Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Hillsboro, Hillsboro District, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 20
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 3983
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3983.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hillsboro, Hillsboro District, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Percha Creek
Petroglyph Mine (Miners Dream Mine)
Warm Springs Canyon

Latitude: 32°55'31"N
Longitude: 107°32'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.925277777778,-107.54166666667

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.

Amorphous	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Coronadite	Descloizite	Diaspore	Fluorite	None
Not in a structural group	Phenakite	Pseudobrookite	Quartz	Raspite	Rocksalt	Scheelite

Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Cryptomelane ()*
Descloizite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Kentrolite ()*	Melanotekite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Mottramite ()*	Opal ()*
Pseudobrookite ()*	Quartz ()*	Raspite ()*	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: As Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Mn Mo O Pb S Si Ti V W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Coronadite Descloizite Diaspore Fluorite None
Not in a structural group Phenakite Pseudobrookite Quartz Raspite Rocksalt Scheelite

21 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
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			1	247031	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	247031	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			3	247028,247029,247031	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)			2	247029,247031	4979
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆			1	247030	599
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)			2	247029,247031	378
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			2	247029,247031	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	247029	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	247031	7437
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O			1	247031	1689
Kentrolite ()*	None	Pb₂Mn³⁺₂O₂(Si₂O₇)			1	247028	22
Melanotekite ()*	None	Pb₂Fe³⁺₂O₂(Si₂O₇)			1	247029	22
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl			2	247029,247031	1107
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)			1	247031	362
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O			1	247028	2994
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	20	0	1	247032	164
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			3	247028,247029,247031	61156
Raspite ()*	Raspite	Pb(WO₄)			1	247031	26
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl			3	247028,247029,247031	605
Willemite ()*	Phenakite	Zn₂SiO₄			1	247031	303
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄			3	247028,247029,247031	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
	NAVDAT-34232	20	0	10±10					34232						248136	Warm Springs Canyon, Hillsboro, Hillsboro District, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050530	Hillsboro, Hillsboro District, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA	https://rruff.info/R050530
R060245	Percha Creek, Hillsboro, Hillsboro District, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA	https://rruff.info/R060245

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