Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Santa Rosa, Mazapil Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 23488
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-23488.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Santa Rosa, Mazapil Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Santa Rosa Mine

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.

Acanthite	Apatite	Aragonite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Malachite	None	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite
Turquoise

Acanthite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Malachite ()*	Massicot ()*	Mimetite ()*	Prosopite ()*
Pyromorphite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Turquoise ()*	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 Al As Au C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Hg Mo O P Pb S Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Apatite Aragonite Chalcopyrite Copper Malachite None Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite
Turquoise

15 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	1	84836	2793
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	84836	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	84836	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	84836	2600
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	84836	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	84836	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	84836	12537
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	1	84836	202
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1	84836	1107
Prosopite ()*	None	CaAl₂F₄(OH)₄	1	84836	39
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	84836	1725
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	84836	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	84836	21482
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	84836	484
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	84836	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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