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Locality Name:
Yabricoya District, El Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile

Oldest recorded age at locality: 31
Youngest recorded age at locality: 31

mindat Locality ID: 196013
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-196013.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Yabricoya District, El Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Animas Mine
Jauja Mine
La Planada Mine
Luisa Canulpa Mine
Macaya Mine
Picantiza Mine
Violeta Mine

Latitude: 20°10'30"S
Longitude: 69°4'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -20.175,-69.083055555556

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.

Allophane	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Atacamite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay
Copper	Covellite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite
Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Alunite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Arsenic ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Atacamite ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Jamesonite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
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 Al As C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Apatite Aragonite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Atacamite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay
Copper Covellite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite
Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite

26 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
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	31	31	1	36797	966
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)			1	36798	2734
Arsenic ()*	Arsenic	As			1	36801	379
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			1	36796	9052
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	31	31	1	36797	544
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄			1	36796	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			3	36796,36798,36801	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)			1	36796	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	31	31	1	36797	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	31	31	3	36796,36797,36798	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	31	31	3	36797,36798,36801	3531
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	31	31	1	36797	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	31	31	1	36797	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			5	36795,36796,36798,36800,36801	24243
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄			1	36801	784
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	31	31	1	36797	14899
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl			1	36799	1107
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	31	31	1	36797	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	31	31	1	36797	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	31	31	2	36796,36797	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			4	36796,36798,36799,36801	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			2	36795,36800	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			3	36796,36798,36801	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃			2	36796,36798	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			3	36796,36798,36801	5317
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄			1	36798	1655

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
	PorphCu-00231	31	31	31									Alunite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Cuprite, Magnetite, Molybdenite, Pyrite	Cu	195846	La Planada Mine, Yabricoya District, El Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá, Chile	La Planada	Singer et al. (2008)		USGSOFR2008_1155

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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