Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cristallina Valley, Medel Valley, Grisons, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 29363
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29363.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cristallina Valley, Medel Valley, Grisons, Switzerland": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Casatscha Valley
Cristallina Alp
La Siara Dadens Valley
Piz A Spescha
Piz Starlera
Stgira Valley

Latitude: 46°34'22"N
Longitude: 8°51'44"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.572777777778,8.8622222222222

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.

Alunite	Amorphous	Apatite	Axinite	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar	Milarite	Monazite	None
Not in a structural group	Quartz	Scheelite

Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Bavenite ()*
Beudantite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Milarite ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*
Opal ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Synchysite-(Ce) ()*

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 As B Be C Ca Ce Cl F Fe H K Na O P Pb S Si Ti W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: H O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Apatite Axinite Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar Milarite Monazite None
Not in a structural group Quartz Scheelite

15 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)	3	113924,113926,113927	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	113924	2162
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	113929	1588
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Fe²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	1	113929	260
Bavenite ()*	None	Ca₄Be_2+xAl_2-xSi₉O_26-x(OH)_2+x (x = 0 to 1)	1	113926	255
Beudantite ()*	Alunite	PbFe³⁺₃(AsO₄)(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	113925	413
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	113931	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2	113926,113927	2740
Milarite ()*	Milarite	KCa₂(Be₂AlSi₁₂)O₃₀·H₂O	2	113928,113930	156
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	113924	945
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	0		2994
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	113925	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	113925,113928,113930,113931	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	113927	4894
Synchysite-(Ce) ()*	None	CaCe(CO₃)₂F	1	113925	232

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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