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Locality Name:
Guipúzcoa (Gipuzkoa), Basque Country, Spain

Oldest recorded age at locality: 145
Youngest recorded age at locality: 100

mindat Locality ID: 24097
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24097.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Guipúzcoa (Gipuzkoa), Basque Country, Spain": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Alkiza
Deba
Enirio Aralar
Etxebarria
Mondragón (Arrasate)
Mutiloa
Oiartzun
Zerain

Latitude: 43°5'9"N
Longitude: 2°17'25"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.085833333333,-2.2902777777778

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.

Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Diaspore	Fluorite	Malachite	Marcasite	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Ankerite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bournonite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Freibergite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Malachite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	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 Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg Mo O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Diaspore Fluorite Malachite Marcasite Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

24 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
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	145	100	1	108840	3092
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	145	100	2	108831,108840	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			1	108831	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	145	100	4	108829,108840,108843,108851	11547
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃			2	108829,108843	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	145	100	8	108829,108835,108836,108837,108839,108840,108843,108851	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	145	100	6	108829,108831,108836,108840,108843,108851	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	145	100	3	108836,108840,108851	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			2	108835,108843	9617
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂			1	108843	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	145	100	6	108829,108831,108836,108840,108843,108851	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	108851	7437
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O			1	108831	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆			1	108831	1066
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	145	100	4	108831,108839,108840,108851	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	145	100	3	108829,108840,108843	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	145	100	4	108829,108836,108840,108843	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	145	100	2	108840,108843	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	145	100	8	108827,108829,108833,108836,108837,108840,108843,108851	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	145	100	3	108840,108843,108851	6417
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)			2	108831,108836	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	145	100	6	108829,108831,108836,108840,108843,108851	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	145	100	2	108829,108840	5317
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄			1	108831	1655

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
	sedexmvt-00212	145	100	Early Cretaceous		host rock age									3131	Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Guipúzcoa (Gipuzkoa), Basque Country, Spain	Troya	Taylor et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1297
	sedznpb-00415	126	113	Early Cretaceous (Aptian)											3131	Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Guipúzcoa (Gipuzkoa), Basque Country, Spain	Troya	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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