Mineral Evolution Database
Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.
Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org



The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Faraglioni Di Levante (Grotte Dei Faraglioni; Grotte Del Faraglione; "Grotte De Faraglione"), Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy


mindat Locality ID: 271156
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-271156.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Faraglioni Di Levante (Grotte Dei Faraglioni; Grotte Del Faraglione; "Grotte De Faraglione"), Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Faraglione Nico (Faraglione Piccolo; Faragghiune Nicu)
Faraglione Ranni (Faraglione Grande; Faragghiune Ranni)

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg N Na O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AlumAmorphousAragoniteAubertiteBlöditeChalcanthiteCopiapiteCoquimbiteGypsumHalotrichite
MelanteriteMetavoltineMillosevichiteNoneNot in a structural groupPicromeriteRhabdophaneSulphurTamarugiteVoltaite

35 IMA Minerals at location:
Alum-(K)  (*)Alum-(Na)  (*)Aluminocoquimbite  (*)Alunogen  (*)Amarillite  (*)
Aragonite  (*)Aubertite  (*)Bassanite  (*)Blödite  (*)Boussingaultite  (*)
Chalcanthite  (*)Copiapite  (*)Coquimbite  (*)Gypsum  (*)Halotrichite  (*)
Hydrobasaluminite  (*)Kalinite  (*)Krausite  (*)Magnesioaubertite  (*)Melanterite  (*)
Mendozite  (*)Metavoltine  (*)Millosevichite  (*)Opal  (*)Pertlikite  (*)
Pickeringite  (*)Salammoniac  (*)Sassolite  (*)Sideronatrite  (*)Sulphur  (*)
Tamarugite  (*)Thénardite  (*)Voltaite  (*)Yavapaiite  (*)Zaherite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Alum-(K)  (*)AlumKAl(SO4)2·12H2O271811,7181292
Alum-(Na)  (*)AlumNaAl(SO4)2·12H2O17181112
Aluminocoquimbite  (*)CoquimbiteAl2Fe2(SO4)6(H2O)12·9H2O1718115
Alunogen  (*)Not in a structural groupAl2(SO4)3(H2O)12·5H2O371810,71811,71812272
Amarillite  (*)TamarugiteNaFe3+(SO4)2·6H2O1718126
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)271810,718113250
Aubertite  (*)AubertiteCu2+Al(SO4)2Cl·14H2O17181113
Bassanite  (*)RhabdophaneCa(SO4)·0.5H2O17181182
Blödite  (*)BlöditeNa2Mg(SO4)2·4H2O171812130
Boussingaultite  (*)Picromerite(NH4)2Mg(SO4)2·6H2O17181030
Chalcanthite  (*)ChalcanthiteCu(SO4)·5H2O271810,71811925
Copiapite  (*)CopiapiteFe2+Fe3+4(SO4)6(OH)2·20H2O271810,71811382
Coquimbite  (*)CoquimbiteAlFe3(SO4)6(H2O)12·6H2O271810,71811136
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O271810,718116890
Halotrichite  (*)HalotrichiteFe2+Al2(SO4)4·22H2O271811,71812409
Hydrobasaluminite  (*)NoneAl4(SO4)(OH)10·15H2O17181112
Kalinite  (*)NoneKAl(SO4)2·11H2O17181154
Krausite  (*)NoneKFe3+(SO4)2·H2O17181121
Magnesioaubertite  (*)AubertiteMgAl(SO4)2Cl·14H2O271811,718124
Melanterite  (*)MelanteriteFe(SO4)·7H2O271810,71811915
Mendozite  (*)NoneNaAl(SO4)2·11H2O17181128
Metavoltine  (*)MetavoltineK2Na6Fe2+Fe3+6O2(SO4)12·18H2O271811,7181278
Millosevichite  (*)MillosevichiteAl2(SO4)3271810,7181120
Opal  (*)AmorphousSiO2·nH2O271810,718112994
Pertlikite  (*)VoltaiteK2(Fe2+,Mg)2(Mg,Fe3+)4Fe3+2Al(SO4)12·18H2O1718114
Pickeringite  (*)HalotrichiteMgAl2(SO4)4·22H2O371810,71811,71812265
Salammoniac  (*)None(NH4)Cl271810,71811105
Sassolite  (*)NoneB(OH)317181031
Sideronatrite  (*)NoneNa2Fe3+(SO4)2(OH)·3H2O17181073
Sulphur  (*)SulphurS1718102045
Tamarugite  (*)TamarugiteNaAl(SO4)2·6H2O371810,71811,7181287
Thénardite  (*)NoneNa2(SO4)171811299
Voltaite  (*)VoltaiteK2Fe2+5Fe3+3Al(SO4)12·18H2O271810,71811111
Yavapaiite  (*)NoneKFe3+(SO4)21718118
Zaherite  (*)NoneAl12(SO4)5(OH)26·20H2O1718113


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
SampleSource LocalityReference URL
R060344Faraglioni Di Levante (Grotte Dei Faraglioni; Grotte Del Faraglione; "Grotte De Faraglione"), Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italyhttps://rruff.info/R060344
R070601Grotta Dell'Allume, Faraglione Nico (Faraglione Piccolo; Faragghiune Nicu), Faraglioni Di Levante (Grotte Dei Faraglioni; Grotte Del Faraglione; "Grotte De Faraglione"), Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italyhttps://rruff.info/R070601

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...

Other copyright data...