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:
Saint-Babel, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

mindat Locality ID: 19132
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19132.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Saint-Babel, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Four-la-Brouque Ravine
Prudeux

Latitude: 45°35'48"N
Longitude: 3°18'1"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.596666666667,3.3002777777778

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	Analcime	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Feldspar	Gismondine	Natrolite	None	Serpentine
Spinel

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 Fe H K Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Baryte Calcite Clay Feldspar Gismondine Natrolite None Serpentine
Spinel

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Amesite ()*	Analcime ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Gismondine ()*
Magnetite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Opal ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Sanidine ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Amesite ()*	Clay Serpentine	Mg₂Al(AlSiO₅)(OH)₄	1	51689	74
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	51689	1627
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	51688	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	51689	27770
Gismondine ()*	Gismondine	Ca₂(Si₄Al₄)O₁₆·8H₂O	1	51689	128
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	51689	14899
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	51689	1236
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	51689	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	51688	2349
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	51689	598

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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