Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Varano De' Melegari, Ceno Valley, Taro Valley, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 158512
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-158512.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Varano De' Melegari, Ceno Valley, Taro Valley, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Costa Del Cerro
I Camilloni
Rio Dordia
Rio Grassala

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	Calcite	Clay	Corundum	Diaspore	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Lepidocrocite
None	Palygorskite

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 Ba C Ca F Fe H K Mg Mn Na O P S Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Corundum Diaspore Gypsum Kaolinite Lepidocrocite
None Palygorskite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*
Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*
Palygorskite ()*	Todorokite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	68978,68980	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	68979,68980,68981	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	68978,68979,68980,68981	27770
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	68980	9895
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	3	68978,68980,68981	2740
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	3	68978,68979,68980	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	68978,68980	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	68978,68980,68981	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	68978,68980	5591
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	68980	581
Palygorskite ()*	Palygorskite Clay	(Mg,Al)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)·4H₂O	1	68979	306
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	1	68980	433

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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