Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Redrock Canyon, Redrock District, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 59066
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-59066.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Redrock Canyon, Redrock District, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
East Of Red Rock Canyon
La Plata Mine (Black Ace Mine)
New York Mine (Jensen Mine; Bingo Claims; New York Claims)
Powers Prospect (Copper Mountain Prospect)

Latitude: 31°28'53"N
Longitude: 110°39'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.481388888889,-110.66416666667

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	Amorphous	Aragonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Rocksalt

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chlorargyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Malachite ()*
Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*

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 Au C Ca Cl Cu Fe H O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amorphous Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Malachite None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Rocksalt

14 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	2	146946,146947	2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	146946,146948	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	146946	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	146946	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	146947	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	2	146946,146947	1382
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	146947	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	146947	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	146946,146948	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	146946,146948	12537
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	146945	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	146947	39462
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	146947	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	146946	2473

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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