Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Snake Pit Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge Complex, Atlantic Ocean

mindat Locality ID: 55673
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-55673.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Snake Pit Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge Complex, Atlantic Ocean": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Beehive
Fir Tree Chimney
Moose Mound
Nail Chimney

Latitude: 23°21'59"N
Longitude: 44°56'40"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 23.366388888889,-44.944444444444

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	Amorphous	Atacamite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Corundum	Covellite	Cubanite	Diaspore
Feroxyhyte	Lepidocrocite	Marcasite	Nickeline	Nolanite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite
Sphalerite	Sulphur	Talc

Anhydrite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Covellite ()*	Feroxyhyte ()*	Ferrihydrite ()*	Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*
Isocubanite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Nontronite ()*
Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Talc ()*	Vernadite ()*

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 Ba Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Na O S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba Cu Fe H K Mg O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Atacamite Baryte Chalcopyrite Clay Corundum Covellite Cubanite Diaspore
Feroxyhyte Lepidocrocite Marcasite Nickeline Nolanite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Smectite-vermiculite
Sphalerite Sulphur Talc

23 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	3910	1588
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	3911	544
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	0		5516
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	3911,3912	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	0		4165
Feroxyhyte ()*	Feroxyhyte	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	3913	19
Ferrihydrite ()*	Nolanite	Fe³⁺₁₀O₁₄(OH)₂	2	3911,3913	86
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	3	3910,3911,3913	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0		14640
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	0		191
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0		2228
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	3910	581
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	0		5674
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	2	3911,3913	471
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	0		2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	3910,3911,3912	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	3910	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	3910,3911	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	0		2045
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	0		3337
Vernadite ()*	None	(Mn,Fe,Ca,Na)(O,OH)₂·nH₂O	1	3913	65

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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