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:
Cerro De Las Fajas, Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 278632
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-278632.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cerro De Las Fajas, Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Santín Mine

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.

Amorphous	Apatite	Clay	Corundum	Cristobalite	Feldspar	Fluorite	None	Quartz	Rutile
Smectite-vermiculite	Tapiolite	Topaz	Tridymite	Zircon

Cassiterite ()*	Cristobalite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Hematite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Opal ()*	Ordoñezite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Quartz ()*
Sanidine ()*	Topaz ()*	Tridymite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Fe H K Mg Na O P Sb Si Sn Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Apatite Clay Corundum Cristobalite Feldspar Fluorite None Quartz Rutile
Smectite-vermiculite Tapiolite Topaz Tridymite Zircon

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	82856	5171
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	82856	453
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	82856	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	82856	9617
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	82856	14640
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	82856	1508
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	82856	2994
Ordoñezite ()*	Tapiolite	ZnSb⁵⁺₂O₆	1	82856	7
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	82856	2349
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	82856	61156
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	82856	598
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	82856	1476
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	82856	458
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	82856	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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