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:
Papachacra, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina

mindat Locality ID: 240159
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-240159.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Papachacra, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Don Enrique Mine
El Aragonés Mine
Isabelita Mine
La Juanita Mine
La Pilar Mine
Papachacra Mts
Papachacra Pegmatites
San Pedro Mine

Latitude: 28°55'59"S
Longitude: 65°30'58"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -28.933055555556,-65.516111111111

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.

Alunite	Amorphous	Amphibole	Brookite	Calcite	Cancrinite-sodalite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper
Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Mica	Monazite	None	Not in a structural group	Phenakite
Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sodalite	Spinel	Titanite	Topaz	Tourmaline
Zircon

Aegirine ()*	Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Bertrandite ()*	Brookite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chamosite ()*	Danalite ()*	Epidote ()*
Ferri-fluoro-leakeite ()*	Florencite-(Ce) ()*	Fluorite ()*	Foitite ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Morinite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Phenakite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Scheelite ()*	Schorl ()*	Siderite ()*
Silver ()*	Titanite ()*	Topaz ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*	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: Ag Al B Be C Ca Ce F Fe H K Li Mg Na O P Pb S Si Sn Ti W Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Ce F Fe H Li Mg Na O P Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Amphibole Brookite Calcite Cancrinite-sodalite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Copper
Corundum Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Mica Monazite None Not in a structural group Phenakite
Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sodalite Spinel Titanite Topaz Tourmaline
Zircon

35 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	0		1022
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	2134	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	2134	2162
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	1	2134	606
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	2134	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	2134	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	2134	5171
Chamosite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Fe²⁺,Mg,Al,Fe³⁺)₆(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH,O)₈	1	2134	577
Danalite ()*	Cancrinite-sodalite Sodalite	Be₃Fe²⁺₄(SiO₄)₃S	1	2134	58
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		8173
Ferri-fluoro-leakeite ()*	Amphibole	NaNa₂(Mg₂Fe³⁺₂Li)Si₈O₂₂F₂	0		4
Florencite-(Ce) ()*	Alunite	CeAl₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₆	2	2134,2136	73
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	2133,2134	9617
Foitite ()*	Tourmaline	(Fe²⁺₂Al)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	2134	75
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	2131	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	2134	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	2134	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	0		5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	2134	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2	2134,2136	4924
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	0		945
Morinite ()*	None	NaCa₂Al₂(PO₄)₂(OH)F₄·2H₂O	1	2134	22
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	2134	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	0		2994
Phenakite ()*	Phenakite	Be₂(SiO₄)	1	2134	326
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	9	2133,2134,2136,2137,2138,2139,2140,2141,2142	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	2134	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	5	2127,2128,2129,2130,2134	4894
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	2134	2705
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	2134	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	2131	5186
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	0		4899
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	4	2134,2136,2138,2140	1476
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	2134	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	2134	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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