Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Favara, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 291671
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-291671.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Favara, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Lucia Mine

Latitude: 37°16'19"N
Longitude: 13°40'30"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.271944444444,13.675

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Epsomite	Gypsum	None	Sulphur

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: C Ca H Mg O S Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca H Mg O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Epsomite Gypsum None Sulphur

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Epsomite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Melanophlogite ()*	Sulphur ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	71695	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	71695	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	71695	1252
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	0		484
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	0		6890
Melanophlogite ()*	None	C₂H₁₇O₅·Si₄₆O₉₂	1	71695	38
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	71695	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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