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Locality Name:
Peak Hill Goldfield, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1800
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1800

mindat Locality ID: 108675
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-108675.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Peak Hill Goldfield, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 43
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 40

Number of Child Localities: 26
Child Localities:
Cashmans Mine (Cashburn; Hard To Find)
Curley's Gold P.A.
Deep South Gold Mine (Yarlarweelor; D39; D43; South; South-Central)
Doolgunna Station
Durack Gold P.A.
Fortnum Gold Mine
Goodin Find Gold P.A.
Heines Find Gold Mine
Hit Or Miss Gold Mine (Wilgeena; Wilson's Find)
Horseshoe Lights Mine
Horseshoe Range Manganese Ore Deposits
Judges Gold Patch
Labouchere Gold Mine
Mikhaburra Gold Mine (Holden's Find)
Mount Pleasant Gold Mine
Narracoota Gold Area P.A.
Nathan Gold Mine
Peak Hill
Quartz Well Gold Area P.A.
Ricks Gold Mine
Ruby Well Group
St Crispin Gold P.A.
Starlight Gold Mine (Trev's)
Tom's Gold Mine (Sam's)
Wembley Gold P.A.
Wilthorpe Gold P.A.

Latitude: 25°38'18"S
Longitude: 118°37'39"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -25.638333333333,118.6275

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.

Adelite	Allophane	Alunite	Amphibole	Aragonite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite
Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Descloizite	Diaspore	Digenite	Epidote
Feldspar	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group
Pentlandite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc	Tetrahedrite
Titanite	Tourmaline	Wurtzite	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: Ag Al As Au B Ba Bi C Ca Cu Fe H I K Mg Mn Mo Na Ni O P Pb S Sb Si Te Ti V W Y Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Adelite Allophane Alunite Amphibole Aragonite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Baryte Brochantite Calcite
Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite Descloizite Diaspore Digenite Epidote
Feldspar Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite Marcasite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group
Pentlandite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Talc Tetrahedrite
Titanite Tourmaline Wurtzite Zircon

55 IMA Minerals at location:

Albite ()*	Altaite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*
Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bornite ()*	Brochantite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Churchite-(Y) ()*
Conichalcite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Digenite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Graphite ()*	Grunerite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Iodargyrite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Manganite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Mcguinnessite ()*	Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Mottramite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Osarizawaite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Schorl ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Talc ()*	Tenorite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Titanite ()*	Zircon ()*

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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)			3	17624,17628,17629	8803
Altaite ()*	Rocksalt	PbTe			1	17628	489
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂			1	17614	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			1	17613	3250
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			1	17613	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			1	17613	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			2	17623,17629	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi			1	17628	1966
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄			2	17613,17623	5516
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆			1	17613	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			2	17620,17628	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1800	1800	3	17613,17619,17623	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1800	1800	5	17613,17619,17623,17628,17629	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O			2	17609,17613	3531
Churchite-(Y) ()*	Gypsum	Y(PO₄)·2H₂O			1	17613	70
Conichalcite ()*	Adelite	CaCu(AsO₄)(OH)			1	17613	363
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu			1	17613	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1800	1800	2	17619,17623	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O			1	17613	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1800	1800	1	17619	1027
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂			4	17613,17623,17628,17629	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	17624	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1800	1800	3	17613,17619,17623	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1800	1800	3	17615,17619,17629	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1800	1800	30	17609,17610,17611,17613,17614,17615,17616,17617,17618,17619,17621,17622,17623,17624,17625,17628,17629,17630,17631,17633,17635,17636,17637,17639,17641,17643,17644,17647,17650,17651	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C			3	17624,17628,17631	2812
Grunerite ()*	Amphibole	Fe²⁺₂Fe²⁺₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			1	17624	223
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1800	1800	3	17615,17619,17629	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O			1	17613	1689
Iodargyrite ()*	Wurtzite	AgI	1800	1800	1	17619	180
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1800	1800	4	17619,17620,17628,17629	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1800	1800	6	17613,17614,17615,17618,17619,17624	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1800	1800	4	17609,17613,17619,17623	12537
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)			1	17620	770
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			1	17613	5674
Mcguinnessite ()*	Malachite	CuMg(CO₃)(OH)₂			1	17613	34
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	17624	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			2	17613,17628	5800
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)			1	17613	362
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1800	1800	10	17613,17615,17618,17619,17620,17623,17624,17628,17629,17647	17380
Osarizawaite ()*	Alunite	Pb(Al₂Cu²⁺)(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			1	17613	64
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈			1	17629	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1800	1800	14	17611,17613,17614,17615,17619,17622,17623,17624,17628,17629,17630,17631,17633,17651	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂			2	17620,17632	3106
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			4	17613,17615,17629,17631	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1800	1800	21	17609,17613,17614,17615,17618,17619,17620,17621,17623,17624,17625,17628,17629,17630,17631,17633,17635,17636,17647,17650,17651	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)			1	17629	4894
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)			2	17628,17630	2705
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			1	17629	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			1	17613	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂			1	17613	3337
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO			1	17613	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			1	17628	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O			1	17624	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)			2	17613,17624	5251

1 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
	vms-00011	1800	1800	Lower Proterozoic										S	11886	Horseshoe Lights Mine, Peak Hill Goldfield, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Horseshoe	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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