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Santa Lucia-Matahambre district, Pinar del Río Province, Cubai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Santa Lucia-Matahambre district | District |
| Pinar del Río Province | Province |
| Cuba | Country |
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Largest Settlements:
| Place | Population |
|---|---|
| Minas de Matahambre | 34,419 (2015) |
The San Cayetano Formation is an assemblage of terrigenous sedimentary rocks, predominantly quartzo-feldspathic sandstones, siltstones, and argillites estimated to be approximately 3,000 m in thickness. The estimated thickness may be suspect since the entire formation is characterized by numerous overthrust slices. Of limited but widespread distribution within the sandstone-argillic are beds of chert, limestone, and dolomite, as well as thick black shale units which host the Zn-Pb deposits. The presence of ripple marks and crossbedding in the arenite suggests an estuarine, possibly deltaic, environment. That interpretation may be supported by the presence of the dolomite and chert layers interbedded with the siltstones and argillites. The black shales, on the other hand, are characteristic of local deeper sub-basins. The tectonics of Cuba and concluded that the terrigenous rocks, which include the San Cayetano Formation and the overlying Esperanza Formation, were deposited in a marginal basin floored by thin granite crust that passed northward into the Bahaman platform. The Cretaceous-Paleogene collisional event referred to above was also responsible for thrusting the Esperanza Formation over the San Cayetano Formation and the latter over the Paleogene sedimentary unit.
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Rock Types Recorded
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Copper | 1.AA.05 | Cu |
| ⓘ | Native Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| ⓘ | Native Silver | 1.AA.05 | Ag |
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
| ⓘ | Hessite | 2.BA.60 | Ag2Te |
| ⓘ | Covellite | 2.CA.05a | CuS |
| ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
| ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ | Wurtzite ? | 2.CB.45 | (Zn,Fe)S |
| ⓘ | Pyrrhotite | 2.CC.10 | Fe1-xS |
| ⓘ | Clausthalite | 2.CD.10 | PbSe |
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| ⓘ | Kawazulite | 2.DC.05 | Bi2Te2Se |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Cobaltite | 2.EB.25 | CoAsS |
| ⓘ | Bohdanowiczite | 2.JA.20 | AgBiSe2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Magnetite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
| ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
| ⓘ | Siderite | 5.AB.05 | FeCO3 |
| ⓘ | Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| ⓘ | var. Iron-bearing Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | Ca(Mg,Fe)(CO3)2 |
| Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
| ⓘ | Anhydrite ? | 7.AD.30 | CaSO4 |
| ⓘ | Anglesite | 7.AD.35 | PbSO4 |
| ⓘ | Baryte | 7.AD.35 | BaSO4 |
| ⓘ | Jarosite ? | 7.BC.10 | KFe3+3(SO4)2(OH)6 |
| ⓘ | Plumbojarosite | 7.BC.10 | Pb0.5Fe3+3(SO4)2(OH)6 |
| Group 8 - Phosphates, Arsenates and Vanadates | |||
| ⓘ | Beudantite | 8.BL.05 | PbFe3+3(AsO4)(SO4)(OH)6 |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Chlorite Group' | - | |
| ⓘ | 'Serpentine Subgroup' | - | D3[Si2O5](OH)4 |
| ⓘ | 'Apatite' | - | Ca5(PO4)3A |
List of minerals for each chemical element
Fossils
There are 6 fossil localities from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.These data are provided on an experimental basis and are taken from external databases. Mindat.org has no control currently over the accuracy of these data.
| Occurrences | 6 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youngest Fossil Listed | 0.13 Ma (Pleistocene) | ||||||
| Oldest Fossil Listed | 152 Ma (Late Jurassic) | ||||||
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| Fossils from Region | Click here to show the list. | ||||||
| Fossil Localities | Click to show 3 fossil localities |
Localities in this Region
- Pinar del Río Province
- Santa Lucia-Matahambre district
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Matahambre Mine, Santa Lucia-Matahambre district, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba