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:
Biancavilla, Etna Volcanic Complex, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 280779
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-280779.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Biancavilla, Etna Volcanic Complex, Catania Province, Sicily, Italy": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Mt Calvario

Latitude: 37°38'27"N
Longitude: 14°52'33"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.640833333333,14.875833333333

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	Apatite	Corundum	Feldspar	Fluorite	Mica	None	Pseudobrookite	Pyroxene	Tridymite
Warwickite	Zircon

Aegirine-augite ()*	Albite ()*	Augite ()*	Diopside ()*	Enstatite ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Fluoro-edenite ()*	Fluoro-richterite ()*	Fluorophlogopite ()*
Hematite ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*	Sanidine ()*	Tridymite ()*	Yuanfuliite ()*
Zircon ()*

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 K Mg Na O P Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Corundum Feldspar Fluorite Mica None Pseudobrookite Pyroxene Tridymite
Warwickite Zircon

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine-augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Fe³⁺,Mg,Fe²⁺)Si₂O₆	1	71754	286
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	71754	8803
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	71754	2060
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	71754	4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	71754	944
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	71754	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	71754	9617
Fluoro-edenite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂Mg₅(Si₇Al)O₂₂F₂	1	71754	27
Fluoro-richterite ()*	Amphibole	Na(NaCa)Mg₅Si₈O₂₂F₂	1	71754	24
Fluorophlogopite ()*	Mica	KMg₃(Si₃Al)O₁₀F₂	1	71754	47
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	71754	14640
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	1	71754	164
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	71754	598
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	71754	458
Yuanfuliite ()*	Warwickite	Mg(Fe³⁺,Al)O(BO₃)	1	71754	4
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	71754	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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