Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mockingbird Gap District, Salinas Peak District, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 50817
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50817.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mockingbird Gap District, Salinas Peak District, Sierra Co., New Mexico, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Damon Group
Independence Group
Mockingbird Gap Mine

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Allophane	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Copper	Corundum	Fluorite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Hematite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Malachite ()*	Quartz ()*
Smithsonite ()*	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: Al Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Aragonite Baryte Calcite Copper Corundum Fluorite Malachite None Not in a structural group
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	247169	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	247170	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	247168,247169	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	247169,247170	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	247169	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	247170	5707
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	247170	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	247170	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	247170	2970
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	247168,247170	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	247168,247169	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	247170	14640
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	247168	1066
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	247170	12537
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	247169	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2	247168,247169	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	247169	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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