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Locality Name:
Mugica Municipality, Michoacan, Mexico

Oldest recorded age at locality: 34.1
Youngest recorded age at locality: 32.7

mindat Locality ID: 292785
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-292785.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mugica Municipality, Michoacan, Mexico": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Nueva Italia De Ruiz

Latitude: 19°4'40"N
Longitude: 102°1'52"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 19.077777777778,-102.03111111111

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.

Allophane	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Diaspore	Digenite	Epidote
Feldspar	Gypsum	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Scheelite
Smectite-vermiculite	Tetrahedrite

Albite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Digenite ()*
Epidote ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Malachite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Scheelite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*

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 As C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O S Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Diaspore Digenite Epidote
Feldspar Gypsum Malachite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Scheelite
Smectite-vermiculite Tetrahedrite

22 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)	34.1	32.7	1	83541	8803
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	34.1	32.7	1	83541	1588
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	34.1	32.7	1	83541	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	34.1	32.7	1	83541	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	34.1	32.7	1	83541	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	34.1	32.7	1	83541	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	34.1	32.7	1	83541	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	34.1	32.7	1	83541	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	34.1	32.7	1	83541	3531
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	34.1	32.7	1	83541	1027
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	34.1	32.7	1	83541	8173
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	34.1	32.7	1	83541	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	34.1	32.7	1	83541	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	34.1	32.7	1	83541	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	34.1	32.7	1	83541	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	34.1	32.7	1	83541	5800
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	34.1	32.7	1	83541	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	34.1	32.7	1	83541	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	34.1	32.7	1	83541	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	34.1	32.7	1	83541	9056
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	34.1	32.7	1	83541	4894
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	34.1	32.7	1	83541	1803

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
	PorphCu-00046	34.1	32.7	33.4±0.7									Albite, Arsenopyrite, Bornite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Epidote, Goethite, Molybdenite, Montmorillonite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite	Cu	14115	La Verde Mine, Nueva Italia De Ruiz, Mugica Municipality, Michoacan, Mexico	La Verde	Singer et al. (2008)		USGSOFR2008_1155

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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