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Locality Name:
Prevat Valley, Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 133255
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-133255.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Prevat Valley, Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Monte Prosa
Ovi Della Sella
Pizzo Giubine (Giübin)
Sella Lake

Latitude: 46°33'42"N
Longitude: 8°34'52"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.561666666667,8.5811111111111

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	Beryl	Brookite	Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Corundum	Feldspar	Fluorite	Mica
None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rutile	Titanite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Bazzite ()*	Bertrandite ()*	Brookite ()*
Clinochlore ()*	Euclase ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Hematite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Siderite ()*
Titanite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*

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 C Ca F Fe H K Mg Na O P Sc Si Ti Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Beryl Brookite Calcite Chlorite Clay Corundum Feldspar Fluorite Mica
None Not in a structural group Quartz Rutile Titanite Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	114441	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	114439	2162
Bazzite ()*	Beryl	Be₃(Sc,Fe³⁺,Mg)₂Si₆O₁₈·Na_0.32·nH₂O	1	114439	51
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	1	114440	606
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	114439	700
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	114441	1756
Euclase ()*	None	BeAlSiO₄(OH)	1	114441	120
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	114442	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	114442	9617
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	114439	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	114441	5433
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	114441	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	114439,114441	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	114441	5614
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	114441	6417
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	114442	4899
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	114439	939

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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