Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Welkenraedt, Plombières-Vieille Montagne-Moresnet (Plombières-Altenberg-Moresnet) Mining District, Verviers, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Oldest recorded age at locality: 201
Youngest recorded age at locality: 145

mindat Locality ID: 320
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-320.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Welkenraedt, Plombières-Vieille Montagne-Moresnet (Plombières-Altenberg-Moresnet) Mining District, Verviers, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Dickenbusch Mine
Heggelsbrück Mine
Hoof
La Bruyère Mine
Nouvelle Espérence
Pandour Mine
Saint-Paul Mine
Wilcour Mine
Witter Mine

Latitude: 50°39'32"N
Longitude: 5°56'54"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 50.658888888889,5.9483333333333

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Corundum	Diaspore	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group
Phenakite	Pyrite	Pyrophyllite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Sulphur	Wurtzite

Anglesite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Greenockite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyromorphite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Willemite ()*

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: Al C Ca Cd Cl Fe H O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cd S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Corundum Diaspore Marcasite None Not in a structural group
Phenakite Pyrite Pyrophyllite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Sulphur Wurtzite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	201	145	1	25406	2734
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	201	145	1	25406	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	201	145	3	25400,25403,25406	4979
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	201	145	5	25400,25401,25403,25406,25407	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	201	145	1	25406	7437
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	201	145	0		717
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	201	145	2	25400,25406	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	201	145	5	25400,25401,25403,25405,25406	1689
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	201	145	2	25401,25406	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	201	145	6	25400,25401,25402,25403,25406,25407	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	201	145	2	25402,25406	1725
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	201	145	1	25406	771
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	201	145	1	25403	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	201	145	5	25400,25401,25403,25405,25406	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	201	145	6	25400,25401,25402,25403,25406,25407	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	201	145	1	25406	2045
Willemite ()*	Phenakite	Zn₂SiO₄	201	145	2	25401,25405	303

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedznpb-00052	201	145	Jurassic ?							Yes				301	Verviers, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium	Verviers	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

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