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:
Biasca, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 191376
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-191376.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Biasca, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Bodio
Miregn

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.

Beryl	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Fluorite	Mordenite	None	Titanite

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 Ca F Fe H Mg O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Fe H O Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Beryl Clinozoisite Epidote Fluorite Mordenite None Titanite

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Cordierite ()*	Epidote ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Titanite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	114416	1008
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		8173
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	0		138
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	114415	9617
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	0		4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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