Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Malmsbury, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 159094
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-159094.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Malmsbury, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Degraves Mill (Ward's Mill)
Malmsbury Gold Field
Malmsbury Quarry
Rollinsons Quarry

Latitude: 37°13'29"S
Longitude: 144°23'39"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -37.224722222222,144.39416666667

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.

Amorphous	Apatite	Calcite	Chabazite	Copper	Corundum	Cristobalite	Feldspar	Harmotome	None
Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Thomsonite

Albite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Cristobalite ()*
Ferrosilite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Opal ()*	Phillipsite-Ca ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Spinel ()*
Thomsonite-Ca ()*

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 Au C Ca F Fe H Mg Na O P Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Apatite Calcite Chabazite Copper Corundum Cristobalite Feldspar Harmotome None
Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Spinel Thomsonite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	14328	8803
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	14328	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	14318	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	2	14318,14328	310
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	14328	453
Ferrosilite ()*	Pyroxene	Fe²⁺₂Si₂O₆	1	14328	84
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	14328	2740
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	14322,14325	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	14328	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	14328	14899
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2	14327,14328	2994
Phillipsite-Ca ()*	Harmotome	Ca₃(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	1	14328	75
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	14318	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	14328	5614
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	14328	1934
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	1	14318	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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