Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Unimin (Tinaja Del Oso) Deposit, Magdalena Municipality, Sonora, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 266577
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-266577.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Unimin (Tinaja Del Oso) Deposit, Magdalena Municipality, Sonora, Mexico": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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	Baryte	Calcite	Fluorite	Gypsum	None	Orpiment	Pyrite	Zircon

Cahnite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Colemanite ()*	Fluorellestadite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Howlite ()*	Orpiment ()*	Pyrite ()*
Realgar ()*	Strontianite ()*	Ulexite ()*

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: As B C Ca F Fe H Na O S Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As B C Ca F Fe H Na O S Si Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Fluorite Gypsum None Orpiment Pyrite Zircon

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Cahnite ()*	Zircon	Ca₂B(AsO₄)(OH)₄	13
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1252
Colemanite ()*	None	CaB₃O₄(OH)₃·H₂O	144
Fluorellestadite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(SiO₄)_1.5(SO₄)_1.5F	33
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9617
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Howlite ()*	None	Ca₂SiB₅O₉(OH)₅	36
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃	511
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	712
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	589
Ulexite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₆(OH)₆·5H₂O	160

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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