Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Leucate, Aude, Occitanie, France

mindat Locality ID: 252501
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-252501.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Leucate, Aude, Occitanie, France": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Grau De Leucate
Leucate-Plage
Sidrières Island
South Leucate Peninsula

Latitude: 42°53'42"N
Longitude: 3°1'47"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.895,3.0297222222222

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.

Andalusite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Coronadite	Corundum	Epidote	Mica
None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Staurolite	Titanite	Tourmaline	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Andalusite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*
Coronadite ()*	Corundum ()*	Dravite ()*	Epidote ()*	Hematite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Schorl ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spinel ()*	Staurolite ()*	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 B Ba C Ca Fe H K Mg Mn Na O Pb S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Coronadite Corundum Epidote Mica
None Not in a structural group Quartz Rutile Spinel Staurolite Titanite Tourmaline Zircon

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	55113	2162
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	55113	1310
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	55116	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	55113	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	55113,55116,55117,55118,55119	27770
Coronadite ()*	Coronadite	Pb(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	1	55119	227
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	55113	1797
Dravite ()*	Tourmaline	NaMg₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	55113	648
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	55113	8173
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	55113,55116,55119	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	55113	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	55113	14899
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	55113	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	55113	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	55113	5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	55113	2705
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	55113	1516
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	55113	1934
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	1	55113	978
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	55113	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	55113	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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