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Locality Name:
Piacenza Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 29169
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29169.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Piacenza Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy": 61
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 38

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Arda Valley
Aveto Valley
Chero Valley
Lugagnano Val D’Arda
Nure Valley
Tidone Valley
Trebbia Valley

Latitude: 44°36'44"N
Longitude: 9°33'49"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.612222222222,9.5636111111111

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.

Analcime	Aragonite	Baryte	Brookite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corrensite	Corundum
Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Gadolinite	Gypsum	Hydrotalcite	Malachite	Marcasite	Millerite	Natrolite
None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Rutile	Serpentine	Smectite-vermiculite
Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc	Titanite

Albite ()*	Aliettite ()*	Analcime ()*	Anatase ()*	Antigorite ()*
Aragonite ()*	Azurite ()*	Babingtonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Brookite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Datolite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Geikielite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hematite ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*	Jamborite ()*	Lizardite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Millerite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Prehnite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyroaurite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Saponite ()*
Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*	Talc ()*	Titanite ()*
Vermiculite ()*	Witherite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Co Cu Fe H Mg Na Ni O Pb S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Baryte Brookite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corrensite Corundum
Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Gadolinite Gypsum Hydrotalcite Malachite Marcasite Millerite Natrolite
None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt Rutile Serpentine Smectite-vermiculite
Sphalerite Spinel Talc Titanite

42 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	69017,69019	8803
Aliettite ()*	Corrensite Clay	Ca_0.2Mg₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·4H₂O	1	69038	7
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	69056	1627
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	9	69014,69020,69021,69034,69039,69051,69053,69058,69064	2162
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	69055	708
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	4	69053,69054,69055,69056	3250
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	69040	5509
Babingtonite ()*	Rhodonite	Ca₂Fe²⁺Fe³⁺Si₅O₁₄(OH)	1	69019	161
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	9	69009,69010,69031,69045,69047,69048,69050,69058,69060	11547
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	7	69020,69021,69051,69053,69058,69060,69064	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	28	69008,69010,69013,69016,69017,69019,69020,69021,69023,69025,69029,69034,69036,69037,69040,69043,69045,69047,69048,69049,69050,69051,69053,69055,69056,69058,69060,69064	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	9	69017,69019,69020,69034,69035,69036,69058,69060,69064	27198
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	3	69038,69055,69056	951
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	1	69056	498
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	5	69010,69034,69055,69056,69060	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3	69017,69019,69036	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	69058	24243
Geikielite ()*	Corundum	MgTiO₃	1	69055	70
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	69035	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	7	69010,69028,69045,69047,69048,69060,69063	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	69017,69019,69020	14640
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	69056	341
Jamborite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Ni²⁺_1-xCo³⁺_x(OH)_2-x(SO₄)_x·nH₂O [x ≤ 1/3 n; ≤ (1-x)]	4	69034,69056,69058,69060	32
Lizardite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	3	69055,69056,69062	359
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	4	69035,69040,69055,69056	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	69040	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	4	69031,69060,69063,69066	5674
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	4	69034,69056,69058,69060	1066
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	2	69017,69019	1236
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	4	69017,69019,69023,69056	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	15	69008,69017,69019,69031,69034,69035,69036,69047,69048,69058,69060,69063,69064,69065,69066	39462
Pyroaurite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Mg₆Fe³⁺₂(CO₃)(OH)₁₆·4H₂O	1	69056	89
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	22	69010,69013,69015,69016,69017,69019,69020,69021,69023,69024,69025,69034,69037,69039,69040,69047,69048,69050,69053,69058,69060,69064	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	69020	5614
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	69038	301
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	3	69010,69034,69037	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	69023,69034,69058,69060	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	2	69017,69019	1934
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	6	69017,69019,69036,69038,69058,69060	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	69017,69019	4899
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	1	69038	652
Witherite ()*	Aragonite	Ba(CO₃)	1	69050	251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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