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Locality Name:
Mount Somers, Ashburton District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand

mindat Locality ID: 15264
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-15264.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mount Somers, Ashburton District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Blackburn Mine
Burnett's Silica Sand Quarry
Burnwell Mine
Cavendish Quarry
Mount Alford
Mount Somers Mine (McClimont's; Woolshed Creek)
Mount Somers Mine 2 (Tripps; Burnley)
Mount Somers Silica Sand Quarry (Webb)
Mt Somers Agate Sites
Petrifying Gully (Cabbage Tree Gully; Cox Hills)
Woolmer Mine (Bland's)

Latitude: 43°38'29"S
Longitude: 171°20'4"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -43.641388888889,171.33444444444

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.

Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Garnet	Kaolinite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile

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 C Ca Fe H Mg O S Si Sn

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chlorite Clay Garnet Kaolinite None Pyrite Quartz Rutile

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Almandine ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		2353
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	87424	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	87418	5171
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	0		1756
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	4	87415,87420,87421,87424	5591
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	87421,87424	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	87415,87421,87422,87423,87424	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	87424	6417

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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