Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Santa Rosa Pit (Santa Rosa Mine), Cerro Verde Mine, Uchumayo District, Arequipa Province, Arequipa, Peru

Oldest recorded age at locality: 62.5
Youngest recorded age at locality: 61.1

mindat Locality ID: 55598
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-55598.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Santa Rosa Pit (Santa Rosa Mine), Cerro Verde Mine, Uchumayo District, Arequipa Province, Arequipa, Peru": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

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.

Calcite	None

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: C Mn O

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Mn O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite None

1 IMA Minerals at location:

Rhodochrosite ()*

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
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	62.5	61.1	0		1711

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
	PorphCu-00119	62.5	61.1	61.8±0.7									Alunite, Anhydrite, Antlerite, Bornite, Brochantite, Celadonite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Cubanite, Enargite, Ferberite, Galena, Goethite, Hematite, Ilmenite, Kaolinite, Luzonite, Mackinawite, Magnetite, Malachite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite	Cu	55598	Santa Rosa Pit (Santa Rosa Mine), Cerro Verde Mine, Uchumayo District, Arequipa Province, Arequipa, Peru	Cerro Verde/Santa Rosa	Singer et al. (2008)		USGSOFR2008_1155

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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