Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Zacatecas, Zacatecas Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 20185
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-20185.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Zacatecas, Zacatecas Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 25

Number of Child Localities: 25
Child Localities:
Albarradon Mine
Asturiana Mine
Bote Mine
Cantera Mine
Capilla Mine
Carniceria Mine
Estrella Mine
Guadalupe Mine
La Purísima Mine
Luz Mine
Mala Noche Mine
No Tiene Mine
Plata Mine
Prodigio Mine
Quebradillas Mine
Refugio Mine
Saltillito Mine
San Agustín Mine
San Fernando Mine
San Francisco Mine
San Juan Mine
San Luis Del Oro Mine
San Salvador Mine
San Vicente Mine
Zaragoza Mine

Latitude: 22°47'0"N
Longitude: 102°35'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 22.783333333333,-102.58333333333

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	Bournonite	Calcite	Copper	Diaspore	Fluorite	Malachite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group
Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Wurtzite

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bournonite ()*	Bromargyrite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chlorargyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Iodargyrite ()*	Litharge ()*	Malachite ()*
Massicot ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stephanite ()*	Stibnite ()*

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 As Au Br C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H I Mo O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cu Fe Pb S Sb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Bournonite Calcite Copper Diaspore Fluorite Malachite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group
Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stibnite Wurtzite

27 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	84987	2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	84987	5509
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	0		1089
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	2	84994,85008	227
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	84987	27770
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	84999	1382
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	84987	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	4	84986,84987,84989,85007	2970
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	84986,84988	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	84987	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	84987	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3	84987,84991,85006	30554
Iodargyrite ()*	Wurtzite	AgI	1	84999	180
Litharge ()*	None	PbO	1	85003	139
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	84987	12537
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	1	85003	202
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	85001	5800
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	3	84987,84990,84992	716
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	3	84997,84998,85000	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	5	84987,84988,84990,84999,85000	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	84986,84987	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	4	84986,84987,84993,84999	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	3	84985,85004,85007	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	10	84986,84987,84994,84996,84997,85000,85002,85003,85005,85009	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	2	84986,84995	586
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	84999	3418

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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