Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Saas-Fee, Saas Valley, Zermatt - Saas Fee Area, Valais, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 131020
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-131020.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Saas-Fee, Saas Valley, Zermatt - Saas Fee Area, Valais, Switzerland": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Fee Glacier
Spielboden Area

Latitude: 46°4'25"N
Longitude: 7°53'48"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.073611111111,7.8966666666667

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.

Amphibole	Apatite	Brochantite	Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Epsomite
Feldspar	Garnet	Hexahydrite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Perovskite	Prehnite	Pyrite	Pyroxene
Serpentine	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stilbite	Titanite	Vesuvianite

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Andradite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chrysotile ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Diopside ()*
Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Grossular ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Morenosite ()*	Nickelhexahydrite ()*	Perovskite ()*	Piemontite ()*	Prehnite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stellerite ()*	Tenorite ()*	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 Cu F Fe H Mg Mn Na Ni O P S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Brochantite Calcite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Epsomite
Feldspar Garnet Hexahydrite Malachite None Not in a structural group Perovskite Prehnite Pyrite Pyroxene
Serpentine Sphalerite Spinel Stilbite Titanite Vesuvianite

26 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	115341	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	115341	8803
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	3	115340,115341,115342	1534
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	115340	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	115341,115345	27770
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	115341	951
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	4	115340,115341,115342,115345	1756
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	115341	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	3	115340,115341,115345	2970
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	4	115340,115341,115342,115345	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	115341,115345	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2	115340,115341	2740
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	5	115340,115341,115342,115344,115345	1544
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	115341	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	115345	12537
Morenosite ()*	Epsomite	Ni(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	115341	84
Nickelhexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Ni(SO₄)·6H₂O	1	115341	37
Perovskite ()*	Perovskite	CaTiO₃	1	115341	495
Piemontite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂(Al₂Mn³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	115341	260
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	115341	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	115341	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	115341	21482
Stellerite ()*	Stilbite	Ca₄(Si₂₈Al₈)O₇₂·28H₂O	1	115341	189
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	115345	1101
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	3	115340,115341,115345	4899
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	4	115340,115341,115342,115345	1395

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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