Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
El Doctor (Doctor), Cadereyta Municipality, Queretaro, Mexico

Oldest recorded age at locality: 17
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 27163
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27163.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "El Doctor (Doctor), Cadereyta Municipality, Queretaro, Mexico": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Aguas Mine
Cabras Mine
Doctor Mine
Durazno Mine
Maravillas Mine
San Juan Nepomuceno Mine
San Onofre Mine
Trinity Mine

Latitude: 20°50'59"N
Longitude: 99°35'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 20.849722222222,-99.583333333333

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	Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Corundum	Löllingite	Malachite	None	Orpiment	Pyrite	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Spinel

Acanthite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bromargyrite ()*	Calomel ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Hematite ()*	Löllingite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Mercury ()*	Metacinnabar ()*	Montroydite ()*	Mosesite ()*	Orpiment ()*
Pyrite ()*	Realgar ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tiemannite ()*	Valentinite ()*

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 As Br C Cl Cu Fe H Hg N O S Sb Se Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Corundum Löllingite Malachite None Orpiment Pyrite Rocksalt
Sphalerite Spinel

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	17	2	83879,83881	2793
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	17	1	83874	9052
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	17	1	83879	227
Calomel ()*	None	HgCl	17	1	83879	91
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	17	2	83874,83879	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	17	2	83875,83877	2600
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	17	1	83879	14640
Löllingite ()*	Löllingite	FeAs₂	17	1	83876	762
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	17	1	83876	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	17	1	83878	12537
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	17	1	83875	397
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	17	1	83880	255
Montroydite ()*	None	HgO	17	1	83880	29
Mosesite ()*	None	(Hg₂N)Cl	17	1	83880	6
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃	17	1	83879	511
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	17	1	83879	39462
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	17	1	83879	712
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	17	2	83879,83881	21482
Tiemannite ()*	Sphalerite	HgSe	17	1	83876	83
Valentinite ()*	None	Sb₂O₃	17	1	83879	369

1 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
	Hg-00083	17	0		Ar-Ar								Calomel, Cinnabar, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Montroydite, Mosesite, Tiemannite	Hg	27163	El Doctor (Doctor), Cadereyta Municipality, Queretaro, Mexico		Ferrari et al. (1999); Aguirre-Díaz and López-Martínez (2001)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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