Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

mindat Locality ID: 144371
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-144371.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Besse-en-Chandesse
Chambon-sur-Lac
Murol
Pavin Lake
Saint-Victor-la-Rivière
Serre-Bas

Latitude: 45°32'35"N
Longitude: 2°53'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.543055555556,2.8997222222222

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.

Amorphous	Amphibole	Apatite	Beryl	Calcite	Corundum	Feldspar	Garnet	Mica	None
Not in a structural group	Pseudobrookite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Sapphirine	Spinel	Titanite	Vivianite	Zircon

Andradite ()*	Augite ()*	Cordierite ()*	Corundum ()*	Diopside ()*
Enstatite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluoro-edenite ()*	Fluorophlogopite ()*	Hematite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Opal ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhönite ()*
Sanidine ()*	Siderite ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Titanite ()*	Vivianite ()*
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 F Fe H K Mg Na O P Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Amphibole Apatite Beryl Calcite Corundum Feldspar Garnet Mica None
Not in a structural group Pseudobrookite Pyroxene Quartz Sapphirine Spinel Titanite Vivianite Zircon

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	51599	1534
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	4	51592,51595,51598,51603	2060
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	51604	1008
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	2	51595,51598	1797
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	2	51592,51599	4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	2	51599,51600	944
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	51599	2740
Fluoro-edenite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂Mg₅(Si₇Al)O₂₂F₂	1	51599	27
Fluorophlogopite ()*	Mica	KMg₃(Si₃Al)O₁₀F₂	1	51599	47
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	6	51592,51595,51598,51599,51600,51603	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	6	51592,51595,51598,51599,51600,51603	14899
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	51601	2994
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	2	51599,51600	164
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	51595,51598,51603	61156
Rhönite ()*	Sapphirine	Ca₄[Mg₈Fe³⁺₂Ti₂]O₄[Si₆Al₆O₃₆]	2	51599,51600	47
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	3	51592,51595,51599	598
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	51601	6417
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	51598	1516
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4	51592,51595,51598,51603	4899
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	51601	636
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	4	51592,51595,51598,51603	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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