Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Nieves, General Francisco Murguía Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 27247
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27247.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nieves, General Francisco Murguía Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Rosario Mine
San Francisco Mine
San Gregorio Mine
San José Mine
Santa Caterina Mine
Santa Rita Mine
Tequezquite Mine

Latitude: 24°0'0"N
Longitude: 103°'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 24,-103.01638888889

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	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	None	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Stibnite

Acanthite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Galena ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibiconite ()*	Stibnite ()*	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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Hg O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: H O Sb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper None Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Stibnite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	84790	2793
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	84791	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	84786,84787,84791	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	84790	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	84792	2600
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	84788,84789,84790	24243
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	1	84791	784
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	84789	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	84787,84790,84791	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	84791	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	84790	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	84790	21482
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	0		446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	84791	3418
Valentinite ()*	None	Sb₂O₃	1	84791	369

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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