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Locality Name:
Bronzewing Goldfield (Mount McClure), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 206124
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-206124.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bronzewing Goldfield (Mount McClure), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Bronzewing Mine (Bronzewing-Mount McClure Mine)
Challenger-Mt McClure Open Pit (Challenger Gold; Challenger North; Challenger South)
Dragon Gold Mine (Dragon-Venus)
Freeman's Find Gold Mine
Lake Maitland U Prospect
Mount Joel Gold Prospects
Mount McClure Gold Mine
Old Bronzewing Gold Mine
Parmelia Gold Mine
Success Gold Mine
Sundowner Gold Prospects

Latitude: 27°24'4"S
Longitude: 121°2'27"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -27.401111111111,121.04083333333

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.

Amphibole	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chloritoid	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum
Covellite	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc
Titanite

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Ankerite ()*	Anthophyllite ()*
Arsenopyrite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chloritoid ()*
Covellite ()*	Cummingtonite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*
Galena ()*	Gibbsite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Maghemite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Scheelite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Talc ()*	Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Si Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Arsenic Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chloritoid Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum
Covellite Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Kaolinite Malachite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Talc
Titanite

38 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# 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	1	17230	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	17230	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	17240	2162
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	17230	3092
Anthophyllite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	17232	718
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	17232	9052
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	17236	1966
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	17230,17236,17240	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	17230,17231,17237	27198
Chloritoid ()*	Chloritoid	Fe²⁺Al₂O(SiO₄)(OH)₂	1	17235	376
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	17237	4165
Cummingtonite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	17235	327
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	17232	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	17230	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	17230,17236	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	17236	24243
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	1	17240	504
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	17230,17240	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	9	17230,17231,17232,17233,17235,17236,17237,17238,17240	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	17230,17236,17240	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	17230	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	4	17230,17232,17235,17240	5591
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	17240	229
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	17230,17235	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	17237	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	17236	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	4	17230,17231,17235,17240	17380
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	17232	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6	17230,17231,17232,17235,17237,17240	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2	17230,17235	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	17230,17231,17232,17235,17236,17237,17238,17240	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	17230	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	2	17230,17236	4894
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	17237	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	17231	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2	17232,17236	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	17230	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	17236	2562

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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