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:
Chocó Department, Colombia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 100
Youngest recorded age at locality: 48

mindat Locality ID: 28794
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-28794.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Chocó Department, Colombia": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Acandí Municipality
Condoto Municipality
El Carmen De Atrato Municipality
Novita Municipality
Rio Condoto Area
Riosucio Municipality

Latitude: 6°33'24"N
Longitude: 76°40'4"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 6.5566666666667,-76.667777777778

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.

Amphibole	Auricupride	Bowieite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Feldspar
Mica	Nickeline	None	Perovskite	Potarite	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Spinel

Albite ()*	Bowieite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*
Cooperite ()*	Cuprorhodsite ()*	Epidote ()*	Erlichmanite ()*	Gold ()*
Iridium ()*	Isoferroplatinum ()*	Laurite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pargasite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Platinum ()*	Pyrite ()*	Rhodium ()*
Rutheniridosmine ()*	Sorosite ()*	Stistaite ()*	Tin ()*	Tulameenite ()*

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 Au C Ca Cr Cu Fe H Ir K Mg Na O Os Pt Rh Ru S Sb Si Sn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Auricupride Bowieite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Feldspar
Mica Nickeline None Perovskite Potarite Pyrite Rocksalt Spinel

25 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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	48	48	1	45667	8803
Bowieite ()*	Bowieite	Rh₂S₃			1	45669	33
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	48	48	1	45667	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	48	48	1	45667	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄			1	45669	3902
Cooperite ()*	None	PtS			1	45669	124
Cuprorhodsite ()*	Spinel	(Cu¹⁺_0.5Fe³⁺_0.5)Rh³⁺₂S₄			1	45669	34
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	48	48	1	45667	8173
Erlichmanite ()*	Pyrite	OsS₂			1	45669	110
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			2	45673,45678	30554
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir			1	45678	162
Isoferroplatinum ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Pt₃Fe			1	45669	128
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂			1	45669	226
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	45669	14899
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	48	48	1	45667	17380
Pargasite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Mg₄Al)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂			1	45669	313
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂			1	45669	2273
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt			2	45673,45678	485
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	48	48	1	45667	39462
Rhodium ()*	Copper	Rh			1	45678	17
Rutheniridosmine ()*	None	(Ir,Os,Ru)			1	45678	47
Sorosite ()*	Nickeline	Cu_1+x(Sn,Sb)			1	45674	6
Stistaite ()*	Rocksalt	SnSb			1	45674	11
Tin ()*	None	Sn			1	45674	63
Tulameenite ()*	Potarite	Pt₂CuFe			1	45669	48

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
	PorphCu-00591	48	48	48									Albite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Pyrite	Cu	208328	Acandí Cu Deposit, Acandí Municipality, Chocó Department, Colombia	Acandi	Singer et al. (2008)		USGSOFR2008_1155
	vms-00424	100	66	Upper Cretaceous											123462	El Roble Mine, El Carmen De Atrato Municipality, Chocó Department, Colombia	El Roble	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R080067	Chocó Department, Colombia	https://rruff.info/R080067

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