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Locality Name:
Catorce (Real De Catorce), Catorce Municipality, San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Oldest recorded age at locality: 35.7
Youngest recorded age at locality: 23

mindat Locality ID: 2343
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-2343.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Catorce (Real De Catorce), Catorce Municipality, San Luis Potosí, Mexico": 26
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 26

Number of Child Localities: 26
Child Localities:
Anexas Mine
Bombillo Mine
Bravos Mine
Concepción Mine
Dolores Mine
Guadalpana Mine
Guadalupito Mine
Guardarraya Mine
Guerrero Mine
La Purísima Mine
Luz Mine
Medellín Mine
Morelos Mine
Pobres Mine
Refugio Mine
San Agustín Mine
San Antonio Mine
San Carlos Mine
San Guillermo Mine
San José Mine
San Pablo Mine
San Pedro Mine
Santa Ana Mine
Santa Prisca Mine
Valenciana Mine
Zavala Mine (Padre Flores Mine)

Latitude: 23°42'0"N
Longitude: 100°54'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 23.7,-100.9

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	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Descloizite	Diaspore
Gypsum	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt
Rutile	Sphalerite	Stibnite

Acanthite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bromargyrite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Descloizite ()*
Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Litharge ()*	Malachite ()*
Massicot ()*	Polybasite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stibiconite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Valentinite ()*	Vanadinite ()*

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 Br C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Hg Mn O Pb S Sb Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Descloizite Diaspore
Gypsum Malachite None Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt
Rutile Sphalerite Stibnite

29 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
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	35.7	23	1	83931	2793
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	35.7	23	1	83949	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	35.7	23	1	83931	5509
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	35.7	23	4	83931,83937,83939,83942	227
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	35.7	23	0		27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	35.7	23	2	83931,83949	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	35.7	23	3	83941,83943,83945	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	35.7	23	2	83931,83953	1382
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	35.7	23	2	83931,83933	2600
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	35.7	23	1	83931	378
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	35.7	23	1	83931	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	35.7	23	3	83928,83932,83949	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	35.7	23	1	83931	14640
Litharge ()*	None	PbO	35.7	23	1	83949	139
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	35.7	23	1	83931	12537
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	35.7	23	2	83931,83949	202
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	35.7	23	3	83929,83931,83942	716
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	35.7	23	5	83931,83937,83943,83944,83950	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	35.7	23	8	83930,83931,83933,83936,83940,83945,83946,83948	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	35.7	23	1	83950	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	35.7	23	0		61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	35.7	23	1	83943	1711
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	35.7	23	1	83950	969
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	35.7	23	3	83931,83942,83943	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	35.7	23	12	83931,83934,83935,83936,83939,83940,83943,83946,83947,83949,83951,83952	21482
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	35.7	23	1	83944	446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	35.7	23	2	83938,83944	3418
Valentinite ()*	None	Sb₂O₃	35.7	23	1	83938	369
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	35.7	23	1	83931	605

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
EG98_1029_tbl_1_028	epithermal

2 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
	EG98_1029_tbl_1_028	35.7	35.7	35.7?	K-Ar										2343	Catorce (Real De Catorce), Catorce Municipality, San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Real de Catorce	Camprubi et al. (2003)	10.2113/gsecongeo.98.5.1029	EG98_1029
	sedznpb-00305	33.9	23	Oligocene											2343	Catorce (Real De Catorce), Catorce Municipality, San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Catorce	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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