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:
Arivaca District (Las Guijas District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 70
Youngest recorded age at locality: 67.2

mindat Locality ID: 31250
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-31250.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Arivaca District (Las Guijas District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA": 170
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 156

Number of Child Localities: 121
Child Localities:
Alpha Mine
Apache Prospect
Arion Mine
Arivaca
Arizona Mine
Arkansas Mine (Arcansas Mine)
Aryan Mine
Atlas Group
Baker Consolidated Copper Group
Batopilas Prospect
Best Bet Mine (North Star Mine)
Black Eagle Mine
Black Rock And Red Dick Mine
Blue Jacket No. 1 And 2
Blue Jay And Gold Star Mine
Bluebird Mine
Bravo Mine
Buster Mine (Buster Lode Prospect)
Carpenteria Group
Carrasco Mine
Centennial And Tungsten Mine
Clipper Mine
COD Mine
Columbia Mine (Arizona Mine)
Come-What-May Mine
Concepcion Mine
Consolidated Arizona Mine (Van Nostrand Mine; McCafferty Mine)
Copper Queen Mine
Copperopolis Group
Cota Mine
Deer Mine
Dos Naciones Mine
Eclipse Mine
El Dorado; El Pueblo; And Helen Groups
El Encanto Group
Elza Mine (Elzo No. 4 Mine)
Fair Play Mine
Fairview Mine (Fair View Mine)
Ferro Prospect (Chance No. 1)
Fortuna No. 2 Mine
Fraguita Creek
Geneva Mine
Gold Dragon No. 2 Mine
Gold Pan Prospect
Gold Plate Mine
Golden Eagle Mine
Golden Grain Mine
Golden West Claim
Grand Republic Mine
Green Gold And Silver Mine
Green Monster Mine
Half Breed Mine
Hillside Prospect
Honey House Mine
Idaho Mine
Jean Louise Claim
La Carava Mine
La Fortuna Prospect
La Paloma Blanca Mine
Las Guijas Mts
LC Group
Lillie Mine
Lincoln No. 1 Mine (Lincoln Group)
Loleta Mine
Lone Scot Claim Area
Lone Star Claim
Longarine Mine (Longarina Mine)
Mabel No. 1 Claim
Mammoth Group (Red Bird; Rattlesnake; Sideinder; Gila Monster; Mammoth Nos. 1-11; Tip Top)
Maud C-1 Mine (Paradiso 1-6; Paradiso Extension Mine)
McCafferty Mine
Mentor Mine
Molly-O Mine
Morning Glory No. 2 Mine
Mother Goose And Red Rooster Mine
New Deal 2 Prospect
No. 1 Claim
Noche Triste Mine
Old Glory Mine
Oro Fino Mine
Pacific Claim
Parallel Mine
Payoff Mine
Pima Chief Mine
Pisquiera Mine
Pitiquito Mine
Postboy Mine
Puertesitas Mine
Red Dumps Mine
Relief Mine
Rosario Mine
Royal And Betty Mine
San Jose Mine
San Luis Mts
San Simon Mine
Santa Maria Mine
Santa Rosa Mine
Shamrock Mine
Shepard Mine
Side Box Claim
Silver Bar No. 4 Prospect (Navajo Nos. 1 And 2; Queen Elizabeth Prospect)
Silver Coin Mine
Silver Copper Queen Mine
Silver Eagle Mine
Silver Nite No. 1 Mine
Silver Ray Prospect
Skunk Mine
Sungold Mine
Sunshine Mine No. 1
Tennessee Mine
Three Sisters Group
Tumacacori Mine
Udall Mine
Union Mine
Unnamed Ag-Au Prospect
Unnamed Au-Ag Mine
Unnamed Cu-Ag-Au Occurrence
Virginia Mine
Wedge No. 2 Mine
White Silver Mine
Zebra Group

Latitude: 31°35'41"N
Longitude: 111°20'39"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.594722222222,-111.34416666667

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Braunite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Descloizite
Fluorite	Malachite	Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel

Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Braunite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chlorargyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Hausmannite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hübnerite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Mottramite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stolzite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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 Al Au Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Hg K Mn Mo O Pb S Si V W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Braunite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Copper Corundum Descloizite
Fluorite Malachite Mica None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel

24 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
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	70	67.2	1	143916	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	70	67.2	1	143854	5516
Braunite ()*	Braunite	Mn²⁺Mn³⁺₆O₈(SiO₄)	70	67.2	1	143792	483
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	70	67.2	1	143903	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	70	67.2	10	143831,143832,143840,143847,143849,143853,143854,143897,143898,143905	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	70	67.2	2	143775,143796	1382
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	70	67.2	1	143838	2600
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	70	67.2	2	143851,143854	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	70	67.2	11	143831,143832,143840,143847,143849,143853,143854,143897,143899,143905,143916	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	70	67.2	14	143838,143851,143854,143857,143858,143859,143860,143861,143898,143899,143901,143903,143907,143926	30554
Hausmannite ()*	Spinel	Mn²⁺Mn³⁺₂O₄	70	67.2	1	143792	350
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	70	67.2	1	143832	14640
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	70	67.2	2	143830,143854	469
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	70	67.2	1	143854	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	70	67.2	1	143878	12537
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	70	67.2	1	143903	362
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	70	67.2	2	143852,143854	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	70	67.2	9	143832,143847,143849,143853,143854,143878,143897,143898,143905	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	70	67.2	1	143773	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	70	67.2	9	143830,143847,143849,143851,143854,143855,143901,143902,143908	4894
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	70	67.2	1	143916	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	70	67.2	7	143831,143832,143840,143847,143854,143897,143905	21482
Stolzite ()*	Scheelite	Pb(WO₄)	70	67.2	1	143851	156
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	70	67.2	1	143903	1655

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
	Giersdorf_00000355	70	67.2	68.6±1.4	K-Ar				UAKA-77-50						31250	Arivaca District (Las Guijas District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA	Arivaca District	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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