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Locality Name:
Little Plains Quarry (Lottah Road Quarry; Fieldwicks Quarry; Weldborough Pass Quarry), Blue Tier District, Break O'Day Municipality, Tasmania, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 8238
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-8238.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Little Plains Quarry (Lottah Road Quarry; Fieldwicks Quarry; Weldborough Pass Quarry), Blue Tier District, Break O'Day Municipality, Tasmania, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 41°13'"S
Longitude: 147°58'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -41.216666666667,147.96666666667

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 C Ca Fe H K Mg Na O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Fe H K Mg Na O Si 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AnalcimeCalciteClayFeldsparGismondineGmeliniteNatroliteNoneSmectite-vermiculiteThomsonite

9 IMA Minerals at location:
Analcime  (*)Calcite  (*)Gismondine  (*)Gmelinite-Ca  (*)Gonnardite  (*)
Natrolite  (*)Sanidine  (*)Saponite  (*)Thomsonite-Ca  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Analcime  (*)AnalcimeNa(AlSi2O6)·H2O01627
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)027770
Gismondine  (*)GismondineCa2(Si4Al4)O16·8H2O0128
Gmelinite-Ca  (*)GmeliniteCa2(Si8Al4)O24·11H2O020
Gonnardite  (*)Natrolite(Na,Ca)2(Si,Al)5O10·3H2O0167
Natrolite  (*)NatroliteNa2(Si3Al2)O10·2H2O01236
Sanidine  (*)FeldsparK(AlSi3O8)0598
Saponite  (*)Clay Smectite-vermiculite(Ca,Na)0.3(Mg,Fe)3(Si,Al)4O10(OH)2·4H2O0301
Thomsonite-Ca  (*)ThomsoniteNaCa2(Al5Si5)O20·6H2O0452



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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