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Locality Name:
Sorby Hills Mine, Sorby Hills, Wyndham-East Kimberley Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 359
Youngest recorded age at locality: 323

mindat Locality ID: 122325
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-122325.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sorby Hills Mine, Sorby Hills, Wyndham-East Kimberley Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 15°26'24"S
Longitude: 128°57'53"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -15.44,128.96472222222

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.

Aragonite	Bournonite	Calcite	Marcasite	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

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 As C Ca Cu Fe Mg O Pb S Sb Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag As C Ca Cu Fe Mg O Pb S Sb Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Bournonite Calcite Marcasite None Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Bournonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*
Marcasite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	359	323	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	359	323	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	359	323	4979
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	359	323	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	359	323	24243
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	359	323	5674
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	359	323	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	359	323	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	359	323	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	359	323	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	359	323	5317

2 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	Sample Num	Run Num	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
	sedexmvt-00030	359	323	Mississippian		host rock age									122325	Sorby Hills Mine, Sorby Hills, Wyndham-East Kimberley Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Sorby Hills	Taylor et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1297
	sedznpb-00042	359	331	Lower Carboniferous, middle Tournaisian to late Visean											122325	Sorby Hills Mine, Sorby Hills, Wyndham-East Kimberley Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Sorby	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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