Mineral Evolution Database

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

mindat Locality ID: 2315
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-2315.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Concepción Del Oro, Concepción Del Oro Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Animas Mine
Aranzazú Mine (Cobre Mine; El Cobre; Arroyos Azules Mine)
Bonanza Mine
Cabrestante Mine
Cata Arroyo Mine
Cobre Mine
Jesús María Mine
Maranjera Mine
Perla Mine
Quebradilla Mine
Refugio Mine
Santa Eduwigis Mine
Socabon Mine
Tajo Mine
Trinidad Mine

Latitude: 24°37'53"N
Longitude: 101°25'2"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 24.631388888889,-101.41722222222

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.

Adelite	Allophane	Andalusite	Arsenopyrite	Bournonite	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chalcostibite	Copper
Corundum	Diaspore	Garnet	Malachite	Mixite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Scheelite	Sphalerite	Stilbite	Tetrahedrite	Tobermorite	Turquoise

Andradite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Bournonite ()*
Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Conichalcite ()*
Copper ()*	Emplectite ()*	Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Grossular ()*	Hematite ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Malachite ()*	Mixite ()*
Olivenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scorodite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stellerite ()*	Stolzite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tenorite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Tobermorite ()*	Turquoise ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cu Fe H O P Pb S Sb Si W Zn

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Adelite Allophane Andalusite Arsenopyrite Bournonite Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chalcostibite Copper
Corundum Diaspore Garnet Malachite Mixite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Scheelite Sphalerite Stilbite Tetrahedrite Tobermorite Turquoise

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	84748	1534
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2	84748,84751	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	3	84747,84748,84751	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	84748	5516
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1	84748	1089
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	0		1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	84748,84751	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	84747,84751	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	84751	3531
Conichalcite ()*	Adelite	CaCu(AsO₄)(OH)	1	84750	363
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	84751	3846
Emplectite ()*	Chalcostibite	CuBiS₂	1	84747	246
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	1	84748	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	84749	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	3	84748,84750,84751	7437
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2	84751,84754	1544
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	84751	14640
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	1	84748	784
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	5	84747,84748,84750,84751,84759	12537
Mixite ()*	Mixite	Cu₆Bi(AsO₄)₃(OH)₆·3H₂O	1	84748	168
Olivenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(AsO₄)(OH)	1	84751	492
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	84748,84749,84750,84751	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	84747,84748,84749,84750,84751	61156
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	2	84749,84751	1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	11	84746,84748,84749,84752,84753,84754,84755,84756,84757,84759,84760	21482
Stellerite ()*	Stilbite	Ca₄(Si₂₈Al₈)O₇₂·28H₂O	0		189
Stolzite ()*	Scheelite	Pb(WO₄)	1	84749	156
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	2	84747,84751	1803
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	84751	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	84748	5317
Tobermorite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₇(H₂O)₂·(Ca·3H₂O)	0		114
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	84748	484

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050310	Concepción Del Oro, Concepción Del Oro Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico	https://rruff.info/R050310
R050438	Concepción Del Oro, Concepción Del Oro Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico	https://rruff.info/R050438

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