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Locality Name:
Cerro Turqui, Tomás Frías Province, Potosí, Bolivia


mindat Locality ID: 156424
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-156424.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cerro Turqui, Tomás Frías Province, Potosí, Bolivia": 26
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Cayara
Chinapuri Placer (Veneros Chinapuri)
Conchitas
Cuchujara Placer
Esperanza Placers (Veneros Esperanza)
Galia Itapalluni
Huaqui Huata
Humaña Mine
Kellumayu
La Suerte Mine
Lupijara Mine
Pacapaca Mine
Paco Grande Mine
Pupusiri Mine
San José Placer
San Pedro Mine
Santa Fé Mine

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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: Al As Ba Bi C Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Sn Ti Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenicArsenopyriteBaryteBismutiteCalciteChalcopyriteClayCorundumKaoliniteNone
PyriteQuartzRocksaltRutileSphaleriteSpinelStibnite

17 IMA Minerals at location:
Antimony  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Baryte  (*)Bismuthinite  (*)Bismutite  (*)
Cassiterite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)Hematite  (*)Kaolinite  (*)
Magnetite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Rutile  (*)Siderite  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)Stibnite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Antimony  (*)ArsenicSb126674363
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS226664,266729052
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)226664,2666611547
Bismuthinite  (*)StibniteBi2S3226664,266721935
Bismutite  (*)BismutiteBi2O2(CO3)126664716
Cassiterite  (*)RutileSnO21226652,26656,26658,26659,26660,26661,26664,26666,26667,26671,26672,266735171
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2326664,26666,2667227198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS226663,2666624243
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3326661,26664,2667314640
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)41266745591
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4326659,26667,2667314899
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2526658,26663,26664,26666,2667239462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2826652,26656,26658,26660,26661,26663,26664,2667361156
Rutile  (*)RutileTiO21266645614
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)1266646417
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS226664,2666621482
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S31266743418


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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