Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Eighty-Five Mine (85 Mine; Superior Mine; Dundee Mine; Jim Crow Mine), Virginia District, Lordsburg, Lordsburg District, Pyramid Mts, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 33350
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-33350.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Eighty-Five Mine (85 Mine; Superior Mine; Dundee Mine; Jim Crow Mine), Virginia District, Lordsburg, Lordsburg District, Pyramid Mts, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 32°18'30"N
Longitude: 108°45'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.308333333333,-108.75833333333

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.

Andalusite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Galena ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Libethenite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pseudomalachite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mo O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mo O P Pb S Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Malachite Mica Molybdenite
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3846
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1689
Libethenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(PO₄)(OH)	234
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	17380
Pseudomalachite ()*	None	Cu₅(PO₄)₂(OH)₄	369
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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