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:
Ultimo Valley (Ulten Valley), Bolzano-Alto Adige Autonomous Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Oldest recorded age at locality: 260
Youngest recorded age at locality: 260

mindat Locality ID: 130818
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130818.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ultimo Valley (Ulten Valley), Bolzano-Alto Adige Autonomous Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Auerberg Valley
Vedetta Alta (Hochwart)

Latitude: 46°31'3"N
Longitude: 10°59'54"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.5175,10.998333333333

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.

Allanite	Calcite	Clay	Epidote	Fluorite	Garnet	Mica	Nickeline	None	Olivine
Pentlandite	Pyroxene	Spinel	Zircon

Calcite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dissakisite-(La) ()*	Dolomite ()*	Enstatite ()*
Forsterite ()*	Hercynite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pyrope ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Spinel ()*	Thorianite ()*	Thorite ()*	Uraninite ()*
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 C Ca Fe H K La Mg Ni O S Si Th U Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Calcite Clay Epidote Fluorite Garnet Mica Nickeline None Olivine
Pentlandite Pyroxene Spinel Zircon

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	260	260	1	72164	27770
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	260	260	1	72163	4135
Dissakisite-(La) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaLa(Al₂Mg)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	260	260	1	72164	3
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	260	260	1	72164	9895
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	260	260	1	72163	944
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	260	260	1	72164	1188
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	260	260	1	72163	407
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	260	260	1	72164	1512
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	260	260	1	72164	2273
Pyrope ()*	Garnet	Mg₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	260	260	2	72163,72164	341
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	260	260	1	72163	9056
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	260	260	1	72164	1934
Thorianite ()*	Fluorite	ThO₂	260	260	1	72164	236
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	260	260	1	72164	1006
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	260	260	1	72164	2718
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	260	260	1	72164	5251

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedcu-00462	260	260	M. Permian							Yes			Cu	21408	Bolzano-Alto Adige Autonomous Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy	South Tyrol	Cox et al. (2003)		USGSOFR03_107

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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