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:
Scopello, Sesia Valley, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 190263
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-190263.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Scopello, Sesia Valley, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Barbina Valley
Sella Bassa Mine
Valbarbina 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.

Chalcopyrite	Corundum	Melonite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Pyrite

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 Bi Cu Fe Mo Ni O Pd Pt S Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Corundum Melonite Molybdenite Nickeline None Pentlandite Pyrite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Corundum ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Melonite ()*	Merenskyite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Moncheite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Sperrylite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	71238	27198
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	71237	1797
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	71238	451
Melonite ()*	Melonite	NiTe₂	1	71238	207
Merenskyite ()*	Melonite	PdTe₂	1	71238	155
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	71238	5800
Moncheite ()*	Melonite	Pt(Te,Bi)₂	1	71238	133
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	2	71238,71239	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	71238	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	71238	9056
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	1	71238	337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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