Mineral Evolution Database

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Coyame Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico

Oldest recorded age at locality: 135
Youngest recorded age at locality: 23

mindat Locality ID: 17466
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-17466.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Coyame Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Coyame
Cuchillo Parado
Las Plomosas

Latitude: 29°27'29"N
Longitude: 104°59'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 29.458055555556,-104.99138888889

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	Apatite	Calcite	Descloizite	Diaspore	None	Not in a structural group	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite

Acanthite ()*	Calcite ()*	Descloizite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Vanadinite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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 Ca Cl Fe H Mg Mo O Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Apatite Calcite Descloizite Diaspore None Not in a structural group Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite

13 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	33.9	23	1	81896	2793
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	33.9	23	2	81886,81888	27770
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	33.9	23	2	81886,81888	378
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	33.9	23	1	81886	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	33.9	23	1	81889	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	33.9	23	1	81887	7437
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	135	23	1	81884	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	33.9	23	1	81896	1066
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	33.9	23	1	81886	1107
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	33.9	23	4	81884,81892,81893,81896	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	33.9	23	4	81889,81891,81894,81896	21482
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	33.9	23	2	81886,81888	605
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	33.9	23	3	81886,81888,81889	1655

2 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
	sedcu-00519	135	135	L. Cretaceous										Cu	17466	Coyame Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico	Las Vigas	Cox et al. (2003)		USGSOFR03_107
	sedznpb-00315	33.9	23	Oligocene											18802	Plomosas Mine, Las Plomosas, Coyame Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico	Plomosas	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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