Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Copley, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 630
Youngest recorded age at locality: 630

mindat Locality ID: 16968
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-16968.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Copley, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Diamond Jubilee Mine
Mount Coffin Mines
Mountain Of Light Mine

Latitude: 30°32'30"S
Longitude: 138°30'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.541666666667,138.51611111111

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	Atacamite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Digenite	Kaolinite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Quartz	Volborthite

Atacamite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Cuprite ()*	Digenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnesite ()*
Malachite ()*	Paratacamite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Tenorite ()*
Volborthite ()*

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 C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mg O S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Mg O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Atacamite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Digenite Kaolinite Malachite None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Quartz Volborthite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	630	630	1	12008	544
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			2	12005,12009	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	12005	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	630	630	3	12005,12008,12009	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			1	12005	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	630	630	1	12007	3531
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	630	630	2	12005,12008	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S			1	12009	1027
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	12009	5591
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	630	630	0		1487
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	630	630	4	12005,12007,12008,12009	12537
Paratacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃(Cu,Zn)Cl₂(OH)₆	630	630	1	12007	158
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			1	12009	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			1	12005	61156
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO			1	12009	1101
Volborthite ()*	Volborthite	Cu₃V₂O₇(OH)₂·2H₂O			2	12005,12009	155

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
	sedcu-00033	630	630	U.Proterozoic										Cu	270267	Mount Coffin Mine, Mount Coffin Mines, Copley, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia	Mount Coffin	Cox et al. (2003)		USGSOFR03_107

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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