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Locality Name:
Red Hill District, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 33111
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-33111.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Red Hill District, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico, USA": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Athena Mine
Black Streak Prospect
Crooms Prospect
Gillespie Mine
Lucky Prospect
Peace Prospect
Plains Prospect
Red Hill Mine
Ridge Prospect (Hoggett Prospect; Broaddus Prospect)
Rusty Ruthlee Prospect
Silver Night Mine
U-Bar Fault Prospects
Volcano Prospect
Wilson Prospect
Winkler Anticline Prospect

Latitude: 31°40'4"N
Longitude: 108°39'43"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.667777777778,-108.66194444444

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	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Coronadite	Descloizite	Fluorite
Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Phenakite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Turquoise

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Cryptomelane ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hollandite ()*	Malachite ()*
Mimetite ()*	Mottramite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Romanèchite ()*	Rosasite ()*	Silver ()*	Turquoise ()*
Vanadinite ()*	Willemite ()*	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 As Au Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Mn Mo O P Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Au

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Coronadite Descloizite Fluorite
Malachite None Not in a structural group Phenakite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Turquoise

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	245590	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	245594	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	245601	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	245592	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	7	245587,245588,245589,245591,245593,245596,245601	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	245594	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	245601	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	245590	1382
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	1	245592	599
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	7	245587,245592,245595,245598,245599,245600,245601	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	245594	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	0		30554
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	245594	1689
Hollandite ()*	Coronadite	Ba(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	1	245592	243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	245601	12537
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1	245594	1107
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	1	245594	362
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	245601	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	5	245588,245591,245593,245595,245596	3106
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	245594	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	245587,245588,245591,245593,245594,245595,245600,245601	61156
Romanèchite ()*	None	(Ba,H₂O)₂(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)₅O₁₀	1	245595	312
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	245594	454
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	245590	5186
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	245597	484
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	1	245594	605
Willemite ()*	Phenakite	Zn₂SiO₄	1	245594	303
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	245594	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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