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Locality Name:
Mount Monger, Mount Monger Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2709
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2600

mindat Locality ID: 271661
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-271661.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mount Monger, Mount Monger Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 50
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 50

Number of Child Localities: 50
Child Localities:
Avondale Gold Mine
Big Bull Gold Mine
Black Hill Gold Mine (Black Hills)
Blair Ni Mine
Caledonian Gold Mine
Carnilya East Ni Prospect
Carnilya Hill Ni Mine
Champion Gold Mine
Christmas Flats Gold Mine
Costello Gold Mine
Creedon's Welcome Gold Mine
Daisy-Milano Gold Mine (Daisy-Milano Complex)
Dinnie Reggio Gold Mine
Dry Mount Gold Mine (Jews; Three Jews)
Duplex Hill Ni Prospect
Duplex West Ni Prospect
Fifty Grand Gold Prospect
Futi Baguss Gold Mine
Galatea Gold Mine
Goodenough Gold Mine
Herbert Gold Mine (Chance)
Hogan's Find Gold Mine
Inverness Gold Mine (Stanley; Great Stanley)
Isonomy Gold Mine (King George)
Kosciusko Gold Mine
Lass O'Gowrie Gold Mine
Leslie Gold Mine
Little Wonder Gold Mine
Loganberry East Talc Mine (Loganberry)
Lorna Doone Gold Mine
Magic Gold Prospect
Majestic Gold Prospect (Imperial)
Mayday Hill Gold Mine
McCahon's Great Hope Gold Mine
McLellan's Gold Mine
Minerva Gold Mine
Mirror Gold Mine
Mount Monger Proprietary Gold Mine
New Bau Gold Mine
Pauline (2) Gold Mine
Pauline Gold Mine
Providence Gold Mine
Royal Oak Gold Mine
Sibu Gold Mine
Spinifex Gold Mine
Sudden Jerk Gold Mine
Tamerlane Gold Mine
Walkers Find Ni Prospect
Wombola Dam Gold Mine
Wombola Gold Mine

Latitude: 30°59'48"S
Longitude: 121°52'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.996666666667,121.88305555556

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	Amphibole	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Copper	Corrensite	Corundum
Covellite	Feldspar	Kaolinite	Marcasite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Serpentine	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc	Tourmaline	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Ankerite ()*	Antigorite ()*
Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Clinochlore ()*
Corrensite ()*	Covellite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Dravite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnesite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Opal ()*
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Schorl ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*	Tremolite ()*
Vermiculite ()*	Violarite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 As Au B C Ca Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Na Ni O Pb S Si Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: H O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Amphibole Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Copper Corrensite Corundum
Covellite Feldspar Kaolinite Marcasite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Serpentine Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Talc Tourmaline Zircon

38 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
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2709	2701	1	16881	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2680	2600	1	16906	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2680	2600	1	16900	2162
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	2680	2600	1	16924	3092
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2709	2600	2	16881,16900	708
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2680	2600	1	16909	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2680	2600	1	16900	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2709	2600	8	16880,16881,16889,16890,16906,16908,16910,16922	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	2709	2701	1	16881	3902
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	2680	2600	2	16900,16908	1756
Corrensite ()*	Corrensite Clay	(Ca,Na,K)_1-x(Mg,Fe,Al)₉(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₁₀·nH₂O	2680	2600	1	16903	49
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2680	2600	2	16910,16924	4165
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2709	2600	4	16880,16881,16903,16910	9895
Dravite ()*	Tourmaline	NaMg₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	2680	2600	1	16896	648
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2709	2600	3	16881,16886,16909	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2680	2600	40	16875,16876,16877,16879,16882,16883,16884,16885,16886,16887,16888,16893,16894,16895,16896,16897,16898,16899,16900,16901,16902,16903,16904,16905,16906,16907,16908,16909,16910,16911,16912,16914,16915,16916,16917,16919,16920,16921,16923,16924	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2680	2600	3	16886,16896,16903	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2709	2701	1	16881	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2680	2600	1	16885	5591
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	2709	2600	2	16881,16900	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2709	2600	4	16880,16881,16900,16910	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	2680	2600	1	16924	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2709	2600	3	16881,16886,16906	17380
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	2709	2701	1	16881	633
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2709	2701	0		2994
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	2709	2701	1	16881	767
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	2709	2600	4	16880,16881,16889,16890	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2709	2600	8	16880,16881,16889,16906,16908,16909,16922,16924	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2709	2600	4	16880,16881,16889,16890	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2709	2600	20	16879,16880,16881,16883,16886,16887,16894,16896,16897,16899,16900,16902,16903,16904,16906,16907,16911,16920,16923,16924	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2680	2600	3	16900,16903,16920	5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	2680	2600	2	16886,16900	2705
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2709	2600	2	16881,16886	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2709	2600	7	16880,16881,16889,16900,16903,16908,16909	3337
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2709	2600	4	16880,16881,16889,16900	2562
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	2680	2600	1	16903	652
Violarite ()*	Spinel	FeNi₂S₄	2680	2600	2	16889,16922	380
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2678	2670	1	16900	5251

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_514	Komatiite deposit in the Eastern Goldfields Province, discovered in 1970. Putnisite occurs in the oxidation zone of komatiite and dioritic lodes.
Michelle_603	Ni-Cu sulfides in komatiite
Michelle_604	Ni-Cu sulfides in komatiite

5 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
Michelle_514	2709	2701	2705±4	U-Pb	Age of deposit		zircon	Yes	Zircon			248267	Armstrong Ni Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Armstrong Ni Mine	Hoatson et al. (2006)	10.1016/j.oregeorev.2006.05.002	OGR29_177	Table. 1. Age of deposit
EG90_845-00003	2678	2670	2674±4	Pb-Pb			zircon	Yes	Zircon			223	Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia		Kent and McDougall (1995)	10.2113/gsecongeo.90.4.845	EG90_845
Hg-00117	2680	2600		Ar-Ar, U-Pb		high		Yes		Coloradoite	Hg	223	Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia		Kent and McDougall (1995)	10.2113/gsecongeo.90.4.845	EG90_845
Michelle_603	2709	2701	2705±4		Age of deposit or general age of the metallogenic province						Ni, Cu	271773	Blair Ni Mine, Mount Monger, Mount Monger Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Blair	Hoatson et al. (2006)	10.1016/j.oregeorev.2006.05.002	OGR29_177	See Table. 1 Global resources of nickel metal and ages of the major nickel sulfide deposits of the world. Age can refer to the age of a specific nickel sulfide deposit, or the general age of the metallogenic province containing nickel deposits that are similar to a dated deposit (e.g. 2705 Ma Komatiite-hosted deposits in the Eastern Goldfields Province). Dates on felsic volcanic rocks that include komatiites are consistent with an inferred eruption age for these komatiites of c. 2705 Ma.
Michelle_604	2709	2701	2705±4		Age of deposit or general age of the metallogenic province						Ni, Cu	146969	Carnilya Hill Ni Mine, Mount Monger, Mount Monger Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Carnilya Hill	Hoatson et al. (2006)	10.1016/j.oregeorev.2006.05.002	OGR29_177	See Table. 1 Global resources of nickel metal and ages of the major nickel sulfide deposits of the world. Age can refer to the age of a specific nickel sulfide deposit, or the general age of the metallogenic province containing nickel deposits that are similar to a dated deposit (e.g. 2705 Ma Komatiite-hosted deposits in the Eastern Goldfields Province). Dates on felsic volcanic rocks that include komatiites are consistent with an inferred eruption age for these komatiites of c. 2705 Ma.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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