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:
Alpe Marco Inferiore, Rio Vasca, Craveggia, Vigezzo Valley, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 274102
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-274102.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Alpe Marco Inferiore, Rio Vasca, Craveggia, Vigezzo Valley, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

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.

Clay	Feldspar	Garnet	Hydrotalcite	Millerite	Mordenite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite
Pyrite	Quartz	Stilbite	Talc	Thomsonite	Titanite	Wollastonite

Albite ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Grossular ()*	Laumontite ()*	Millerite ()*
Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Reevesite ()*	Scolecite ()*
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Talc ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Titanite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

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 C Ca Fe H Mg Na Ni O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Fe H Mg Na Ni O S Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Feldspar Garnet Hydrotalcite Millerite Mordenite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Prehnite
Pyrite Quartz Stilbite Talc Thomsonite Titanite Wollastonite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	138
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1544
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1271
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	1066
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Reevesite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Ni₆Fe³⁺₂(CO₃)(OH)₁₆·4H₂O	48
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	390
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Stilbite	NaCa₄(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·28H₂O	268
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	3337
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	452
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4899
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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