Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
El Oro Municipality, Durango, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 19395
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19395.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "El Oro Municipality, Durango, Mexico": 30
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 28

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Magistral
Santa María Del Oro (El Oro)

Latitude: 25°57'29"N
Longitude: 105°22'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 25.958055555556,-105.38305555556

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	Arsenic	Baryte	Bismutite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Malachite
Mixite	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite
Wollastonite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bismite ()*	Bismuth ()*
Bismuthinite ()*	Bismutite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Malachite ()*
Mercury ()*	Mixite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Pseudomalachite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stromeyerite ()*	Tenorite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Wollastonite ()*	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 Au Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Hg Mo O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenic Baryte Bismutite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Diaspore Malachite
Mixite None Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite
Wollastonite

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	4	82384,82394,82395,82398	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	82401	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	6	82386,82387,82390,82396,82399,82402	5509
Bismite ()*	None	Bi₂O₃	1	82388	214
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	82388	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	82388	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	1	82388	716
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	82382	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	82383	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	82380	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	82380	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	82380	2600
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2	82384,82398	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	82380	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	82380	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3	82380,82389,82401	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	82384	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	2	82377,82402	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	82381	1066
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4	82390,82396,82399,82402	12537
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	1	82380	397
Mixite ()*	Mixite	Cu₆Bi(AsO₄)₃(OH)₆·3H₂O	1	82388	168
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	1	82400	716
Pseudomalachite ()*	None	Cu₅(PO₄)₂(OH)₄	1	82388	369
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	11	82375,82376,82378,82379,82389,82393,82394,82395,82398,82401,82403	39462
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	82380	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	82394,82395,82397,82398	21482
Stromeyerite ()*	None	CuAgS	2	82391,82396	332
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	2	82384,82396	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	82392	5317
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	82385	1247
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	82381	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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