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Locality Name:
L'Argentiere-la-Bessée, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France

mindat Locality ID: 260025
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-260025.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "L'Argentiere-la-Bessée, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Baume Noire Vein
Blachière Vein
Champ Des Ans Vein
La Folie Vein
Le Fournel Vein
Les Têtes Vein

Latitude: 44°47'30"N
Longitude: 6°32'18"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.791666666667,6.5383333333333

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	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Boulangerite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Freieslebenite ()*	Galena ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Malachite ()*
Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Zincite ()*

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 Ba C Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	56860	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	56860	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	5	56856,56857,56858,56860,56861	11547
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	1	56860	843
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	56860	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	56860	27198
Freieslebenite ()*	None	AgPbSbS₃	1	56860	105
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5	56856,56857,56859,56860,56861	24243
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	2	56859,56860	1066
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	56860	12537
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	56860	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	56860	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	56859	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	56859	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	56859,56860	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	56860	5317
Zincite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnO	1	56860	98

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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