11.739166666667

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.

Alunite	Atacamite	Baryte	Boracite	Carnallite	Covellite	Langbeinite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Rocksalt	Spinel

Anhydrite ()*	Avdoninite ()*	Boracite ()*	Carnallite ()*	Celestine ()*
Clinoatacamite ()*	Covellite ()*	Fletcherite ()*	Gillardite ()*	Halite ()*
Jarosite ()*	Kainite ()*	Langbeinite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Sylvite ()*

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: B Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Na Ni O S Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cl Cu H K Mg O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Atacamite Baryte Boracite Carnallite Covellite Langbeinite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Rocksalt Spinel

15 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	63467	1588
Avdoninite ()*	None	K₂Cu₅Cl₈(OH)₄·2H₂O	1	63467	5
Boracite ()*	Boracite	Mg₃B₇O₁₃Cl	2	63466,63467	57
Carnallite ()*	Carnallite	KMgCl₃·6H₂O	1	63466	132
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	63467	1252
Clinoatacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	0		43
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	63467	4165
Fletcherite ()*	Spinel	CuNi₂S₄	1	63467	13
Gillardite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃NiCl₂(OH)₆	1	63467	3
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	2	63466,63467	1398
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	63467	2228
Kainite ()*	None	KMg(SO₄)Cl·2.75H₂O	0		50
Langbeinite ()*	Langbeinite	K₂Mg₂(SO₄)₃	1	63466	43
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	63467	39462
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	1	63467	275

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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