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:
Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile

mindat Locality ID: 191816
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-191816.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Gloria-Chinches Mine
La Culebra Mine
Manto Cobriza Mine
Nantoco (Nantoko)
San Pedro Mine

Latitude: 27°30'51"S
Longitude: 70°17'17"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -27.514166666667,-70.288055555556

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.

Atacamite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Digenite	Epidote	Feldspar
Malachite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Albite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Digenite ()*
Epidote ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Nantokite ()*	Paratacamite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 As C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Na O S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Cu H O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Atacamite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite Digenite Epidote Feldspar
Malachite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	4	36214,36215,36216,36219	8803
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	4	36214,36215,36216,36219	1036
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	4	36214,36215,36216,36219	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	36214,36215,36216,36219	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	5	36214,36215,36216,36218,36219	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	5	36214,36215,36216,36218,36219	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	36218	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	4	36214,36215,36216,36219	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	36218	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	4	36214,36215,36216,36219	1027
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	4	36214,36215,36216,36219	8173
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	36218	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	4	36214,36215,36216,36219	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	0		12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	4	36214,36215,36216,36219	5674
Nantokite ()*	Sphalerite	CuCl	1	36218	35
Paratacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃(Cu,Zn)Cl₂(OH)₆	1	36218	158
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	36214,36215,36216,36218,36219	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	36214,36215,36216,36218,36219	61156
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	36216	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	4	36214,36215,36216,36219	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060680	Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile	https://rruff.info/R060680
R060699	Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile	https://rruff.info/R060699
R130753	Manto Cobriza Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile	https://rruff.info/R130753
R080001	Manto Cobriza Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile	https://rruff.info/R080001

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