Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Hell Canyon, Valencia Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 50462
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50462.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hell Canyon, Valencia Co., New Mexico, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Cerro Del Oro Mines
Fisk Mine
Star Mine

Latitude: 34°53'52"N
Longitude: 106°25'19"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.897777777778,-106.42194444444

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	Corundum	Fluorite	Molybdenite	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: As C Ca Cl Cu F Fe Mo O Pb S Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Cu Fe Mo O S Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Calcite Corundum Fluorite Molybdenite None

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcocite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Hematite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Siderite ()*	Strontianite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	0		5707
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	247718	9617
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0		14640
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1	247718	1107
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	0		5800
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	0		6417
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	0		589

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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