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:
América-Sapioris District (Potrillos), Coneto De Comonfort Municipality, Durango, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 29037
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29037.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "América-Sapioris District (Potrillos), Coneto De Comonfort Municipality, Durango, Mexico": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
América (La América)
Sapioris
Sierra De San Francisco

Latitude: 25°6'59"N
Longitude: 104°58'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 25.116388888889,-104.97472222222

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	Corundum	Feldspar	None	Pseudobrookite	Quartz	Rutile	Tapiolite	Topaz

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 F Fe H K O Sb Si Sn Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Corundum Feldspar None Pseudobrookite Quartz Rutile Tapiolite Topaz

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Cassiterite ()*	Hematite ()*	Opal ()*	Ordoñezite ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sanidine ()*	Topaz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	7	82318,82319,82320,82322,82323,82327,82328	5171
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	82319	14640
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	82327	2994
Ordoñezite ()*	Tapiolite	ZnSb⁵⁺₂O₆	1	82324	7
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	1	82328	164
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	82320	61156
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	82320	598
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	82327	1476

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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