Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Arauco Department, La Rioja Province, Argentina

mindat Locality ID: 239725
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-239725.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Arauco Department, La Rioja Province, Argentina": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Villa Mazán

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.

Andalusite	Beryl	Clay	Fluorite	Mica	None	Quartz	Rutile	Scheelite

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: Al Ca F H K Mg O Si Sn Ti W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Beryl Clay Fluorite Mica None Quartz Rutile Scheelite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Andalusite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Cordierite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Scheelite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	2870	1310
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	3	2870,2871,2873	5171
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	2870	1008
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	2870	9617
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	2870	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	2871,2873	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	2870	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	2873	4894

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...