Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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.

Locality Name:
Ferriere, Nure Valley, Piacenza Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 206246
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-206246.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ferriere, Nure Valley, Piacenza Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Rocca
Serpentinite Outcrop
Solaro
Solaro 2 Old Mine

Latitude: 44°40'0"N
Longitude: 9°29'3"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.666666666667,9.4841666666667

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corrensite	Epidote	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Serpentine	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Talc

Aliettite ()*	Anatase ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysotile ()*	Epidote ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Saponite ()*	Siderite ()*	Talc ()*	Vermiculite ()*

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 C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Na O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Cu Fe H O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corrensite Epidote Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Serpentine Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Talc

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aliettite ()*	Corrensite Clay	Ca_0.2Mg₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·4H₂O	1	69038	7
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	69039	2162
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	69040	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	69037,69040	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	69038	951
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		8173
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	69040	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	69040	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	69037,69039,69040	61156
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	69038	301
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	69037	6417
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	69038	3337
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	1	69038	652

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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