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Locality Name:
Mayarí-Baracoa Belt, Holguín Province, Cuba

Oldest recorded age at locality: 130
Youngest recorded age at locality: 92

mindat Locality ID: 39099
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39099.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mayarí-Baracoa Belt, Holguín Province, Cuba": 38
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 32

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Caledonia Deposit
Casimba Deposit
Estrella De Mayarı Deposit
Estrella Deposit
Guarina Deposit
Juanita Deposit
Mayarí District
Moa-Baracoa District
Monte Bueno Deposit
Prudencio Deposit
Sagua De Tánamo District
Victoria Deposit

Latitude: 20°35'26"N
Longitude: 74°48'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 20.590555555556,-74.813611111111

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.

Amphibole	Auricupride	Baddeleyite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Cubanite
Diaspore	Garnet	Millerite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pentlandite	Perovskite	Pyrite
Pyroxene	Rutile	Serpentine	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Titanite	Ullmannite	Valleriite	Wurtzite	Zircon
Zirconolite

Asbolane ()*	Awaruite ()*	Baddeleyite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chamosite ()*	Chromite ()*	Clinochlore ()*
Copper ()*	Cubanite ()*	Cuproiridsite ()*	Edenite ()*	Enstatite ()*
Erlichmanite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Gibbsite ()*	Godlevskite ()*	Goethite ()*
Heazlewoodite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hollingworthite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Irarsite ()*
Iridium ()*	Laurite ()*	Lithiophorite ()*	Lizardite ()*	Maghemite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Maucherite ()*	Millerite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Orcelite ()*
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Rutile ()*
Sperrylite ()*	Titanite ()*	Uvarovite ()*	Valleriite ()*	Zircon ()*
Zirconolite ()*

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: Al As C Ca Co Cr Cu Fe H Ir Li Mg Mn Na Ni O Os Pt Rh Ru S Si Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Fe Ni S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Auricupride Baddeleyite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Copper Corundum Cubanite
Diaspore Garnet Millerite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Olivine Pentlandite Perovskite Pyrite
Pyroxene Rutile Serpentine Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Titanite Ullmannite Valleriite Wurtzite Zircon
Zirconolite

46 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
Asbolane ()*	Not in a structural group	Mn⁴⁺(O,OH)₂·(Co,Ni,Mg,Ca)_x(OH)_2x·nH₂O			1	45996	143
Awaruite ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Ni₃Fe			2	46000,46004	166
Baddeleyite ()*	Baddeleyite	ZrO₂	130	92	1	45988	238
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄			1	46004	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	130	92	1	45985	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			1	46004	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	130	92	3	45987,45988,46004	27198
Chamosite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Fe²⁺,Mg,Al,Fe³⁺)₆(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH,O)₈	130	92	1	45988	577
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	130	92	11	45980,45985,45988,45992,45996,45997,46000,46002,46004,46007,46011	3902
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	130	92	1	45985	1756
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu			1	46004	3846
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	130	92	2	45987,45988	802
Cuproiridsite ()*	Spinel	Cu(Ir³⁺Ir⁴⁺)S₄			1	46004	31
Edenite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂Mg₅(Si₇Al)O₂₂(OH)₂			1	46002	160
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆			1	45996	944
Erlichmanite ()*	Pyrite	OsS₂			1	45980	110
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)			1	45996	1188
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃			2	45996,45997	504
Godlevskite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	130	92	0		40
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			2	45996,45997	7437
Heazlewoodite ()*	None	Ni₃S₂			1	46004	205
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			2	45996,45997	14640
Hollingworthite ()*	Ullmannite	RhAsS			1	46002	119
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	130	92	1	45988	5433
Irarsite ()*	Pyrite	IrAsS			4	45980,46000,46002,46004	154
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir			2	46002,46007	162
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂	130	92	6	45980,45988,46000,46002,46004,46007	226
Lithiophorite ()*	None	(Al,Li)(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂(OH)₂			2	45996,45997	210
Lizardite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄			2	45982,45997	359
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄			2	45996,45997	229
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			2	45996,45997	14899
Maucherite ()*	None	Ni₁₁As₈			1	46011	161
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS			3	46000,46004,46011	1066
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O			1	45984	471
Orcelite ()*	None	Ni_5-xAs₂ (x = 0.25)			1	46000	36
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	130	92	0		767
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	130	92	2	45988,46004	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	130	92	2	45987,46004	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	130	92	2	45987,45988	9056
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	130	92	2	45985,45988	5614
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	130	92	1	45988	337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	130	92	2	45985,45988	4899
Uvarovite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Cr₂(SiO₄)₃	130	92	1	45985	212
Valleriite ()*	Valleriite	2[(Fe,Cu)S]·1.53[(Mg,Al)(OH)₂]	130	92	1	45988	237
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	130	92	1	45988	5251
Zirconolite ()*	Zirconolite	(Ca,Y)Zr(Ti,Mg,Al)₂O₇	130	92	1	45988	140

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
	podchrome-00572	130	92	Lower Cretaceous (125±5 to 96±4 Ma)										Cr	203393	Potosi Mine, Barracanao (Baracoa), Moa-Baracoa District, Mayarí-Baracoa Belt, Holguín Province, Cuba	Potosi	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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