Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Comfort Claim, Mahoney Mines Area, Tres Hermanas District, Tres Hermanas Mts, Luna Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 34501
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-34501.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Comfort Claim, Mahoney Mines Area, Tres Hermanas District, Tres Hermanas Mts, Luna Co., New Mexico, USA": 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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Calcite	Fornacite	None	Phenakite	Scheelite	Wollastonite

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: As C Ca Cl Cu H Mo O Pb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As C Ca Cl Cu H Mo O Pb Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Calcite Fornacite None Phenakite Scheelite Wollastonite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Molybdofornacite ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Willemite ()*	Wollastonite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4979
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1107
Molybdofornacite ()*	Fornacite	CuPb₂(MoO₄)(AsO₄)(OH)	17
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2473
Willemite ()*	Phenakite	Zn₂SiO₄	303
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1247
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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