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Locality Name:
Cañar Province, Ecuador

mindat Locality ID: 131954
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-131954.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cañar Province, Ecuador": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Azogues Canton
Pilzhum Deposit

Latitude: 2°34'58"S
Longitude: 78°'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -2.5827777777778,-78

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.

Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Covellite	Enargite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite
Wurtzite

Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*
Enargite ()*	Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	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 As Ba Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Chalcopyrite Covellite Enargite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite
Wurtzite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	48970	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	48970	5516
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	48970	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	48970	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	48970	4165
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	48970	910
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	1	48970	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	48970	24243
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	1	48970	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	48970	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	48970	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	48970	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	48970	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	48970	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	48970	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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