Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Albigna Glacier, Albigna Valley, Bregaglia Valley (Bergell), Grisons, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 55724
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-55724.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Albigna Glacier, Albigna Valley, Bregaglia Valley (Bergell), Grisons, Switzerland": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Allanite	Aragonite	Arsenic	Bismutite	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Covellite	Descloizite
Digenite	Epidote	Fluorite	Linarite	Meneghinite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Scheelite
Schoepite	Tetradymite

Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Bertrandite ()*	Beyerite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismutite ()*
Bornite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Covellite ()*	Digenite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Friedrichite ()*
Gladite ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Krupkaite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Linarite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Mottramite ()*	Pekoite ()*	Powellite ()*	Quartz ()*
Scheelite ()*	Schoepite ()*	Tetradymite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*
Wulfenite ()*

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 Be Bi C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H Mo O Pb S Sb Si Te U V W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Be Bi C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H Mo O Pb S Sb Si Te U V W

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Aragonite Arsenic Bismutite Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Covellite Descloizite
Digenite Epidote Fluorite Linarite Meneghinite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Quartz Scheelite
Schoepite Tetradymite

31 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	706
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	606
Beyerite ()*	Bismutite	CaBi₂O₂(CO₃)₂	96
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1966
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	716
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	5516
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	4165
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1027
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9617
Friedrichite ()*	Meneghinite	Cu₅Pb₅Bi₇S₁₈	43
Gladite ()*	Meneghinite	CuPbBi₅S₉	67
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	784
Krupkaite ()*	Meneghinite	PbCuBi₃S₆	80
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1271
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	987
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	5800
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	362
Pekoite ()*	Meneghinite	CuPbBi₁₁S₁₈	39
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	494
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	4894
Schoepite ()*	Schoepite	(UO₂)₄O(OH)₆(H₂O)₆	94
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	510
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	890
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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