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Locality Name:
Tumby Bay, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 159050
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-159050.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tumby Bay, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
A.E. Winckel Prospect (Winckel Quarry)
Burrawing Mine (Mortlocks)
Carrow Deposit
Iron Mount Mine (Iron Mount Magnetite Prospect)
Lipsons Cove Copper Mine (Lipson's Cove Mine)
Mount Liverpool Mine
New Mount Liverpool Copper Mine
Pillaworta Mine
Port Lincoln Copper Mine
Stokes Mine
Tumby Bay Magnesite (Magnesite Syndicate)
Tumby Bay Mine (Wheal Bessie)
Tumby Bay Talc Mine
Tumby Manganese

Latitude: 34°18'17"S
Longitude: 136°4'5"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -34.304722222222,136.06805555556
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Mg O S Si 

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllophaneAmorphousArsenicCalciteChalcopyriteClayCopperCorundumCovelliteKaolinite
MalachiteNoneNot in a structural groupQuartzSpinelTalc

19 IMA Minerals at location:
Azurite  (*)Bismuth  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcocite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)
Chrysocolla  (*)Copper  (*)Covellite  (*)Cuprite  (*)Dolomite  (*)
Graphite  (*)Hematite  (*)Kaolinite  (*)Magnesite  (*)Magnetite  (*)
Malachite  (*)Opal  (*)Quartz  (*)Talc  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)2611877,11880,11881,11882,11884,118875509
Bismuth  (*)ArsenicBi1118771966
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)211884,1188727770
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S411880,11882,11884,118875707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2411880,11882,11884,1188727198
Chrysocolla  (*)Allophane(Cu2-xAlx)H2-xSi2O5(OH)4·nH2O1118773531
Copper  (*)CopperCu1118773846
Covellite  (*)CovelliteCuS1118874165
Cuprite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu2O211882,118872970
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)21118889895
Graphite  (*)NoneC1118862812
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3211879,1188514640
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)41118765591
Magnesite  (*)CalciteMg(CO3)211885,118861487
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4211878,1187914899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2611877,11880,11881,11882,11884,1188712537
Opal  (*)AmorphousSiO2·nH2O02994
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2511881,11882,11884,11885,1188761156
Talc  (*)Clay TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)21118883337


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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