Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Escalhão, Figueira De Castelo Rodrigo, Guarda, Portugal

mindat Locality ID: 262064
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-262064.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Escalhão, Figueira De Castelo Rodrigo, Guarda, Portugal": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Quinta Fonte Surra Mine
Riba De Alva Mine

Latitude: 41°0'35"N
Longitude: 6°56'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.009722222222,-6.9352777777778

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.

Amphibole	Axinite	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Mica	Milarite
None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Scheelite

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Armenite ()*	Axinite-(Fe) ()*
Calcite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*

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 F Fe H K Mg Na O Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Axinite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Mica Milarite
None Pyroxene Quartz Scheelite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	99231	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	99231	8803
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1	99231	1036
Armenite ()*	Milarite	BaCa₂(Al₆Si₉)O₃₀·2H₂O	1	99231	23
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Fe²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	1	99231	260
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	99231	27770
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	99231	1025
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	99231	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	99231	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	99231	9617
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	99231	2273
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	99230,99231	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	2	99230,99231	4894

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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