Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Newton Stewart, Dumfries And Galloway, Scotland, UK

mindat Locality ID: 3044
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3044.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Newton Stewart, Dumfries And Galloway, Scotland, UK": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Talnotry

Latitude: 55°0'56"N
Longitude: 4°22'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 55.015555555556,-4.3702777777778

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.

Chalcopyrite	Copper	Melonite	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Perovskite	Pyrite	Quartz	Skutterudite
Tetradymite	Ullmannite

Argentopentlandite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Froodite ()*	Gold ()*
Irarsite ()*	Matildite ()*	Merenskyite ()*	Michenerite ()*	Nickeline ()*
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Skutterudite ()*
Sperrylite ()*	Tellurobismuthite ()*

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 As Au Bi C Ca Co Cu Fe Ir Mg Ni O Pd Pt S Si Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Mg O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Copper Melonite Nickeline None Pentlandite Perovskite Pyrite Quartz Skutterudite
Tetradymite Ullmannite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Argentopentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	Ag(Fe,Ni)₈S₈	1	122308	67
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	122306	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	0		9895
Froodite ()*	None	PdBi₂	1	122306	62
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	122306	30554
Irarsite ()*	Pyrite	IrAsS	1	122306	154
Matildite ()*	None	AgBiS₂	1	122308	252
Merenskyite ()*	Melonite	PdTe₂	1	122306	155
Michenerite ()*	Ullmannite	PdBiTe	1	122306	114
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	1	122307	633
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	2	122306,122307	767
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	122307,122308	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2	122306,122307	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	122308	61156
Skutterudite ()*	Skutterudite Perovskite	CoAs₃	1	122308	531
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	1	122306	337
Tellurobismuthite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₃	1	122307	276

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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