Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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.

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.

Acanthite	Arsenopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Malachite	Mica	None	Polybasite	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Talc	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Hessite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Polybasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Al As Au C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K Mg O Pb S Sb Si Te W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Cu Fe H K Mg O S Sb Si Te

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Malachite Mica None Polybasite Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Talc Tetrahedrite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	255523	2793
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	255525	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	0		9052
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	255524	2600
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	255516,255525,255532	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	255525	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	255516	14640
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	0		804
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	255519	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	0		17380
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	0		716
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	255500,255525,255532	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	255516,255519,255524,255525	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	255500	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	255523	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	255525	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	0		3337
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	255525	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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