Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Plestin-les-Grèves, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France

mindat Locality ID: 297955
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-297955.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Plestin-les-Grèves, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Belle-Roche Quarry
Grève Des Curés
Kervigné
Porz Mellec
Saint-Efflam

Latitude: 48°40'28"N
Longitude: 3°36'4"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.674444444444,-3.6011111111111

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	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Cubanite
Digenite	Epidote	Malachite	Marcasite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stannite	Wurtzite	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Anatase ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bismuth ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Covellite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Digenite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Hessite ()*	Idaite ()*	Mackinawite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Scorodite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stannite ()*	Tellurium ()*	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: Ag Al As Au Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mo Ni O Pb S Si Sn Te Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Arsenic Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite Cubanite
Digenite Epidote Malachite Marcasite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Stannite Wurtzite Zircon

33 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	52505	3419
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	52502	2162
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2	52502,52506	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	52504	5509
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	52502	1966
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	52505	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	52505	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	52502	5171
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	52505	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	52502,52505	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	52502	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	52502	802
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	52505	1027
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	52503,52505	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	52502	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	52505	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	52503,52505	14640
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	1	52505	804
Idaite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃FeS₄	1	52505	142
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	52502	451
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	52505	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	52504,52505	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	52502	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	52502	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	52502	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	52502	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	52503,52505	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	52502	5614
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1	52506	1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	52502	21482
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄	1	52502	668
Tellurium ()*	None	Te	1	52505	190
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	52502	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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