Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
North Pole, Shaw River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 122448
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-122448.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "North Pole, Shaw River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Breens Copper
Breens Gold
Cooke Bluff Hill
Democrat Gold Mine
Dresser Mine
Mickey's Find
Miralga Creek
Nansen Mine
Normay Mine
Peary Mine
Socialist Mine
Stubbs Prospect

Latitude: 21°5'43"S
Longitude: 119°24'2"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -21.095277777778,119.40055555556

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Bismutite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Digenite
Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrophyllite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Rutile	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Ankerite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismutite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Copper ()*
Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Digenite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Siderite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Hg K Mg Mo O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C O Pb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Bismutite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Digenite
Kaolinite Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrophyllite Quartz Rocksalt
Rutile Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

29 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	16225	3092
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	16228	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	16221,16223	11547
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	1	16220	716
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	0		4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	16219	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	16219,16225,16227	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	16220	1382
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	16225	2600
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	16219	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	16219	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	16219	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	16219	1027
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	16225,16227	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	16219,16220,16222,16225,16227,16228,16229	30554
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	16219	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	16219,16220,16228	12537
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1	16220	1107
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	16219	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	16225	17380
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	16225	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	16219,16220,16221,16225,16227	39462
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	16225	771
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	16219,16220,16225,16227	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	16225	5614
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	16225	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2	16219,16225	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	16220,16225,16227	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	16225	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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