Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Descubridora Mine (La Cadena), Boruquillas, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico

mindat Locality ID: 10561
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-10561.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Descubridora Mine (La Cadena), Boruquillas, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico": 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.

Adelite	Aragonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group
Tetrahedrite

Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Conichalcite ()*
Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Delafossite ()*	Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*
Malachite ()*	Tenorite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As C Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Adelite Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Diaspore Malachite None Not in a structural group
Tetrahedrite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Conichalcite ()*	Adelite	CaCu(AsO₄)(OH)	363
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2970
Delafossite ()*	None	Cu¹⁺Fe³⁺O₂	144
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	12537
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...