Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Dictator Mine (Dictator Group; Dictator And Covington; Oversite Group), Cuchillo Negro District, Sierra Cuchillo (Cuchillo Negro Mts), Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 49844
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-49844.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dictator Mine (Dictator Group; Dictator And Covington; Oversite Group), Cuchillo Negro District, Sierra Cuchillo (Cuchillo Negro Mts), Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 33°20'18"N
Longitude: 107°34'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.338333333333,-107.57833333333

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	Calcite	Descloizite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Phenakite	Scheelite

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: C Ca Cl Cu H Mn Mo O Pb Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Cl Cu H Mn Mo O Pb Si V Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Calcite Descloizite Malachite None Not in a structural group Phenakite Scheelite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Descloizite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Malachite ()*
Mottramite ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Vanadinite ()*	Willemite ()*
Wulfenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	378
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1066
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	12537
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	362
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1711
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2473
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	605
Willemite ()*	Phenakite	Zn₂SiO₄	303
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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