Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Novaggio, Malcantone, Ticino, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 13709
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-13709.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Novaggio, Malcantone, Ticino, Switzerland": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Ponte Aranno

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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	Aragonite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Linarite
Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Minium	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz
Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Anatase ()*	Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*
Baryte ()*	Bindheimite ()*	Bournonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Greenockite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Hydrozincite ()*	Linarite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Minium ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rosasite ()*
Rutile ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Todorokite ()*	Vanadinite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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: Ag Al Ba C Ca Cd Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na O Pb S Sb Si Sr Ti V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Linarite
Malachite Marcasite Mica Minium Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz
Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

33 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	114559	2162
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	114559	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	114559	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	114559	3250
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	114559	919
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	114559	11547
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	1	114559	450
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1	114559	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	114559	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	114559	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	114559	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	114559	24243
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	114559	717
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	114559	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	114559	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	114559	1066
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	114559	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	114559	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	114559	5674
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄	1	114559	247
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	114559	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	114559	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	114559	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	114559	61156
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	114559	454
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	114559	5614
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	114559	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	114559	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	114559	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	114559	5317
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	1	114559	433
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	1	114559	605
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	114559	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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