Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
The Island Goldfield (Austin), Cue Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 264905
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-264905.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "The Island Goldfield (Austin), Cue Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Blackman's Find Gold Mine (Moonlight)
Chicago Gold Mine (Chicago United; Shamrock; Island Eureka South)
Golconda Gold Mine
Ironclad Gold Mine (Island Lake Austin)
Island Eureka Gold Mine
Louise Gold Mine
Mainland Consols Gold Mine (Mainland; Daly's; Last Chance)
Moyagee Gold Mine
New Orient Gold Mine (Orient)
Webb's Patch Gold Area

Latitude: 27°39'23"S
Longitude: 117°52'41"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -27.656388888889,117.87805555556

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.

Copper	Corundum	None	Pyrite	Quartz	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: Au Fe O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper Corundum None Pyrite Quartz Spinel

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	10	15464,15465,15466,15467,15468,15469,15470,15471,15472,15473	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0		14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	0		14899
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	15470	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	15464,15465,15466	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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