Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Cerro Palestina, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile

mindat Locality ID: 207192
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-207192.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cerro Palestina, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Estación Cerro Negro

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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	Atacamite	Copper	Minium	None	Perovskite	Quartz	Rocksalt

Atacamite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Diaboleite ()*
Galena ()*	Herbertsmithite ()*	Massicot ()*	Minium ()*	Phoenicochroite ()*
Quartz ()*	Schwartzembergite ()*	Seeligerite ()*

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 C Cl Cr Cu H I O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Atacamite Copper Minium None Perovskite Quartz Rocksalt

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	35568	544
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	5	35568,35569,35571,35573,35576	4979
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	35569	1382
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3	35570,35575,35576	3846
Diaboleite ()*	Perovskite	CuPb₂Cl₂(OH)₄	2	35568,35569	57
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	8	35570,35571,35572,35573,35574,35575,35576,35577	24243
Herbertsmithite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃Zn(OH)₆Cl₂	2	35568,35569	21
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	1	35576	202
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄	1	35576	247
Phoenicochroite ()*	None	Pb₂O(CrO₄)	2	35568,35569	35
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	35568,35569,35571,35573	61156
Schwartzembergite ()*	None	Pb²⁺₅H₂I³⁺O₆Cl₃	3	35568,35569,35577	21
Seeligerite ()*	None	Pb₃(IO₄)Cl₃	2	35568,35569	12

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060664	Cerro Palestina, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile	https://rruff.info/R060664

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