Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Oro Blanco District (Ruby District), Oro Blanco Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 32066
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-32066.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Oro Blanco District (Ruby District), Oro Blanco Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 122
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 103

Number of Child Localities: 59
Child Localities:
Alaska Mine (Allacondo Mine)
Andrews Mine
Annie Laurie Prospect (Annie Laurie Claims; Bright Uranium Prospect)
Apache Mine (Big Apache Mine; Big Monument Mine; Audish Claims)
Argonaut Reefs Prospect
Arizona Blue Fire Opal Claim (Scorpio Claims)
Bartlett Mountain
Big Lode Mine (Silver Top MIne)
Big Three Group (Big Three Prospect)
Black Copper Queen Prospect
Black Diamond Prospect
Brown Bird Mine Group (Blue Wing Mine)
California Gulch Placers (Oro Blanco Viejo Placers; Gold Bar Placers)
Commodore Mine
Copper Mountain Mine (Black Peak Mine Group)
Corral Nuevo (Nuevo Corral)
Eureka-Mabel Mine
Franco-American Mine
Gold Crown Prospect
Gold Hill & Blue Ribbon Mine Group
Grand View Prospect
Grubstake Mine (Scribner Mine; Scriver Mine)
Hanks And Yanks Prospect
Hazel Mine
Hell's Gate Agate Marble Occurrence
Holden Mine
Horn Gold Mine (Arizona Group)
Indian Mine (Indio Mine)
JB Group Prospect
King Midas Prospect
Little Doe Mine
Loma De Manganese Mine
Lone Star Prospect
Louise Mine
Lucky Shot Mine Group
Missouri Mine
Moonlight Prospect (Georgia Belle Prospect)
Near Sky Line Prospect
Never Sweat Mine
North Carolina Prospect
Old Soldier Mine
Oro Blanco Area Mines (Oro Blanco Mine Group)
Oro Escondido Prospect (Doran's Folly)
Peelstick Mine
Purple Cow Prospect
Rachel Group
Ready Relief Prospect
Rubiana Mine Group
Ruby
Ruby Patent
Santa Clara Prospect
Silver Crown #2 Mine
Silver Strike Mine (Caviglia Group)
Smuggler Gulch
Sonora Prospect
Southern Pacific Prospect
Susana Mine
Suzi And Cheri Prospect
Union Mine

Latitude: 31°27'7"N
Longitude: 111°15'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.451944444444,-111.26305555556

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	Allophane	Amorphous	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcanthite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum
Covellite	Fluorite	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile
Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcanthite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Covellite ()*
Cuprite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Kasolite ()*	Malachite ()*	Metatorbernite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*

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 K Mn O P Pb S Sb Si U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Amorphous Baryte Calcite Chalcanthite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum
Covellite Fluorite Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

28 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	146499	2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	146510,146574	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	146510,146583	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6	146493,146498,146510,146529,146565,146574	27770
Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcanthite	Cu(SO₄)·5H₂O	2	146586,146589	925
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	146596	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	16	146493,146498,146499,146500,146532,146533,146534,146554,146559,146563,146574,146575,146577,146582,146583,146596	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	2	146554,146596	1382
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	146565	3531
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	3	146575,146583,146596	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	146583	2970
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	146493	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	16	146493,146498,146499,146500,146510,146532,146533,146534,146559,146563,146574,146575,146577,146582,146583,146596	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	14	146506,146507,146508,146543,146544,146545,146547,146548,146557,146565,146578,146580,146583,146592	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	146493,146579,146589	14640
Kasolite ()*	None	Pb(UO₂)(SiO₄)·H₂O	1	146493	198
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4	146537,146554,146561,146596	12537
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	146493	443
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	7	146498,146547,146554,146577,146578,146580,146605	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	146496	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	26	146493,146498,146499,146500,146537,146554,146559,146561,146565,146574,146577,146578,146579,146580,146582,146583,146587,146588,146589,146590,146591,146594,146597,146598,146599,146605	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	146529	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	146511,146565,146569	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	3	146498,146512,146596	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	15	146493,146498,146499,146500,146510,146532,146533,146534,146559,146574,146575,146577,146582,146583,146596	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	8	146498,146510,146559,146574,146575,146582,146583,146599	5317
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	146493	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	146493	890

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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