Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Murol, Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

mindat Locality ID: 195576
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-195576.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Murol, Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Boissières
Groire
Tennis Court Outcrop

Latitude: 45°34'40"N
Longitude: 2°57'19"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.577777777778,2.9552777777778

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.

Amphibole	Apatite	Corundum	Feldspar	Garnet	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pseudobrookite	Pyroxene
Quartz	Sapphirine	Spinel	Titanite	Zircon

Andradite ()*	Augite ()*	Corundum ()*	Diopside ()*	Enstatite ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Fluoro-edenite ()*	Fluorophlogopite ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Pseudobrookite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhönite ()*	Sanidine ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Titanite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 K Mg Na O P Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Corundum Feldspar Garnet Mica None Not in a structural group Pseudobrookite Pyroxene
Quartz Sapphirine Spinel Titanite Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	51599	1534
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	51598	2060
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	51598	1797
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	51599	4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	2	51599,51600	944
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	51599	2740
Fluoro-edenite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂Mg₅(Si₇Al)O₂₂F₂	1	51599	27
Fluorophlogopite ()*	Mica	KMg₃(Si₃Al)O₁₀F₂	1	51599	47
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	51598,51599,51600	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	51598,51599,51600	14899
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	2	51599,51600	164
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	51598	61156
Rhönite ()*	Sapphirine	Ca₄[Mg₈Fe³⁺₂Ti₂]O₄[Si₆Al₆O₃₆]	2	51599,51600	47
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	51599	598
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	51598	1516
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	51598	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	51598	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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