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Locality Name:
Cortenova, Valsassina, Lecco Province, Lombardy, Italy


mindat Locality ID: 30162
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-30162.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cortenova, Valsassina, Lecco Province, Lombardy, Italy": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Rossiga Valley

Latitude: 46°0'24"N
Longitude: 9°24'37"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.006666666667,9.4102777777778

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: Ba C Ca Cd Cu Fe H O Pb S Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteNoneRocksaltSphaleriteWurtzite

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Anglesite  (*)Aragonite  (*)Baryte  (*)Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)
Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)Greenockite  (*)Hydrozincite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite  (*)BarytePb(SO4)1699282734
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)1699283250
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)16992811547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)16992827770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)1699284979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS216992827198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS16992824243
Greenockite  (*)WurtziteCdS169928717
Hydrozincite  (*)NoneZn5(CO3)2(OH)61699281066
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS16992821482



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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