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Locality Name:
Sonoita Prospect, Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 68.4
Youngest recorded age at locality: 65.4

mindat Locality ID: 59057
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-59057.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sonoita Prospect, Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 31°32'9"N
Longitude: 110°46'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.535833333333,-110.77333333333

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.

Aragonite	Copper	None	Rutile	Scheelite

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 Au C Mn Mo O Pb

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Au C Mn Mo O Pb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Copper None Rutile Scheelite

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Cerussite ()*	Gold ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Silver ()*	Wulfenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	68.4	65.4	4979
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	68.4	65.4	30554
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	68.4	65.4	3106
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	68.4	65.4	5186
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	68.4	65.4	1655

1 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
	Giersdorf_00000357	68.4	65.4	66.9±1.5	K-Ar	Age of mineralization of quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration assemblage in Triassic volcanic rock			UAKA-73-158		Yes				34320	Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA	Mount Wrightston Quad.	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201

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