Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Py, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France

mindat Locality ID: 264170
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-264170.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Py, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Font De Sant Pau
Rotja River Quarry
Tonnet Valley

Latitude: 42°30'16"N
Longitude: 2°22'17"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.504444444444,2.3713888888889

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	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Garnet	Mica	None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Scheelite
Spinel	Staurolite	Titanite	Tourmaline	Vesuvianite	Wollastonite

Almandine ()*	Andalusite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dravite ()*
Epidote ()*	Grossular ()*	Hercynite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*
Scheelite ()*	Schorl ()*	Staurolite ()*	Titanite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*
Wollastonite ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 Ca F Fe H K Mg Na O Si Ti W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al B Ca Fe H Mg Na O Si W

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Garnet Mica None Pyroxene Quartz Scheelite
Spinel Staurolite Titanite Tourmaline Vesuvianite Wollastonite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		2353
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	0		1310
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	56098	1025
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	2	56097,56099	4135
Dravite ()*	Tourmaline	NaMg₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	0		648
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	56097	8173
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	3	56097,56098,56099	1544
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	0		407
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	56099	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	56099	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	0		4894
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	56099	2705
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	0		978
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	56098	4899
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1	56099	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	56099	1247
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	56099	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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