Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Elizabethtown District, Sangre De Cristo Mts, Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 21966
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-21966.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Elizabethtown District, Sangre De Cristo Mts, Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA": 40
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 37

Number of Child Localities: 33
Child Localities:
Ajax Claim
Alabama Mine
Chester Claim
Confidence Mine
Copper Park
Deep Tunnel Mine
Denver Mine
Galena Claim
Gold Dollar Claim
Gold Leaf Prospect
Grouse Gulch Placers
Harmon Prospect
Hematite Creek
Hidden Treasure Claim
Humbug Gulch Placers
Idlewild
Iron Mountain Claim
Legal Tender Mine
Lucia Prospect
Monarch No. 2 Prospect
Moreno Centenial Mine
Moreno River Placers
Mystic Claim
Only Chance Claim (Choice Claim)
Pay Ore Mine
Ponil District
President Mine
Prichard Prospect
Red Bandana Mine
Sheridan Mine
Spanish Bar Placer
Tomboy Prospect
Turkey Mountain

Latitude: 36°34'15"N
Longitude: 104°47'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.570833333333,-104.78777777778

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	Allophane	Amphibole	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite
Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Spinel	Vivianite

Acanthite ()*	Albite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bismuth ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Cuprite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Erythrite ()*	Ferberite ()*
Galena ()*	Glaucodot ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Tremolite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 Au Bi C Ca Co Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Si Sn U W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Bi Ca Fe H Mg O S Si W

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Amphibole Arsenic Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite
Copper Corundum Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Malachite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Spinel Vivianite

30 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	0		2793
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	244504	8803
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	244536	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	244508	5509
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	0		1966
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	244534	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	244504,244510,244536	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	244516	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	244504,244508,244526	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	244508,244532	3531
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2	244508,244532	2970
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	244526	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3	244504,244512,244526	8173
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	244536	814
Ferberite ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺(WO₄)	0		551
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	244511	24243
Glaucodot ()*	Arsenopyrite	(Co_0.5Fe_0.5)AsS	1	244536	131
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	8	244505,244510,244516,244526,244527,244530,244531,244539	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	244504,244516,244526	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	244504,244510,244526	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4	244508,244525,244532,244534	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	244509,244532	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	244516,244543	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	244504,244510,244525,244526,244534	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	0		9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	13	244504,244505,244508,244510,244511,244513,244525,244527,244528,244530,244536,244538,244539	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	244504	4894
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	0		2562
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	244537	2718
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	244504	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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