Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Challand-Saint-Anselme, Aosta Valley, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 146129
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146129.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Challand-Saint-Anselme, Aosta Valley, Italy": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Arbaz
Bechaz Mine
Mae Mine
Orbeillaz Mine
Sizan Quarry
Trivera Mine

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.

Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Malachite	Mica	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Magnesite ()*
Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 As Au C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Malachite Mica Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	2	68311,68314	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	68309	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	68309,68310	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	68309,68310,68311	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	68310	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	68309,68310	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	68312,68314	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	68310	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3	68309,68310,68312	30554
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	1	68313	1487
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	68309,68310	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	68311,68313,68314	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	68309,68310	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	68310	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	68309,68310,68311,68312,68313,68314	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	68310	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	68310	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...