Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Monte Prosa, Prevat Valley, Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 134413
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-134413.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Monte Prosa, Prevat Valley, Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 46°33'43"N
Longitude: 8°34'53"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.561944444444,8.5813888888889

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.

Beryl	Brookite	Corundum	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	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: Be Fe H Mg Na O P Sc Si Ti Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Be Fe H Mg Na O P Sc Si Ti Y

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Beryl Brookite Corundum None Not in a structural group Quartz Zircon

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Anatase ()*	Bazzite ()*	Brookite ()*	Hematite ()*	Quartz ()*
Xenotime-(Y) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2162
Bazzite ()*	Beryl	Be₃(Sc,Fe³⁺,Mg)₂Si₆O₁₈·Na_0.32·nH₂O	51
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	700
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	14640
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	939

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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