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:
San Luis Mts, 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: 34574
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-34574.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "San Luis Mts, Arivaca District (Las Guijas District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Ajax Mine Group
Border Mine Group (Tunquepata Mine; Tunquita Mine)
Coñejo Mine (Conejo Mine; Cottontail Mine; Creese Mine; Benendo Mine; Brenda Mine; Brendo Mine)
Contact Mine (Old Bucket Mine; Rusty Red Mine; Tom Rigg Mine)
Easter Mine Group
Edwards Mine (Mother Lode Mine; Mother Lode Group)
Long Shot Mine Group
M.C.M. Mine Group (MCM Mine; Guadalupe Group)
San Luis Wash
Silver Crown Mine
Wilbur Canyon

Latitude: 31°32'5"N
Longitude: 111°21'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.534722222222,-111.36305555556

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	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Descloizite	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite

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: Au C Ca Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S V W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Chalcopyrite Copper Descloizite None Pyrite Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Mottramite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	70	67.2	1	143903	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	70	67.2	3	143897,143898,143905	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	70	67.2	3	143897,143899,143905	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	70	67.2	5	143898,143899,143901,143903,143907	30554
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	70	67.2	1	143903	362
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	70	67.2	3	143897,143898,143905	39462
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	70	67.2	3	143901,143902,143908	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	70	67.2	2	143897,143905	21482
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		Yes				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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