Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Yetholme, Roxburgh Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 122305
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-122305.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Yetholme, Roxburgh Co., New South Wales, Australia": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Acme Copper Mine (Endeavour 9 Prospect; Locksley Mine)
Mount Tennyson Molybdenite Mine (Mount Tennyson Molybdenum Mine; Yetholme Mine)

Latitude: 33°30'12"S
Longitude: 149°47'52"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -33.503333333333,149.79777777778

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.

Chalcopyrite	Covellite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite
Wollastonite

Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Powellite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

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: Ca Cu Fe H Mn Mo O S Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe H Mo O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Covellite Molybdenite Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite
Wollastonite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	9437	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	9437	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	9437	4165
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	0		345
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	9437	5800
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	1	9437	494
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	9437	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	9437	3106
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	9437	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	9437	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	9437	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	9437	21482
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	9437	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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