Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Quiruvilca District, Santiago De Chuco Province, La Libertad, Peru

mindat Locality ID: 203609
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-203609.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Quiruvilca District, Santiago De Chuco Province, La Libertad, Peru": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Lagunas Norte Mine
Quiruvilca Mine (La Libertad Mine; ASARCO Mine)

Latitude: 7°58'35"S
Longitude: 78°17'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -7.9763888888889,-78.283611111111

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.

Apatite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Axinite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Enargite
Epidote	Geocronite	Marcasite	None	Orpiment	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sartorite	Scheelite
Sphalerite	Stannite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Alabandite ()*	Argentobaumhauerite ()*	Arsenic ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Axinite-(Mn) ()*
Baryte ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bournonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chatkalite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Enargite ()*	Famatinite ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*	Geocronite ()*	Gratonite ()*	Hutchinsonite ()*
Jamesonite ()*	Luzonite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Orpiment ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Realgar ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Robinsonite ()*	Scheelite ()*
Seligmannite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stannite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Velikite ()*	Wurtzite ()*

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 B Ba Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H Hg Mg Mn O P Pb S Sb Si Sn Tl W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cu Hg S Sn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Axinite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Enargite
Epidote Geocronite Marcasite None Orpiment Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sartorite Scheelite
Sphalerite Stannite Stibnite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

38 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	1	96297	312
Argentobaumhauerite ()*	Sartorite	Ag_1.5Pb₂₂As_33.5S₇₂	1	96297	2
Arsenic ()*	Arsenic	As	1	96297	379
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	96297	9052
Axinite-(Mn) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Mn²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	1	96297	88
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	96297	11547
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	96297	1935
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1	96297	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	96297	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	96297	27198
Chatkalite ()*	None	Cu₆FeSn₂S₈	1	96297	8
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	96297	1025
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	96297	9895
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	96297	910
Famatinite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃SbS₄	1	96297	163
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	96297	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	96297	24243
Geocronite ()*	Geocronite	Pb₁₄Sb₆S₂₃	1	96297	133
Gratonite ()*	None	Pb₉As₄S₁₅	1	96297	24
Hutchinsonite ()*	None	TlPbAs₅S₉	1	96297	8
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	1	96297	784
Luzonite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	96297	198
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	96297	5674
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃	1	96297	511
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	96297	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	96297	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	1	96297	712
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	96297	1711
Robinsonite ()*	None	Pb₄Sb₆S₁₃	1	96297	39
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	96297	4894
Seligmannite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbAsS₃	1	96297	64
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	96297	21482
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄	1	96297	668
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	96297	3418
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	96297	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	96297	5317
Velikite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂HgSnS₄	0		5
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	1	96297	372

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...