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Locality Name:
Tapacari Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia


mindat Locality ID: 24913
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24913.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tapacari Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Incuyo
Juncullo
La Sorpresa Mine

Latitude: 17°30'13"S
Longitude: 66°36'5"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -17.503611111111,-66.601388888889

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: As C Ca Cu Fe H Hg Ni O S Sb Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteCalciteChalcopyriteEpsomiteGypsumLöllingiteNickelineNonePyriteQuartz
RhabdophaneStibniteVivianite

15 IMA Minerals at location:
Annabergite  (*)Aragonite  (*)Bassanite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Cinnabar  (*)
Gypsum  (*)Metastibnite  (*)Morenosite  (*)Nickeline  (*)Gersdorffite-Pa3  (*)
Quartz  (*)Rammelsbergite  (*)Scorodite  (*)Siderite  (*)Stibnite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Annabergite  (*)VivianiteNi3(AsO4)2·8H2O125874445
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)1258713250
Bassanite  (*)RhabdophaneCa(SO4)·0.5H2O12587182
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS212587427198
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS225871,258732600
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O1258716890
Metastibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S312587187
Morenosite  (*)EpsomiteNi(SO4)·7H2O12587484
Nickeline  (*)NickelineNiAs125874633
Gersdorffite-Pa3  (*)PyriteNiAsS125874767
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO212587161156
Rammelsbergite  (*)LöllingiteNiAs2125874233
Scorodite  (*)NoneFe3+(AsO4)·2H2O1258741153
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)225871,258746417
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S31258713418



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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