Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Cher, Centre-Val De Loire, France

mindat Locality ID: 107940
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-107940.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cher, Centre-Val De Loire, France": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Bourges
Châteaumeillant
Cours-les-Barres
Cuffy
Lazenay
Saint-Florent-sur-Cher
Sancerre-Couy Drilling

Latitude: 46°55'40"N
Longitude: 2°37'29"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.927777777778,2.6247222222222

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.

Amorphous	Amphibole	Baryte	Beryl	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote
Feldspar	Mica	Millerite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz
Rocksalt	Rutile	Scapolite	Sepiolite	Spinel	Staurolite	Talc	Titanite	Tourmaline	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Augite ()*	Baryte ()*
Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Cordierite ()*	Corundum ()*	Diopside ()*
Epidote ()*	Forsterite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Kyanite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Marialite ()*	Millerite ()*	Opal ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Schorl ()*	Sepiolite ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spinel ()*	Staurolite ()*
Talc ()*	Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Au B Ba C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Na Ni O Pb S Si Sn Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Amphibole Baryte Beryl Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote
Feldspar Mica Millerite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Olivine Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz
Rocksalt Rutile Scapolite Sepiolite Spinel Staurolite Talc Titanite Tourmaline Zircon

34 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	53489	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	53489	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	53482	2162
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	3	53480,53485,53489	2060
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	53476,53482	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	53477,53486,53489	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	53480	5171
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	53480	1008
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	2	53482,53485	1797
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	53489	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	53480	8173
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	53489	1188
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	53480	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	53482,53485	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	53482	14640
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	53485	1507
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	53482	14899
Marialite ()*	Scapolite	Na₄Al₃Si₉O₂₄Cl	1	53489	139
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	1	53489	1066
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	53477	2994
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	53489	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	53474,53480,53489	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	53480	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	53477,53482,53485	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	53480	5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	53485	2705
Sepiolite ()*	Sepiolite Clay	Mg₄Si₆O₁₅(OH)₂·6H₂O	1	53477	241
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	53482	1516
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	53482	1934
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	2	53482,53485	978
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	53489	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	53482,53485	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	53489	2562
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	53480,53485	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...