Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Agrigento (Girgenti), Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 135363
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-135363.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Agrigento (Girgenti), Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Ciavolotta Mine (Ciaulotta Mine; Gibisa-Ciaulotta Mine)
Girgenti Meteorite

Latitude: 37°17'34"N
Longitude: 13°36'30"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.292777777778,13.608333333333

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Cerite	Copper	Corundum	Gypsum	Iron	None	Olivine
Pyroxene	Spinel	Sulphur

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Chromite ()*	Copper ()*
Enstatite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*
Sulphur ()*	Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*	Whitlockite ()*

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: C Ca Cr Cu Fe H Mg Ni O P S Si Sr Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Cerite Copper Corundum Gypsum Iron None Olivine
Pyroxene Spinel Sulphur

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	0		3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	71677	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	71677	1252
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	71678	3902
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	71678	3846
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	71678	944
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	71678	1188
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	71677	6890
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	71678	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	71678	1089
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	71677	2045
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	71678	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	71678	1044
Whitlockite ()*	Cerite	Ca₉Mg(PO₃OH)(PO₄)₆	1	71678	104

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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