Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Visp, Valais, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 130564
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130564.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Visp, Valais, Switzerland": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Ausserberg
Baltschieder Valley
Eggerberg Railway Tunnel
Lalden
Mälchgrat
Zeneggen

Latitude: 46°19'53"N
Longitude: 7°52'55"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.331388888889,7.8819444444444

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.

Alunite	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brookite	Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Columbite	Corundum
Crichtonite	Diaspore	Feldspar	Fluorite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	Monazite	None	Not in a structural group
Phenakite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Titanite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bertrandite ()*
Brookite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Cerussite ()*	Clinochlore ()*
Crichtonite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Ferberite ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Jarosite ()*
Kainosite-(Y) ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*
Phenakite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Powellite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Synchysite-(Ce) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Titanite ()*	Vanadinite ()*	Wulfenite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*

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 Ba Be C Ca Ce Cl Cr Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si Sr Ti U V W Y Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brookite Calcite Chlorite Clay Columbite Corundum
Crichtonite Diaspore Feldspar Fluorite Malachite Mica Molybdenite Monazite None Not in a structural group
Phenakite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Titanite Zircon

39 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	115277	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	7	115261,115267,115270,115272,115273,115276,115277	2162
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	115273	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	115261,115273,115274	11547
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	1	115262	606
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	115273	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	115261,115265,115272,115273	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	2	115273,115274	1252
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	115273	4979
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	115277	1756
Crichtonite ()*	Crichtonite	Sr(Mn,Y,U)Fe₂(Ti,Fe,Cr,V)₁₈(O,OH)₃₈	1	115277	27
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	115261,115272,115273	9895
Ferberite ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺(WO₄)	1	115264	551
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	1	115264	345
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	6	115261,115263,115272,115273,115274,115276	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	115264,115272,115273	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	115276	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	115262,115277	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	115264	5433
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	115274	2228
Kainosite-(Y) ()*	None	Ca₂Y₂(SiO₃)₄(CO₃)·H₂O	1	115266	99
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	115273	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	115262,115264	5800
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	3	115261,115267,115270	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	115276	17380
Phenakite ()*	Phenakite	Be₂(SiO₄)	1	115270	326
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	3	115268,115272,115273	2273
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	1	115264	494
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	115273,115277	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	115263,115265,115269,115272,115273,115275,115276,115277	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	4	115264,115270,115275,115277	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	115264	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	115273	21482
Synchysite-(Ce) ()*	None	CaCe(CO₃)₂F	1	115263	232
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	115261,115273	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	115262,115264	4899
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	1	115273	605
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	115273	1655
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	115262	939

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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