Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Orne, Normandy, France

mindat Locality ID: 50971
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50971.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Orne, Normandy, France": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Alençon
Appenai-sous-Bellême
Condé-Sur-Sarthe
Domfront
Écouché
Flers
L'Aigle
La Courbe
La Ferrière-Béchet
La Lande-de-Goult
Saint-Hilaire-la-Gérard
Yvrandes

Latitude: 48°35'21"N
Longitude: 0°-1'-16"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.589166666667,-0.021111111111111

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.

Beryl	Calcite	Clay	Corundum	Cubanite	Feldspar	Fluorite	Iron	Mica	Molybdenite
None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel

Albite ()*	Bertrandite ()*	Beryl ()*	Chromite ()*	Cordierite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*	Isocubanite ()*
Mackinawite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*

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 Be C Ca Cr Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na Ni O Pb S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Beryl Calcite Clay Corundum Cubanite Feldspar Fluorite Iron Mica Molybdenite
None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel

20 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	54535	8803
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	2	54530,54535	606
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	3	54531,54535,54538	4286
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	54548	3902
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	54549	1008
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	54531	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	54553	24243
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	54548	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	54548	1089
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	1	54548	191
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	54548	451
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	54534	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	54531,54535	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2	54531,54535	2349
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	54548	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	54534,54550	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	54531,54532,54535,54549	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	54546	1711
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	54548	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	54548	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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