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:
Monts-Dore Massif, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

mindat Locality ID: 50056
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50056.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Monts-Dore Massif, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Chastreix

Latitude: 45°31'37"N
Longitude: 2°46'23"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.526944444444,2.7730555555556

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	Calcite	Corundum	Feldspar	Mica	None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Spinel
Tridymite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Diopside ()*
Enstatite ()*	Fluoro-edenite ()*	Fluorophlogopite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sanidine ()*	Siderite ()*	Tridymite ()*	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: Al C Ca F Fe K Mg Na O Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Aragonite Calcite Corundum Feldspar Mica None Pyroxene Quartz Spinel
Tridymite Zircon

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	51740	8803
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	51739	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	51739	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	51739	27770
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	51740	4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	51740	944
Fluoro-edenite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂Mg₅(Si₇Al)O₂₂F₂	1	51740	27
Fluorophlogopite ()*	Mica	KMg₃(Si₃Al)O₁₀F₂	1	51740	47
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	51740	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	51740	14899
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	51739	61156
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	51740	598
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	51739	6417
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	51740	458
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	51740	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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