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:
Mazapil, Mazapil Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 10489
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-10489.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mazapil, Mazapil Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 23
Child Localities:
Animas Mine
Bohemia Mine
Cajon Mine
Cinabrio Mine
Cruz Mine
Dulces Nombres Mine
Jesús María Mine
Mazapil Meteorite
Nieva Mine
Nueva Mine
Pedernal Mine
San Angel Mine
San Carlos Mine
San Eligio Mine
San José Nevada Mine
San Martín Mine
San Pedro Mine
San Pedro Ocampo Mine
Santa Inés Mine
Santa Isabel Mine
Socavón De Las Turquoise Mine
Todos Santos Mine
Vibora Mine

Latitude: 24°38'7"N
Longitude: 101°33'20"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 24.635277777778,-101.55555555556

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.

Allophane	Aragonite	Arseniosiderite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Fluorite	Gypsum	Iron
Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Spinel	Sulphur	Turquoise

Anglesite ()*	Arseniosiderite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Cuprite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Graphite ()*	Iron ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Massicot ()*	Mercury ()*	Pharmacolite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Quartz ()*
Schreibersite ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sulphur ()*	Taenite ()*
Troilite ()*	Turquoise ()*	Wüstite ()*

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 Cr Cu F Fe H Hg Ni O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Aragonite Arseniosiderite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Fluorite Gypsum Iron
Malachite None Not in a structural group Polybasite Quartz Rocksalt Spinel Sulphur Turquoise

28 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	5	84810,84811,84820,84827,84831	2734
Arseniosiderite ()*	Arseniosiderite	Ca₂Fe³⁺₃O₂(AsO₄)₃·3H₂O	1	84815	194
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	8	84809,84811,84813,84815,84817,84819,84821,84825	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	84815,84821	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	84815	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	84814,84821	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	84815	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	84815,84821	3531
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	2	84812,84830	2600
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2	84815,84821	2970
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	84823	9617
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	84816	2812
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	84816	1089
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	84816	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	84817,84821	12537
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	1	84825	202
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	2	84812,84830	397
Pharmacolite ()*	Gypsum	Ca(AsO₃OH)·2H₂O	1	84815	105
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	1	84824	716
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	84815	61156
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	1	84816	374
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	84818	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	84822	2473
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	84826	2045
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	84816	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	84816	1044
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	3	84828,84829,84830	484
Wüstite ()*	Rocksalt	FeO	1	84816	74

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R040035	Mazapil, Mazapil Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico	https://rruff.info/R040035

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