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Locality Name:Las Cuevas Mine, Almadén, Almadén District, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, SpainOldest recorded age at locality: 429.7Youngest recorded age at locality: 358.2mindat Locality ID: 133000mindat URL:http://www.mindat.org/loc-133000.htmlTectonic Settings: Total number of sublocalities beneath "Las Cuevas Mine, Almadén, Almadén District, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain": 0Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0Latitude: 0°0'0"NLongitude: 0°0'0"EDecimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0
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.
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: AlBaCCaFeHHgKMgNaOSSiZnElements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba C Ca Fe H Hg K Mg Na O S Si Zn Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Mercury mineralization at Almaden is hosted by Paleozoic sedimentary and mafic volcanic rocks that unconformably overlie Pre-Ordovician basement rock in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula
Lower Silurian was onset of mineralization, continuing mineralization until Upper Devonian. W/ 2 main episodes of mineralization "one in early Silurian time and another ending in early Carboniferous time. This suggests, in turn, that mercury was deposited both by the alkali basalt volcanic rocks and by later Hercynian metamorphism or magmatism. The early event remains poorly constrained, although it probably took place shortly after deposition of the ore-hosting Lower Silurian Criadero quartzite"