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Locality Name:
La Grave, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France

mindat Locality ID: 245133
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-245133.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "La Grave, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
La Meije Torrent
La Meijette
Le Chazelet Mine
Le Grand Clot Mine
Les Freaux
Rif De La Girose Ravine
Rif De Muretouse Ravine
Rif Galan Ravine
Trois Evêchés Peak

Latitude: 45°2'44"N
Longitude: 6°16'42"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.045555555556,6.2783333333333

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.

Aragonite	Arsenic	Baryte	Brookite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Covellite
Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Rutile	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Titanite

Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Brookite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cookeite ()*	Covellite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Freieslebenite ()*	Galena ()*	Magnesite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Plattnerite ()*
Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	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: Ag Al Ba Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H Li Mg Mo Na O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenic Baryte Brookite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Covellite
Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Rutile Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite Titanite

29 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)	4	56873,56880,56881,56882	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2	56873,56879	2162
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	56875,56877,56878	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	56874	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	56874	1935
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	56873	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	56875,56877,56878,56882	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4	56875,56876,56877,56878	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	56877,56878	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	56874,56875,56877,56878	27198
Cookeite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Al,Li)₃Al₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₈	1	56875	181
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	56877,56878	4165
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	56881	8173
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	1	56874	345
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	56875	9617
Freieslebenite ()*	None	AgPbSbS₃	1	56875	105
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	56875,56877,56878	24243
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	1	56883	1487
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	3	56874,56877,56878	5800
Plattnerite ()*	Rutile	PbO₂	2	56877,56878	158
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	56875	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	56874,56875,56877,56878	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2	56877,56878	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	9	56873,56874,56875,56877,56878,56879,56881,56882,56883	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	56880	5614
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	56875	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	56874,56875,56877,56878	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	3	56875,56877,56878	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	56881	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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