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Locality Name:
Asientos, Asientos Municipality, Aguascalientes, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 14256
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14256.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Asientos, Asientos Municipality, Aguascalientes, Mexico": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Cinco Señores Mine
Cobre Mine
Cristo Mine
Descubridora Mine
Merced Mine
Mercedes Mine
No Pensada Mine
Orito Mine
Rosario Mine
San Bartolo Mine
San Francisco Mine
Santa Elena Mine
Santa Francisca Mine
Santo Cristo Mine

Latitude: 22°14'0"N
Longitude: 102°5'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 22.233333333333,-102.09972222222

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	Aragonite	Chalcopyrite	Diaspore	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Litharge ()*	Malachite ()*
Massicot ()*	Miargyrite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	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 C Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Aragonite Chalcopyrite Diaspore Malachite None Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Rocksalt
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

19 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	5	81351,81354,81358,81361,81364	2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	6	81351,81353,81354,81356,81358,81363	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	81352	5516
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	81358	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	81356,81358,81361	27198
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	3	81357,81360,81362	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	81359,81363,81364	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	81358	7437
Litharge ()*	None	PbO	1	81358	139
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	81358	12537
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	1	81358	202
Miargyrite ()*	None	AgSbS₂	3	81354,81363,81364	300
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	1	81363	716
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	81363	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	81351,81354,81355,81362,81363	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	81354,81361,81364	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	3	81354,81363,81364	586
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	2	81355,81362	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	81355,81362	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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