Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Aranzazú, Concepción Del Oro Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 20174
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-20174.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Aranzazú, Concepción Del Oro Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Aranzazú Mine
Cerro Prieto Mine
Cobre Mine
Galemes Mine
Nieva Mine
Pando Mine
San Antonio Mine
San Carlos Mine
San Eligio Mine
San Juan Mine
San Pedro Mine
Santa Elegio Mine
Socavón Mine

Latitude: 24°37'0"N
Longitude: 101°27'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 24.616666666667,-101.45

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.

Acanthite	Allophane	Apatite	Aragonite	Atacamite	Bournonite	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay
Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Bournonite ()*
Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Hedenbergite ()*	Hematite ()*	Litharge ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Massicot ()*	Muscovite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Proustite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*
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: Ag Al As C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Na O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Cu Fe H K O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Apatite Aragonite Atacamite Bournonite Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay
Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Diaspore Epidote Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	84730	2793
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	84730	544
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	84730,84741	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	84730	5516
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1	84730	1089
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	84737	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	84730,84732	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	84730	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	0		5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	84736,84742	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	84735,84739	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	84730	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	84730	2970
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	84730	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	84730,84741	7437
Hedenbergite ()*	Pyroxene	CaFe²⁺Si₂O₆	1	84736	741
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	84736	14640
Litharge ()*	None	PbO	4	84733,84734,84738,84740	139
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	84731	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	84730,84741	12537
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	3	84733,84734,84738	202
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	0		17380
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	84736	471
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	1	84730	733
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	84730	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	84733	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	84730,84732,84736	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	84730	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	1	84730	586
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	84732	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	84732	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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