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Locality Name:
Saint-Etienne-de-Tinée, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France

mindat Locality ID: 55816
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-55816.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Saint-Etienne-de-Tinée, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Auron
Bousiéyas
Chaspourné
Claï
Duminière
Le Rivet
Pont-Haut
Rabuons Valley

Latitude: 44°16'2"N
Longitude: 6°55'16"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.267222222222,6.9211111111111

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.

Allophane	Alunite	Aragonite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Autunite	Bournonite	Brochantite	Brookite	Calcite
Chalcanthite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Cubanite	Diaspore	Digenite	Gypsum	Lepidocrocite
Malachite	Marcasite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Serpentine
Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tourmaline	Ullmannite	Wurtzite

Allophane ()*	Anatase ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bismuth ()*
Bismuthinite ()*	Boulangerite ()*	Bournonite ()*	Breithauptite ()*	Brochantite ()*
Brookite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Copper ()*	Cosalite ()*
Covellite ()*	Crandallite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Cuprobismutite ()*	Digenite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*	Mackinawite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Schorl ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Ullmannite ()*	Uranocircite-II ()*	Zeunerite ()*

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: Ag Al As Au B Ba Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mo Na Ni O P Pb S Sb Si Ti U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Alunite Aragonite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Autunite Bournonite Brochantite Brookite Calcite
Chalcanthite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Cubanite Diaspore Digenite Gypsum Lepidocrocite
Malachite Marcasite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Serpentine
Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Tourmaline Ullmannite Wurtzite

49 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Allophane ()*	Allophane	Al₂O₃(SiO₂)_1.3-2.0·2.5-3.0H₂O	1	56739	470
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	56739	2162
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	4	56738,56739,56740,56742	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	56737	5509
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	2	56739,56742	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	2	56739,56741	1935
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	1	56741	843
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1	56741	1089
Breithauptite ()*	Nickeline	NiSb	2	56739,56742	175
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	3	56737,56741,56742	1633
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	56739	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	56739	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	56738,56739	4979
Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcanthite	Cu(SO₄)·5H₂O	1	56739	925
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	56741	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	6	56736,56737,56738,56739,56741,56742	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	56737,56739	3531
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	56739	951
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	56737	3846
Cosalite ()*	None	Pb₂Bi₂S₅	2	56739,56741	344
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	6	56736,56737,56738,56739,56741,56742	4165
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	1	56739	310
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	56742	802
Cuprobismutite ()*	None	Cu₈AgBi₁₃S₂₄	1	56739	43
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	56741	1027
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	56737,56738,56739,56742	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	56737,56739	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	56739	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	56740	2812
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	56742	6890
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	56737	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	56737	1066
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	56743	1507
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	56741	581
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	56742	451
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	56737	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	5	56737,56738,56739,56741,56742	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	2	56737,56741	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	56739	5800
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	1	56739	767
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6	56736,56737,56738,56739,56741,56742	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	4	56737,56738,56739,56742	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	56737,56738,56739,56740,56741,56742	61156
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	56740	2705
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	56737	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	56737,56738,56739,56741	21482
Ullmannite ()*	Ullmannite	NiSbS	1	56742	293
Uranocircite-II ()*	None	Ba(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10H₂O	1	56736	89
Zeunerite ()*	Autunite	Cu(UO₂)₂(AsO₄)₂·12H₂O	1	56736	185

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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