Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, France

mindat Locality ID: 155612
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-155612.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, France": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Port-Louis

Latitude: 47°41'35"N
Longitude: 3°20'43"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.693055555556,-3.3452777777778

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	Andalusite	Brookite	Chloritoid	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	None	Not in a structural group	Rutile
Spinel	Staurolite	Titanite	Tourmaline	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Anatase ()*	Andalusite ()*	Brookite ()*	Chloritoid ()*
Corundum ()*	Epidote ()*	Glaucophane ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kyanite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Rutile ()*	Schorl ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spinel ()*
Staurolite ()*	Titanite ()*	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 B Ca Fe H Mg Na O Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Andalusite Brookite Chloritoid Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote None Not in a structural group Rutile
Spinel Staurolite Titanite Tourmaline Zircon

18 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	53364	3419
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	53364	2162
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	53364	1310
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	53364	700
Chloritoid ()*	Chloritoid	Fe²⁺Al₂O(SiO₄)(OH)₂	1	53364	376
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	53364	1797
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	53364	8173
Glaucophane ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Mg₃Al₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	53364	286
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	53364	5433
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	53364	1507
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	53364	14899
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	53364	5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	53364	2705
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	53364	1516
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	53364	1934
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	1	53364	978
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	53364	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	53364	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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