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Locality Name:
El Oro De Hidalgo (El Oro; El Oro Hidalgo; Oro De Hidalgo), Mun. Del Oro, Mexico, Mexico


mindat Locality ID: 23776
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-23776.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "El Oro De Hidalgo (El Oro; El Oro Hidalgo; Oro De Hidalgo), Mun. Del Oro, Mexico, Mexico": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Buen Suseco Mine
Carmen Mine
Consuela Mine
Coronado Mine
Dolores Mine
Dos Estrellas Mine
Esperanza Mine
Mexico Mine
Nolan Mine
Oro Mine
Piedad Mine
Rosario Mine
San Antonio Mine
San José Mine
San Juan Nepomuceno Mine
San Miguel Mine
San Rafael Mine
Santa Rita Mine

Latitude: 19°48'0"N
Longitude: 100°8'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 19.8,-100.13333333333

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Au Bi Br C Cl Cu H O P S 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteBismutiteCopperNoneRocksalt

7 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Bismutite  (*)Bromargyrite  (*)Chlorargyrite  (*)Gold  (*)
Pseudomalachite  (*)Silver  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S583331,83332,83333,83334,833352793
Bismutite  (*)BismutiteBi2O2(CO3)183327716
Bromargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgBr383327,83338,83342227
Chlorargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgCl383327,83338,833421382
Gold  (*)CopperAu583331,83332,83333,83334,8333530554
Pseudomalachite  (*)NoneCu5(PO4)2(OH)4183327369
Silver  (*)CopperAg1783326,83327,83328,83329,83330,83331,83332,83333,83334,83335,83336,83337,83338,83339,83340,83341,833435186



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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