Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Sambuco, Stura Valley, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 254223
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-254223.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sambuco, Stura Valley, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Bandia-Gardetta Plateau
Moriglione
Rio Ciardola
Sambuco Gramaccioliite Site (Sambuco “historical” Site)

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brookite	Calcite	Clay	Corundum	Crichtonite	Feldspar	Fluorite
Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Zircon

Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Brookite ()*
Calcite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Gramaccioliite-(Y) ()*	Hematite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Senaite ()*
Synchysite-(Ce) ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*

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 Ce Cr F Fe H K Mn Na O P Pb S Si Sr Ti U V Y Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brookite Calcite Clay Corundum Crichtonite Feldspar Fluorite
Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rutile 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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	70526,70528	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2	70526,70528	2162
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	70525	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	70527	11547
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	70528	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	70525,70528	27770
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	70528	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	70527	9617
Gramaccioliite-(Y) ()*	Crichtonite	(Pb,Sr)(Y,Mn)Fe³⁺₂(Ti,Fe³⁺)₁₈O₃₈	1	70528	9
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	70528	14640
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	70528	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	70528	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	70525,70526,70528	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	70528	5614
Senaite ()*	Crichtonite	Pb(Mn,Y,U)(Fe,Zn)₂(Ti,Fe,Cr,V)₁₈(O,OH)₃₈	1	70528	28
Synchysite-(Ce) ()*	None	CaCe(CO₃)₂F	1	70528	232
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	70528	939

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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