Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
San Pedro Y San Pablo De Tlalpujahua District, Tlalpujahua Municipality, Michoacan, Mexico

Oldest recorded age at locality: 27
Youngest recorded age at locality: 27

mindat Locality ID: 19188
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19188.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "San Pedro Y San Pablo De Tlalpujahua District, Tlalpujahua Municipality, Michoacan, Mexico": 36
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 35

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Tlalpujahua

Latitude: 19°47'59"N
Longitude: 100°9'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 19.799722222222,-100.16638888889

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	Chalcopyrite	Copper	None	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Tetrahedrite

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 Au Br Cu Fe O S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Chalcopyrite Copper None Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Tetrahedrite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Bromargyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Gold ()*	Polybasite ()*
Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*
Stephanite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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	27	27	2	83557,83588	2793
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	27	27	1	83565	227
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27	27	3	83557,83563,83565	27198
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	27	27	23	83556,83559,83560,83561,83562,83563,83564,83566,83568,83569,83570,83571,83572,83575,83576,83578,83579,83582,83583,83584,83585,83586,83587	30554
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	27	27	3	83555,83557,83574	716
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	27	27	1	83565	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	27	27	6	83557,83559,83569,83579,83581,83582	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	27	27	1	83565	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	27	27	1	83567	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	27	27	13	83554,83557,83558,83559,83561,83562,83563,83565,83572,83573,83577,83583,83588	5186
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	27	27	9	83558,83561,83562,83565,83572,83573,83577,83580,83583	586
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	27	27	2	83557,83569	5317

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
EG98_1029_tbl_1_022	epithermal

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
	EG98_1029_tbl_1_022	27	27	27	K-Ar										14670	Tlalpujahua, San Pedro Y San Pablo De Tlalpujahua District, Tlalpujahua Municipality, Michoacan, Mexico	El Oro-Tlalpujahua	Camprubi et al. (2003)	10.2113/gsecongeo.98.5.1029	EG98_1029

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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