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:
Poschiavina Valley, Campo Moro Valley, Lanzada, Lanterna Valley, Malenco Valley, Valtellina, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 259336
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-259336.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Poschiavina Valley, Campo Moro Valley, Lanzada, Lanterna Valley, Malenco Valley, Valtellina, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Canciano Peak
Mt. Spondascia
Ur Pass

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.

Arsenopyrite	Brookite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Corundum	Covellite	Cubanite	Digenite
Feldspar	Fluorite	Gypsum	Lazulite	Marcasite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Orpiment
Pentlandite	Perovskite	Pyrite	Pyrophyllite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel
Stibnite	Wurtzite

Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Brookite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Covellite ()*	Cubanite ()*
Digenite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Lazulite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Orpiment ()*	Pararealgar ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Perovskite ()*
Pharmacolite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Realgar ()*	Rutile ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Valentinite ()*

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 As C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Na Ni O P Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Brookite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Corundum Covellite Cubanite Digenite
Feldspar Fluorite Gypsum Lazulite Marcasite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Orpiment
Pentlandite Perovskite Pyrite Pyrophyllite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel
Stibnite Wurtzite

35 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	70152	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	70152	2162
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	70152	9052
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	70152	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	70152	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	70154	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	70152,70154	27198
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	70153	1756
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	70154	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	70154	802
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	70154	1027
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	70153	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	70152	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	70152	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	70152	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	70152	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	70153	5433
Lazulite ()*	Lazulite	MgAl₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂	1	70152	232
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	70153,70154	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	70152	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	70152	17380
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃	1	70152	511
Pararealgar ()*	None	As₄S₄	1	70152	57
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	70154	1512
Perovskite ()*	Perovskite	CaTiO₃	1	70153	495
Pharmacolite ()*	Gypsum	Ca(AsO₃OH)·2H₂O	1	70152	105
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	70152,70154	39462
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	70152	771
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	70154	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	70152	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	1	70152	712
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	70152	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	70154	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	70152	3418
Valentinite ()*	None	Sb₂O₃	1	70152	369

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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