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Locality Name:
Keller Creek Prospect, Mabel Downs Station, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1850
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1830

mindat Locality ID: 122908
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-122908.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Keller Creek Prospect, Mabel Downs Station, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 17°18'44"S
Longitude: 127°57'30"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -17.312222222222,127.95833333333

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	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Quartz

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: C Cu Fe Ni O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Cu Fe Ni O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Nickeline None Pentlandite Quartz

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Graphite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1830	1830	27198
Graphite ()*	None	C	1850	1830	2812
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1830	1830	1512
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1850	1830	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1850	1830	61156

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
	Cr-00006	1850	1850					whole rock			Yes		Chromite	Cr	146977	Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia	EST PILBARA BLOCKS AND HALLS CREEK MOBILE ZONE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA	Sun et al. (1991)	10.1016/0301-9268(91)90045-C	PR50_1
	EG105_1057_038	1830	1830	1830							Yes			Ni, Cu, Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Os, Ru	122909	Sally Malay Ni Mine (Savannah), Mabel Downs Station, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Sally Malay deposit	Begg et al. (2010)	10.2113/econgeo.105.6.1057	EG105_1057

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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