Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Villefort, Lozère, Occitanie, France

mindat Locality ID: 229481
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-229481.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Villefort, Lozère, Occitanie, France": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Altier
Le Pouget Mine
Les Balmelles Mine
Mas Imbert Mine

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brochantite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Fluorite	Linarite	Malachite	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Brochantite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Linarite ()*
Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	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: Ag Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Mo O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brochantite Chalcopyrite Copper Fluorite Linarite Malachite None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	55735	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	55736	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	55736,55737,55738	11547
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	55735	1633
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	55735	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	55736	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	55736,55738	27198
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	55734	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	55736,55737,55738	24243
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	55735	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	55735,55736,55738	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	55734	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	55735	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	55734,55736,55737,55738	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	0		5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	55736,55737,55738	21482
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	55735	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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