Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
North Soto Province, Santander Department, Colombia

mindat Locality ID: 308019
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-308019.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "North Soto Province, Santander Department, Colombia": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Mun. Vetas

Latitude: 7°18'58"N
Longitude: 72°51'37"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 7.3161111111111,-72.860277777778

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.

Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Marcasite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Bornite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Au Cu Fe Mo O Pb S Sb Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Marcasite Molybdenite Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Spinel Tetrahedrite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	45748	5516
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	45748	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	45748	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	45748	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	45748	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	45748	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	45748	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	45748	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	45748	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	45748	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	45748	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	45748	5186
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	45748	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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