Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

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

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	Chalcopyrite	None	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

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:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite None Rocksalt Sphalerite Wurtzite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Anglesite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Greenockite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	69928	2734
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	69928	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	69928	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	69928	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	69928	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	69928	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	69928	24243
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	69928	717
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	69928	1066
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	69928	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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