Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Ruitor Massif, Tarentaise Valley, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

mindat Locality ID: 193658
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-193658.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ruitor Massif, Tarentaise Valley, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Sainte-Foy

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.

Brewsterite	Brookite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar
Fluorite	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Titanite

Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Brewsterite-Ba ()*	Brookite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Kainosite-(Y) ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
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 Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Brewsterite Brookite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Feldspar
Fluorite Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Titanite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	52108	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	52108	2162
Brewsterite-Ba ()*	Brewsterite	Ba(Al₂Si₆)O₁₆·5H₂O	1	52108	9
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	52108	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	52108	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	52108	27198
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	52108	1756
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	52108	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	52108	9617
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	52108	5433
Kainosite-(Y) ()*	None	Ca₂Y₂(SiO₃)₄(CO₃)·H₂O	1	52108	99
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	52108	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	52108	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	52108	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	52108	61156
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	52108	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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