Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Ferriere, Aveto Valley, Piacenza Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 195961
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-195961.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ferriere, Aveto Valley, Piacenza Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Boschi-Torrio Road
Casale Brugneto
Castagnola
Cattaragna
Ciapa Liscia
Lisore
Rocca Marsa
Ruffinati
Salsominore
Santo Stefano D' Aveto

Latitude: 44°36'19"N
Longitude: 9°25'35"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.605277777778,9.4263888888889

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.

Brookite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Natrolite	None
Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc	Titanite

Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Babingtonite ()*	Brookite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Epidote ()*	Hematite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Prehnite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*
Talc ()*	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 C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Na O S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Brookite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Natrolite None
Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Talc Titanite

17 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)	2	69017,69019	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	3	69014,69020,69021	2162
Babingtonite ()*	Rhodonite	Ca₂Fe²⁺Fe³⁺Si₅O₁₄(OH)	1	69019	161
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	2	69020,69021	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	7	69013,69016,69017,69019,69020,69021,69023	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	69017,69019,69020	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	69017,69019	8173
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	69017,69019,69020	14640
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	2	69017,69019	1236
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	69017,69019,69023	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	69017,69019	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	9	69013,69015,69016,69017,69019,69020,69021,69023,69024	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	69020	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	69023	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	2	69017,69019	1934
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2	69017,69019	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	69017,69019	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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