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Locality Name:
Ojo Caliente No. 2 District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 33175
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-33175.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ojo Caliente No. 2 District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Apache Warm Springs Beryllium Deposit
Cocar Prospect
Taylor Prospect
Unnamed Prospect NMSO0511
Unnamed Prospect NMSO0512
Unnamed Prospect NMSO0513
Unnamed Prospect NMSO0514

Latitude: 33°32'34"N
Longitude: 107°35'9"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.542777777778,-107.58583333333

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.

Allophane	Alunite	Aragonite	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote
Fluorite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Titanite	Tridymite
Zircon

Alunite ()*	Anatase ()*	Azurite ()*	Bertrandite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Diaspore ()*	Epidote ()*
Fluorite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Jarosite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Titanite ()*	Tridymite ()*	Zircon ()*

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: Al Au Be C Ca Cu F Fe H K O Pb S Si Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Au Cu S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Alunite Aragonite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Diaspore Epidote
Fluorite Kaolinite Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Titanite Tridymite
Zircon

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	247418	966
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	247418	2162
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	247420	5509
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	1	247418	606
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	247419,247422	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	247420	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	0		5707
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	3	247420,247421,247424	3531
Diaspore ()*	Diaspore	AlO(OH)	1	247418	481
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	6	247419,247420,247421,247422,247423,247424	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	3	247419,247421,247422	9617
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	0		30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	247418	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	247420	1689
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	247418	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	247418	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4	247419,247420,247421,247424	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	247418	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6	247418,247419,247421,247422,247423,247424	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	247418,247419,247420,247421,247422,247423,247424	61156
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	247418	4899
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	247418	458
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	247418	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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