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Locality Name:
Ascención Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico

Oldest recorded age at locality: 45.2
Youngest recorded age at locality: 45.2

mindat Locality ID: 219280
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-219280.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ascención Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Bismark Mine
Sabinal

Latitude: 31°4'28"N
Longitude: 107°35'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.074444444444,-107.59972222222

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	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Fluorite	Löllingite	Nickeline
None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite

Baryte ()*	Bohdanowiczite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Mimetite ()*
Polybasite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rammelsbergite ()*	Safflorite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	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 Ba Bi C Ca Cl Co Cu F Fe H Mo Ni O Pb S Sb Se Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Fluorite Löllingite Nickeline
None Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite

20 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
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	81706	11547
Bohdanowiczite ()*	None	AgBiSe₂	45.2	45.2	1	81705	41
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	45.2	45.2	1	81705	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	45.2	45.2	1	81705	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	45.2	45.2	1	81705	27198
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	45.2	45.2	2	81705,81706	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	45.2	45.2	6	81705,81706,81707,81708,81709,81710	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			1	81707	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	45.2	45.2	2	81705,81706	1689
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl			1	81706	1107
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]			1	81707	716
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃			1	81707	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	45.2	45.2	1	81705	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	45.2	45.2	1	81705	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	45.2	45.2	2	81705,81707	61156
Rammelsbergite ()*	Löllingite	NiAs₂			1	81707	233
Safflorite ()*	Löllingite	CoAs₂			1	81707	317
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			1	81707	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	45.2	45.2	1	81705	21482
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	45.2	45.2	2	81705,81706	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
	sedznpb-00303	45.2	45.2	45.2											28957	Bismark Mine, Ascención Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico	Bismark	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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