Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Egginer (Egginerhorn), Saas-Almagell, Saas Valley, Zermatt - Saas Fee Area, Valais, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 108287
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-108287.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Egginer (Egginerhorn), Saas-Almagell, Saas Valley, Zermatt - Saas Fee Area, Valais, Switzerland": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 46°4'31"N
Longitude: 7°55'48"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.075277777778,7.93

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	Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Epsomite	Feldspar	Garnet	None
Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Serpentine	Spinel	Titanite	Vesuvianite

Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Andradite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chrysotile ()*
Clinochlore ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Grossular ()*
Magnetite ()*	Morenosite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Titanite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*

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 F Fe H Mg Na Ni O P S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca F Fe H Mg Na Ni O P S Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Calcite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Epsomite Feldspar Garnet None
Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Serpentine Spinel Titanite Vesuvianite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2162
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1534
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	951
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1756
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2740
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1544
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	14899
Morenosite ()*	Epsomite	Ni(SO₄)·7H₂O	84
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4899
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1395

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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