Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 30755
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-30755.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Bellecombe
Ponte Delle Capre (Pont Des Chèvres)

Latitude: 45°43'59"N
Longitude: 7°38'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.733055555556,7.6494444444444

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	Aragonite	Artinite	Chlorite	Chloritoid	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet
Humite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Prehnite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Serpentine
Spinel	Talc	Titanite	Vesuvianite	Wollastonite	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Alumovesuvianite ()*	Andradite ()*
Antigorite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Artinite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Clinohumite ()*
Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Forsterite ()*	Glaucophane ()*	Grossular ()*
Hydromagnesite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Magnesiochloritoid ()*	Magnetite ()*	Omphacite ()*
Paragonite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Talc ()*
Titanite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Wollastonite ()*	Zircon ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 C Ca F Fe H Mg Na O Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Fe H Mg Na O Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Aragonite Artinite Chlorite Chloritoid Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar Garnet
Humite Mica None Not in a structural group Olivine Prehnite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Serpentine
Spinel Talc Titanite Vesuvianite Wollastonite Zircon

30 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	68334	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	0		8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		2353
Alumovesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	Ca₁₉Al(Al₁₀Mg₂)Si₁₈O₆₉(OH)₉	1	68334	2
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	68335	1534
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	0		708
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	68335	3250
Artinite ()*	Artinite	Mg₂(CO₃)(OH)₂·3H₂O	1	68335	75
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	68334	1756
Clinohumite ()*	Humite	Mg₉(SiO₄)₄F₂	1	68335	236
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	2	68334,68335	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	68334	8173
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	0		1188
Glaucophane ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Mg₃Al₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	0		286
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2	68334,68335	1544
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	68335	341
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	0		1507
Magnesiochloritoid ()*	Chloritoid	MgAl₂O(SiO₄)(OH)₂	0		12
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	0		14899
Omphacite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe,Al)Si₂O₆	0		229
Paragonite ()*	Mica Clay	NaAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	0		247
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	68334,68335	1898
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	0		5614
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	0		3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	68334,68335	4899
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	2	68334,68335	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	68334	1247
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	68334	5251
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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