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:
Gouffre De Bousserailles, Valtournenche, Aosta Valley, Italy

mindat Locality ID: 72735
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-72735.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gouffre De Bousserailles, Valtournenche, Aosta Valley, 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

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.

Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Epsomite	Garnet	Hexahydrite	None	Prehnite
Pyroxene	Vesuvianite

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 H Mg Na Ni O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca F Fe H Mg Na Ni O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Epsomite Garnet Hexahydrite None Prehnite
Pyroxene Vesuvianite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Andradite ()*	Calcite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*
Grossular ()*	Morenosite ()*	Nickelhexahydrite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Retgersite ()*
Vesuvianite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1534
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1756
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8173
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1544
Morenosite ()*	Epsomite	Ni(SO₄)·7H₂O	84
Nickelhexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Ni(SO₄)·6H₂O	37
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1898
Retgersite ()*	None	Ni(SO₄)·6H₂O	55
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1395

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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