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Locality Name:
Redrock District, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 34239
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-34239.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Redrock District, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 35
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 27

Number of Child Localities: 21
Child Localities:
Blue Bird Mine (De La Ossa And Lemas Mine; Blue Bird Group; Townsend Plan)
Canary Yellow Prospect
Candelerio Peak
Copper 1 And 3 Claims (Copper 1 & 3 Claims; Dunham Copper Claims)
Copper Mountain Prospect (Power's Prospect)
Durham Copper Claims
Eagle Deposit
Frisco Fair Mine Group
Hale Prospect No. 3
Huachuca Mountains Northwestern Foothills
Jensen Group (Jensen & Hale Prospects)
Meadow Valley Flat
Mount Hughes
Pyeatt Ranch
Redbank Prospect (Four Metals Prospect)
Redrock Canyon
RJ Prospect
Sulfide Mine (Sulfide Prospect)
Sulphide Prospect
Townsend Plan Mine
Yellow Bird Prospect

Latitude: 31°31'21"N
Longitude: 110°35'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.5225,-110.58694444444
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Ba C Ca 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: 
AcanthiteAmorphousAragoniteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteCopperCorundumMalachiteNone
Not in a structural groupPyriteRocksaltSpinelTetrahedrite

19 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Azurite  (*)Baryte  (*)Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)
Chalcopyrite  (*)Chlorargyrite  (*)Cuprite  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)
Hematite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Malachite  (*)Opal  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Silver  (*)Smithsonite  (*)Tenorite  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S3146937,146946,1469472793
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)25146931,146936,146946,146948,1469515509
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)114695111547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)114694627770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)11469464979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS23146931,146937,14694727198
Chlorargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgCl3146937,146946,1469471382
Cuprite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu2O2146931,1469362970
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS114694724243
Gold  (*)CopperAu114694730554
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O32146946,14694814640
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4114693714899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)25146931,146936,146946,146948,14695112537
Opal  (*)AmorphousSiO2·nH2O3146926,146933,1469452994
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23146931,146937,14694739462
Silver  (*)CopperAg11469475186
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)11469462473
Tenorite  (*)NoneCuO11469371101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1311469365317


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