Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Valle De Carranza, Vizcaya, Basque Country, Spain

mindat Locality ID: 132534
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-132534.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Valle De Carranza, Vizcaya, Basque Country, Spain": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Agustina Mine (Augustina Mine)
Anselma Mine
Esperanza Mine
Matienzo
Pozalagua Cave

Latitude: 43°14'49"N
Longitude: 3°22'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.246944444444,-3.3797222222222

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.

Aragonite	Arcanite	Baryte	Calcite	Fluorite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Arcanite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Greenockite ()*
Gwihabaite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Niter ()*
Nitratine ()*	Nitrocalcite ()*	Nitromagnesite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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: Ba C Ca Cd F Fe H K Mg N Na O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arcanite Baryte Calcite Fluorite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Wurtzite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	108896	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	108900	3250
Arcanite ()*	Arcanite	K₂(SO₄)	1	108900	30
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	108896	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	108896,108899,108900	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	108897,108899	4979
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	108896	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	108896,108899	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	108896,108899	24243
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	108899	717
Gwihabaite ()*	None	(NH₄)(NO₃)	1	108900	10
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	108897	1689
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	108900	341
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	108895	1066
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	1	108900	181
Nitratine ()*	Calcite	Na(NO₃)	1	108900	91
Nitrocalcite ()*	None	Ca(NO₃)₂·4H₂O	1	108900	46
Nitromagnesite ()*	None	Mg(NO₃)₂·6H₂O	1	108900	12
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	108896	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	108896	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2	108895,108899	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	108896,108899	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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