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:
Tambo Del Cortaderal, Arequipa, Peru

mindat Locality ID: 285596
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-285596.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tambo Del Cortaderal, Arequipa, Peru": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Cerro Verde

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.

Atacamite	Brochantite	None

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: Cl Cu H O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Atacamite Brochantite None

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Atacamite ()*	Brochantite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃			1	96025	544
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆			1	96025	1633

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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