Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Madera Prospect (Madera Claims), Madera Peak Area, Pinal Mountains District, Pinal Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2000
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 56520
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-56520.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Madera Prospect (Madera Claims), Madera Peak Area, Pinal Mountains District, Pinal Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 33°19'58"N
Longitude: 110°53'35"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.332777777778,-110.89305555556

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.

Chalcopyrite	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite

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: Cu Fe H Mo O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cu Fe H Mo O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Molybdenite None Pyrite

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2000	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2000	27198
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	2000	345
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2000	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2000	39462

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-51584	2000	0	1000±1000					51584						56520	Madera Prospect (Madera Claims), Madera Peak Area, Pinal Mountains District, Pinal Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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