Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Cosalá, Cosalá Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico

Oldest recorded age at locality: 59.7
Youngest recorded age at locality: 57.3

mindat Locality ID: 14601
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14601.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cosalá, Cosalá Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Canas Mine
Candelaria Mine
Clarina Mine
Cobre Mine
Cosalá Mine
Culebra Mine
Dura Mine
Nuestra Señora Mine (Nuestra Mine)
Refugio Mine

Latitude: 24°24'29"N
Longitude: 106°41'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 24.408055555556,-106.69166666667

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	Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Cobaltite	Copper	None	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz
Sphalerite	Stibnite

Acanthite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bornite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cobaltite ()*	Cosalite ()*	Polybasite ()*
Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tenorite ()*

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 Bi C Co Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Cobaltite Copper None Polybasite Pyrite Quartz
Sphalerite Stibnite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	59.7	57.3	2	84109,84115	2793
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			1	84116	9052
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃			1	84108	1935
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	59.7	57.3	2	84111,84115	5516
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	59.7	57.3	1	84115	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	59.7	57.3	1	84115	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			3	84110,84113,84116	27198
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	59.7	57.3	2	84112,84115	966
Cosalite ()*	None	Pb₂Bi₂S₅	59.7	57.3	2	84112,84115	344
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	59.7	57.3	1	84115	716
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃			1	84114	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	59.7	57.3	3	84113,84115,84116	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			1	84112	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	59.7	57.3	1	84115	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	59.7	57.3	2	84113,84115	21482
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	59.7	57.3	2	84113,84115	1101

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedznpb-00314	59.7	57.3	58.5±1.2											17132	Nuestra Señora Mine (Nuestra Mine), Cosalá, Cosalá Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico	Nuestra Señora	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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