Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Santo Niño Mine Area, San Antonio Canyon, Washington Camp-Duquesne District, Patagonia District, Patagonia Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 66
Youngest recorded age at locality: 56

mindat Locality ID: 53936
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-53936.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Santo Niño Mine Area, San Antonio Canyon, Washington Camp-Duquesne District, Patagonia District, Patagonia Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Santo Nino Mine (Santo Niño Mine; North Santo Nino; North Santo Wind; Brooks; Santa Maria Mo Mine)
Unnamed Prospect

Latitude: 31°21'40"N
Longitude: 110°43'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.361111111111,-110.7175

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.

Brookite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Coronadite	Feldspar	Mica	Molybdenite	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Scheelite

Akaganeite ()*	Anatase ()*	Brookite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chamosite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	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: Al C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Ni O Pb S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Mo O Pb Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Brookite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Coronadite Feldspar Mica Molybdenite None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rutile Scheelite

13 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
Akaganeite ()*	Coronadite	(Fe³⁺,Ni²⁺)₈(OH,O)₁₆Cl_1.25·nH₂O	66	56	1	146897	63
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	65	65	0		2162
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	65	65	0		700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	66	56	1	146896	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	66	56	1	146896	27198
Chamosite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Fe²⁺,Mg,Al,Fe³⁺)₆(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH,O)₈	66	56	1	146896	577
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	65	65	2	146896,146897	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	66	56	1	146896	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	66	56	1	146896	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	66	56	2	146896,146897	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	66	56	1	146896	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	66	56	1	146896	5614
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	65	65	0		1655

2 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
	sedznpb-00503	66	56	Paleocene							Yes				3384	Washington Camp-Duquesne District, Patagonia District, Patagonia Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA	Washington Camp	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252
	Mo-00271	65	65										Molybdenite, Wulfenite	Mo	53936	Santo Niño Mine Area, San Antonio Canyon, Washington Camp-Duquesne District, Patagonia District, Patagonia Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA	Santo Nino Mine	Corn (1975)	10.2113/gsecongeo.70.8.1437	EG70_1437

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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