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Locality Name:
Val Bona Quarry (Valbona Quarry), Miseglia Quarrying Basin (Miseglia-Fantiscritti Quarrying Basin; Fantiscritti Quarrying Basin), Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy


mindat Locality ID: 56000
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-56000.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Val Bona Quarry (Valbona Quarry), Miseglia Quarrying Basin (Miseglia-Fantiscritti Quarrying Basin; Fantiscritti Quarrying Basin), Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 44°5'39"N
Longitude: 10°7'37"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.094166666667,10.126944444444
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: As Bi C Ca Cd Cl Cu Fe Mg Ni O Pb S Sb V Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Bi C Ca Cd Cl Cu Fe Mg Ni O Pb S Sb V Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ApatiteCalciteChalcopyriteEnargiteGermaniteMeneghiniteNonePyriteRocksaltSphalerite
StanniteTetrahedriteWurtziteZinkenite

20 IMA Minerals at location:
Aikinite  (*)Calcite  (*)Cannizzarite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Colusite  (*)
Cosalite  (*)Dolomite  (*)Enargite  (*)Famatinite  (*)Galena  (*)
Greenockite  (*)Moëloite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Smythite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Sulvanite  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)Vanadinite  (*)Wurtzite  (*)Zinkenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Aikinite  (*)MeneghiniteCuPbBiS30315
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)027770
Cannizzarite  (*)NonePb8Bi10S23041
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2027198
Colusite  (*)Sphalerite GermaniteCu13VAs3S160110
Cosalite  (*)NonePb2Bi2S50344
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)209895
Enargite  (*)Enargite WurtziteCu3AsS40910
Famatinite  (*)Stannite SphaleriteCu3SbS40163
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS024243
Greenockite  (*)WurtziteCdS0717
Moëloite  (*)NonePb6Sb6S14(S)308
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2039462
Smythite  (*)None(Fe,Ni)3+xS4 (x ≈ 0-0.3)077
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS021482
Sulvanite  (*)NoneCu3VS4048
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S1301803
Vanadinite  (*)ApatitePb5(VO4)3Cl0605
Wurtzite  (*)WurtziteZnS0372
Zinkenite  (*)ZinkenitePb9Sb22S420228


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