Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Sierra Grande Mine, Lake Valley District, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 22941
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-22941.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sierra Grande Mine, Lake Valley District, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Bridal Chamber Stope (Old Bridal Chamber Mine)
Carolina Mine
Thirty Stope
Twenty-five Cut

Latitude: 32°43'15"N
Longitude: 107°34'17"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.720833333333,-107.57138888889

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Copper	Descloizite	None	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Wurtzite

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 C Cl H I Mn Mo O Pb V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Cl H I O Pb V Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Copper Descloizite None Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Wurtzite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Cerussite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Descloizite ()*	Iodargyrite ()*	Manganite ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	Silver ()*	Vanadinite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	247134	4979
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	247134	1382
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	0		378
Iodargyrite ()*	Wurtzite	AgI	0		180
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	1	247134	770
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	2	247134,247135	3106
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	247135	5186
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	0		605
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	247135	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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