Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Musgrave Ranges, North West Province, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 159070
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-159070.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Musgrave Ranges, North West Province, South Australia, Australia": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Amata Allanite Show (Musgrave Park Deposit)
Ernabella Mission

Latitude: 26°11'28"S
Longitude: 131°38'40"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -26.191111111111,131.64444444444

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.

Allanite	Clay	Corundum	Epidote	Mica	None	Sapphirine	Spinel

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 Be Ca Ce Fe H K Mg O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Clay Corundum Epidote Mica None Sapphirine Spinel

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Corundum ()*	Magnesiotaaffeite-6N'3S ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Sapphirine ()*
Spinel ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	12489	706
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	0		1797
Magnesiotaaffeite-6N'3S ()*	None	Mg₂BeAl₆O₁₂	1	12490	9
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	12490	2273
Sapphirine ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₄(Mg₃Al₉)O₄[Si₃Al₉O₃₆]	1	12490	129
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	12490	1934

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050358	Musgrave Ranges, North West Province, South Australia, Australia	https://rruff.info/R050358

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