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Locality Name:
Grotta Dell'Allume, Faraglione Nico (Faraglione Piccolo; Faragghiune Nicu), Faraglioni Di Levante (Grotte Dei Faraglioni; Grotte Del Faraglione; "Grotte De Faraglione"), Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy


mindat Locality ID: 6928
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-6928.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Grotta Dell'Allume, Faraglione Nico (Faraglione Piccolo; Faragghiune Nicu), Faraglioni Di Levante (Grotte Dei Faraglioni; Grotte Del Faraglione; "Grotte De Faraglione"), Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Cl Cu Fe H K Mg N Na O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg N Na O S Si 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AlumAmorphousAragoniteAubertiteChalcanthiteCopiapiteCoquimbiteGypsumHalotrichiteMelanterite
MetavoltineMillosevichiteNoneNot in a structural groupRhabdophaneTamarugiteVoltaite

29 IMA Minerals at location:
Alum-(K)  (*)Alum-(Na)  (*)Aluminocoquimbite  (*)Alunogen  (*)Aragonite  (*)
Aubertite  (*)Bassanite  (*)Chalcanthite  (*)Copiapite  (*)Coquimbite  (*)
Gypsum  (*)Halotrichite  (*)Hydrobasaluminite  (*)Kalinite  (*)Krausite  (*)
Magnesioaubertite  (*)Melanterite  (*)Mendozite  (*)Metavoltine  (*)Millosevichite  (*)
Opal  (*)Pertlikite  (*)Pickeringite  (*)Salammoniac  (*)Tamarugite  (*)
Thénardite  (*)Voltaite  (*)Yavapaiite  (*)Zaherite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Alum-(K)  (*)AlumKAl(SO4)2·12H2O092
Alum-(Na)  (*)AlumNaAl(SO4)2·12H2O012
Aluminocoquimbite  (*)CoquimbiteAl2Fe2(SO4)6(H2O)12·9H2O05
Alunogen  (*)Not in a structural groupAl2(SO4)3(H2O)12·5H2O0272
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)03250
Aubertite  (*)AubertiteCu2+Al(SO4)2Cl·14H2O013
Bassanite  (*)RhabdophaneCa(SO4)·0.5H2O082
Chalcanthite  (*)ChalcanthiteCu(SO4)·5H2O0925
Copiapite  (*)CopiapiteFe2+Fe3+4(SO4)6(OH)2·20H2O0382
Coquimbite  (*)CoquimbiteAlFe3(SO4)6(H2O)12·6H2O0136
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O06890
Halotrichite  (*)HalotrichiteFe2+Al2(SO4)4·22H2O0409
Hydrobasaluminite  (*)NoneAl4(SO4)(OH)10·15H2O012
Kalinite  (*)NoneKAl(SO4)2·11H2O054
Krausite  (*)NoneKFe3+(SO4)2·H2O021
Magnesioaubertite  (*)AubertiteMgAl(SO4)2Cl·14H2O04
Melanterite  (*)MelanteriteFe(SO4)·7H2O0915
Mendozite  (*)NoneNaAl(SO4)2·11H2O028
Metavoltine  (*)MetavoltineK2Na6Fe2+Fe3+6O2(SO4)12·18H2O078
Millosevichite  (*)MillosevichiteAl2(SO4)3020
Opal  (*)AmorphousSiO2·nH2O02994
Pertlikite  (*)VoltaiteK2(Fe2+,Mg)2(Mg,Fe3+)4Fe3+2Al(SO4)12·18H2O04
Pickeringite  (*)HalotrichiteMgAl2(SO4)4·22H2O0265
Salammoniac  (*)None(NH4)Cl0105
Tamarugite  (*)TamarugiteNaAl(SO4)2·6H2O087
Thénardite  (*)NoneNa2(SO4)0299
Voltaite  (*)VoltaiteK2Fe2+5Fe3+3Al(SO4)12·18H2O0111
Yavapaiite  (*)NoneKFe3+(SO4)208
Zaherite  (*)NoneAl12(SO4)5(OH)26·20H2O03


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
SampleSource LocalityReference URL
R070601Grotta Dell'Allume, Faraglione Nico (Faraglione Piccolo; Faragghiune Nicu), Faraglioni Di Levante (Grotte Dei Faraglioni; Grotte Del Faraglione; "Grotte De Faraglione"), Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italyhttps://rruff.info/R070601

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