Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Dragoon District (Golden Rule District), Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 76.1
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 32715
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-32715.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dragoon District (Golden Rule District), Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Bill's Cut Prospect
Buena Vista And Horse Fall Mines
Golden Rule Mine (Old Terrible Mine; Golden Eagle Mine; Santa Lucia Mine)
Hubbard Mine (Democrat & Sherman Mine; Dragoon Zinc Mine; Dragoon Zinc-Lead Mine; Rainbow Mine)
Senecia Mine (Senika Mine; Seneca Mine; Lewis Group)

Latitude: 31°57'29"N
Longitude: 109°59'37"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.958055555556,-109.99361111111

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.

Alunite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore
Kaolinite	Linarite	Malachite	Mica	None	Plancheite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Bornite ()*	Bromargyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Gold ()*	Hawleyite ()*	Hematite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Linarite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Plancheite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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 Au Br C Ca Cd Cu Fe H K Mg O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe H O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore
Kaolinite Linarite Malachite Mica None Plancheite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	76.1	72.1	1	136797	2734
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	76.1	72.1	1	136797	5516
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	76.1	72.1	1	136797	227
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	76.1	72.1	1	136797	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	76.1	72.1	1	136797	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	76.1	72.1	1	136797	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	76.1	72.1	1	136797	4165
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	76.1	72.1	1	136797	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	76.1	0	2	136797,136799	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	76.1	72.1	0		7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	76.1	72.1	1	136797	30554
Hawleyite ()*	Sphalerite	CdS	76.1	0	1	136796	62
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	76.1	72.1	1	136797	14640
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	76.1	72.1	1	136797	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	76.1	72.1	1	136797	5591
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	76.1	72.1	1	136797	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	76.1	72.1	1	136797	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	76.1	72.1	1	136797	17380
Plancheite ()*	Plancheite	Cu₈(Si₄O₁₁)₂(OH)₄·H₂O	76.1	72.1	1	136797	74
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	76.1	0	2	136797,136799	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	76.1	72.1	1	136797	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	76.1	0	3	136796,136797,136799	21482

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_554	Near-surface occurrence. Recently forming oxalate associated with cave deposits, in Cochise County, Arizona.

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Michelle_554	0	0	Recent		Age of whewellite mineralization	high				Yes		Whewellite		15570	Cochise Co., Arizona, USA	Cochise County	Hofmann and Bernasconi (1998)	10.1016/S0009-2541(98)00043-6	CG149_127	Described as "recent cave deposits."
	Giersdorf_00000350	76.1	72.1	74.1±2	K-Ar				UAKA-74-24						32719	Golden Rule Mine (Old Terrible Mine; Golden Eagle Mine; Santa Lucia Mine), Dragoon District (Golden Rule District), Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA	Golden Rule Mine	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201

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