Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Caravia Mining Area, Asturias, Spain

mindat Locality ID: 231224
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-231224.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Caravia Mining Area, Asturias, Spain": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Caravia District
Colunga District

Latitude: 43°27'33"N
Longitude: 5°12'31"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.459166666667,-5.2086111111111

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	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Fluorite	Malachite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rutile	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Aragonite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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: Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H Hg Mg Mn O S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Fluorite Malachite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rutile Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	108577	3250
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	108577	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	5	108568,108572,108573,108577,108584	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6	108568,108572,108573,108577,108580,108584	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	108573,108584	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	3	108568,108573,108584	2600
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	108573,108577,108584	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9	108564,108565,108566,108568,108572,108573,108577,108578,108584	9617
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	108577	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	2	108572,108573	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	108568,108573,108584	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	108584	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	108564,108565,108568,108572,108573,108577,108584	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	108573,108584	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	108568	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	108577	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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