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Locality Name:
Salero Area, Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 58858
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-58858.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Salero Area, Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 46
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 33

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Alto Gulch
Alto Hill
Apache Gulch
Bond Canyon
Bradford Mine
Georgia Claim
Grosvenor Hills
M. And S. Claim
Rosario Mine (Rosario Group Of Claims)
Royal Blue Mine (Royal Blue Extension Mine)
Salero Hill (Salero Mountain)
Toluachi Group Of Claims (Toluachi Group; Bonanza Tunnel; Tennantite Claim)
Trenton Gulch
Vulcan Mine Group

Latitude: 31°36'1"N
Longitude: 110°51'44"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.600277777778,-110.86222222222

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.

Acanthite	Allophane	Amorphous	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper
Corundum	Covellite	Fluorite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Bromargyrite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*
Hematite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tenorite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Uraninite ()*

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: Ag Al As Ba Br C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Mo O P Pb S Sb Si U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper
Corundum Covellite Fluorite Kaolinite Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

36 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	7	147111,147113,147124,147132,147141,147146,147148	2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	5	147129,147132,147141,147146,147148	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	5	147111,147113,147126,147151,147152	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	147109	5516
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	2	147137,147148	227
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	147113,147128,147148	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	5	147124,147129,147135,147136,147137	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	7	147111,147112,147113,147121,147129,147132,147148	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	18	147109,147111,147113,147118,147121,147122,147123,147124,147126,147128,147132,147139,147141,147146,147148,147151,147152,147153	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	3	147137,147146,147148	1382
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	3	147129,147132,147141	3531
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	147111	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	3	147109,147132,147148	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	147111	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	21	147109,147111,147113,147118,147121,147122,147123,147124,147126,147128,147132,147136,147137,147138,147139,147141,147146,147148,147149,147151,147152	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	4	147113,147118,147141,147151	14640
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	147111	1066
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	147113	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	8	147109,147113,147124,147129,147132,147141,147146,147148	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	147113	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	147148	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	147133	2994
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	1	147148	733
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	13	147109,147111,147113,147122,147123,147126,147129,147132,147139,147141,147151,147152,147153	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	147146	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	147109,147111,147126,147133	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	147148	1711
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	147148	969
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	147148	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	147137	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	147111	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	13	147109,147111,147113,147121,147123,147126,147128,147138,147139,147141,147149,147151,147152	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	147148	1803
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	2	147112,147113	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	5	147111,147113,147126,147141,147148	5317
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	2	147111,147113	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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