Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Tête Noire, Le Trient Valley, Valais, Switzerland

mindat Locality ID: 5818
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-5818.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tête Noire, Le Trient Valley, Valais, Switzerland": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 46°4'12"N
Longitude: 6°58'22"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.07,6.9727777777778

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.

Aeschynite	Brookite	Clay	Corundum	Feldspar	Mica	Monazite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz
Scheelite	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 Ce F Fe H K Na Nb O P Pb Si Th Ti W Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Ce F Fe H K Ln Na Nb O P Pb Si Th Ti W Y Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aeschynite Brookite Clay Corundum Feldspar Mica Monazite None Not in a structural group Quartz
Scheelite Zircon

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Aeschynite-(Y) ()*	Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Brookite ()*	Hematite ()*
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Stolzite ()*	Synchysite-(Ce) ()*
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Aeschynite-(Y) ()*	Aeschynite	(Y,Ln,Ca,Th)(Ti,Nb)₂(O,OH)₆	141
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2162
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	700
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	14640
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Stolzite ()*	Scheelite	Pb(WO₄)	156
Synchysite-(Ce) ()*	None	CaCe(CO₃)₂F	232
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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