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Locality Name:
Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 4000
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2500

mindat Locality ID: 248179
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-248179.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 21

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Bridget Northeast Prospect
Copper Gorge Prospect
Lennon's Find Zinc-lead-copper Prospects
Mount Edgar Osarizawaite Site
Yandicoogina Goldfield

Latitude: 21°28'29"S
Longitude: 120°16'18"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -21.474722222222,120.27166666667

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	Alunite	Andalusite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper
Corundum	Diaspore	Feldspar	Linarite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Sulphur	Tourmaline

Albite ()*	Andalusite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Linarite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Osarizawaite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Schorl ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*

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: Ag Al Au B Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mo Na O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Alunite Andalusite Aragonite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper
Corundum Diaspore Feldspar Linarite Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Sulphur Tourmaline

29 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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	4000	2500	1	15870	8803
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	4000	2500	1	15872	1310
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	4000	2500	2	15872,15873	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	4000	2500	1	15879	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	4000	2500	2	15872,15873	11547
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	4000	2500	1	15873	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4000	2500	1	15872	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4000	2500	2	15872,15873	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4000	2500	3	15871,15872,15876	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	4000	2500	1	15872	1382
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	4000	2500	2	15870,15872	3531
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	4000	2500	2	15871,15872	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4000	2500	5	15871,15872,15876,15879,15882	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	4000	2500	1	15873	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4000	2500	15	15875,15876,15877,15878,15879,15880,15881,15882,15883,15885,15886,15888,15889,15890,15891	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	4000	2500	1	15873	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	4000	2500	1	15872	1689
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	4000	2500	1	15873	2228
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	4000	2500	1	15873	987
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	4000	2500	0		14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4000	2500	5	15870,15871,15872,15876,15879	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	4000	2500	1	15887	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	4000	2500	3	15871,15872,15887	17380
Osarizawaite ()*	Alunite	Pb(Al₂Cu²⁺)(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	4000	2500	1	15873	64
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4000	2500	7	15870,15871,15872,15876,15879,15887,15890	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4000	2500	12	15870,15871,15872,15873,15876,15878,15879,15881,15882,15883,15887,15890	61156
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	4000	2500	1	15872	2705
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4000	2500	4	15871,15872,15882,15890	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	4000	2500	1	15876	2045

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
EG97_873-00018	pegmatite
EG97_873-00019	pegmatite
EG97_873-00020	pegmatite
EG97_873-00021	pegmatite

5 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
EG97_873-00018	2860	2800	2830±30	Rb-Sr	muscovite	Yes	Muscovite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00019	2855	2823	2839±16	Pb-Pb	cassiterite	Yes	Cassiterite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00020	2921	2815	2868±53	Pb-Pb	cassiterite	Yes	Cassiterite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00021	3293	2843	3068±225	Pb-Pb	apatite	Yes		248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
vms-00048	4000	2500	Archean					122924	Copper Gorge Prospect, Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Copper George	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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