Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Villa De Ramos Municipality, San Luis Potosí, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 29793
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29793.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Villa De Ramos Municipality, San Luis Potosí, Mexico": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Ramos

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.

Acanthite	Brochantite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Diaspore	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chlorargyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Malachite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tenorite ()*

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 C Cl Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Brochantite Chalcopyrite Copper Diaspore Malachite None Not in a structural group Polybasite Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite

17 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	84054	2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	84054,84055	5509
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	84054	1633
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	84054	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	84054	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	84055	1382
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	84054	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	84054	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	84054	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	84054,84055	7437
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	84054,84055	12537
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	1	84054	716
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	2	84054,84055	1425
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	84054	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	84054	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	84054,84055,84056	21482
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	84054	1101

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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