Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Enna Province, Sicily, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 31330
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-31330.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Enna Province, Sicily, Italy": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Assoro (Asaro)
Barrafranca
Calascibetta
Enna (Castrogiovanni)
Grottacalda Mine
Leonforte
Pietraperzia
Valguarnera Caropepe
Villarosa

Latitude: 37°29'27"N
Longitude: 14°16'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.490833333333,14.282777777778

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	Blödite	Calcite	Carnallite	Gypsum	Kieserite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Rocksalt	Sulphur

Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bischofite ()*	Blödite ()*
Calcite ()*	Carnallite ()*	Celestine ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*
Kainite ()*	Kaliborite ()*	Kieserite ()*	Leonite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Sylvite ()*

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: B Ba C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Na O S Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Blödite Calcite Carnallite Gypsum Kieserite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Rocksalt Sulphur

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	71771	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	71774,71775	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	71774,71775	11547
Bischofite ()*	None	MgCl₂·6H₂O	1	71776	42
Blödite ()*	Blödite	Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	1	71771	130
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	71770,71774,71775	27770
Carnallite ()*	Carnallite	KMgCl₃·6H₂O	1	71776	132
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	3	71768,71774,71775	1252
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	7	71770,71772,71774,71775,71776,71777,71780	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	6	71770,71771,71772,71776,71779,71784	1398
Kainite ()*	None	KMg(SO₄)Cl·2.75H₂O	2	71776,71784	50
Kaliborite ()*	None	KHMg₂B₁₂O₁₆(OH)₁₀·4H₂O	1	71771	8
Kieserite ()*	Kieserite	Mg(SO₄)·H₂O	2	71771,71776	80
Leonite ()*	None	K₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	1	71776	24
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	71772	39462
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	10	71768,71769,71770,71772,71774,71775,71778,71779,71780,71782	2045
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	2	71771,71776	275

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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