Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico

Oldest recorded age at locality: 991
Youngest recorded age at locality: 5.3

mindat Locality ID: 18645
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-18645.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco)

Latitude: 18°18'0"N
Longitude: 99°20'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 18.3,-99.349722222222

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.

Aragonite	Calcite	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Stibnite	Sulphur

Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cervantite ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Gypsum ()*	Kermesite ()*	Livingstonite ()*	Mercury ()*	Pyrite ()*
Stibiconite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Sulphur ()*	Valentinite ()*

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: C Ca Fe H Hg O S Sb

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Gypsum None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrochlore Stibnite Sulphur

14 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
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	36.5	5.3	1	82908	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	36.5	5.3	1	82908	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	36.5	5.3	3	82908,82911,82912	27770
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	36.5	5.3	2	82908,82912	352
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	991	5.3	4	82907,82908,82909,82913	2600
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	36.5	5.3	1	82908	6890
Kermesite ()*	None	Sb₂OS₂	36.5	5.3	5	82908,82910,82911,82912,82914	230
Livingstonite ()*	None	HgSb₄S₆(S)₂	991	5.3	5	82906,82907,82908,82909,82913	24
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	991	5.3	3	82907,82908,82909	397
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	36.5	5.3	1	82908	39462
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	36.5	5.3	1	82908	446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	36.5	5.3	3	82908,82910,82911	3418
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	36.5	5.3	1	82908	2045
Valentinite ()*	None	Sb₂O₃	36.5	5.3	4	82908,82910,82912,82914	369

16 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Sample Num	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
Emily000407	36.1	34.1	35.1±1	K-Ar	biotite	Sol 5				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000408	35.2	33	34.1±1.1	K-Ar	biotite	Sol 9				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000409	35.7	33.7	34.7±1	K-Ar	biotite	Tz25-98				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000410	35.8	32.8	34.3±1.5	K-Ar	biotite	Tz145-01				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000411	34.36	34.16	34.26±0.1	K-Ar	sanidine	SOL 2	Sanidine	Sanidine		2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000412	35.1	30.1	32.6±2.5	K-Ar	plagioclase	TZ187-01				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000413	36.5	34.5	35.5±1	K-Ar	sanidine	Tz4-99	Sanidine	Sanidine		2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000414	35.8	33	34.4±1.4	K-Ar	plagioclase	Tz17-99				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000415	34.4	31.2	32.8±1.6	K-Ar	plagioclase	Tz18-99				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000416	32.85	32.65	32.75±0.1	Ar-Ar	plagioclase	Tz63-02				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000417	33.53	33.33	33.43±0.1	Ar-Ar	plagioclase	Tz62-02				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000418	33.18	31.18	32.18±1	Rb-Sr	biotite	Bv 21				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000419	33.18	31.18	32.18±1	Rb-Sr	whole rock	Bv 21				2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Emily000420	34.35	34.17	34.26±0.09	40Ar/39Ar	sanidine	Sol 2	Sanidine	Sanidine		2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Tilzpotla Caldera	Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)	10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.04.002	JVGR136_97
Hg-00020	34	5.3		K-Ar, Rb-Sr				Christite, Cinnabar, Livingstonite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Routhierite, Simonite, Vrbaite	Hg	2332	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico		Campa and Ramírez (1979); Camprubi et al. (2003); Moran-Zenteno et al. (2004)
Bradley_2012_115	991	985	988±3	U/Pb	zircon		Zircon			9777	Agua Salada Mine, Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	Agua Salada	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	10.3749/canmin.52.2.183	CM52_183

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050427	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	https://rruff.info/R050427
R050453	Huitzuco De Los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Huitzuco Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico	https://rruff.info/R050453

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