Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 124
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-124.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory, Australia": 120
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 119

Number of Child Localities: 119
Child Localities:
Ace High Gold Mine
Ajax Mine
Anomaly C6 (Explorer 104)
Arcadia Gold Mine
Argo Gold Mine (Explorer 46)
Arizona Gold Mine
Big Ben Gold Mine
Billy Boy Prospect
Black Angel Gold Mine
Black Boy
Black Cat Gold Mine
Blue Moon Gold Mine
Bomber Prospect (Explorer 86)
Bootu Creek Manganese Mine
Budgie Prospect (TC40)
Burnt Shirt Gold Mine
Caroline Gold Mine
Cat's Whiskers Project (Cat's Whiskers Mine; Eldorado An.4)
Chariot Gold Mine (Chardonnay)
Cleo's Gift Gold Mine
Comstock Gold Mine (Flag)
Crusader Gold Mine
Curlew Gold Mine (Red Bluff)
Dot Gold Mine (Dot 6; Dot Six)
Edna Beryl Gold Mine
Eldorado Gold Mine
Ellen M Gold Mine
Enterprise Gold Mine
Estralita Gold Mine
Explorer 109 Prospect (Explorer 110)
Fassifern Gold Mine
Fassifern West Prospect
Franc Prospect (Explorer 14)
Gecko Mine (Explorer 1)
Giant Moon
Gibbet Gold Mine (Hill 98)
Gigantic Gold Mine
Golden Forty Gold Mine
Golden Kangaroo Gold Mine (Golden Kangaroo East; Golden Forty North)
Golden Key Gold Mine
Golden Mile Gold Mine
Golden Slipper Gold Mine
Great Bear Gold Mine
Great Eastern Gold Mine
Great Northern Gold Mine
Hammerjack Gold Mine
Hermitage Prospect (Explorer 26)
Hidden Mystery Gold Mine
Hopeful Star East
Hopeful Star Extended Gold Mine
Hopeful Star Gold Mine
I.M.O. Gold Mine
Irish Emblem Gold Mine
Ivanhoe Mine
Jasper Hill
Joker Gold Mine
Jubilee Gold Mine
Juno Mine ('Peko'; Explorer 8)
Kathleen Gold Mine
Kia Ora Gold Mine
Kimberley Kids Gold Mine
Little Wonder Gold Mine
Lone Star Gold Mine
Lucky Strike Gold Mine
Luna Gold Mine
Malbec West Gold Mine (Malbec; Malbec East; C11; Explorer 107)
Mammoth Gold Mine
Maple Leaf Gold Mine
Mary Ann Gold Mine
Mary Lane Gold Mine (Mary Lane)
Mauretania Gold Mine (Never In Doubt)
Memsahib Gold Mine (Mem Sahib)
Mint Gold Mine (Copperhead; Eureka)
Mount Margaret Gold Mine
Mount Samuel
Mulga One Prospect
New Hope Gold Mine
New Moon Gold Mine
Nobles Nob Gold Mine
Northern Star Gold Mine (No. 1 Hill)
Olivewood Gold Mine (Olive Wood Mine; One-Oh-Two; One-Oh-Three; Havelock; Orlando East; 102 Prospect)
Orlando Mine (Orlando West)
Outlaw Gold Mine
Pattie Gold Mine
Peko Mine
Perseverance Mine
Peter Pan Gold Mine
Pigale Prospect (Explorer 209)
Pinnacles Mine
Pinot Prospect (Explorer 118; Explorer 118S)
Plain Jane Gold Mine
Plum Gold Mine (The Plumb)
Pretty Quadroon Gold Mine
Queen Of Sheba Gold Mine (Evening Star; Morning Star)
Red Ned Gold Mine
Red Terror Gold Mine
Renate Gold Mine
Retsina Prospect (Explorer 228)
Rising Sun Gold Mine
Rover Cu-Au Project
Shamrock Mine
Skipper Gold Mine
Southern Cross Gold Mine
Southern Star Gold Mine
TC8 Gold Mine
The Extension Gold Mine (Extended)
Three Keys Gold Mine
True Blue Gold Mine
Utopia Gold Mine
Warrego Fossicking Area
Warrego Mine (MLC 22; Explorer 5)
Weaber's Find Gold Mine
Wedge Gold Mine
West Gibbet Gold Prospect
West Peko Au-Cu Prospect
Westward Ho Gold Mine
Wheal Doria Gold Mine
Whippet Gold Mine
White Devil Gold Mine

Latitude: 19°35'48"S
Longitude: 134°12'10"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -19.596666666667,134.20277777778

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.

Allophane	Alunite	Amphibole	Apatite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Atacamite	Baryte	Bismutite	Calcite
Chalcopyrite	Chalcostibite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Cobaltite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore
Digenite	Enargite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Junoite	Kaolinite	Lillianite	Malachite	Marcasite
Meneghinite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile
Scheelite	Serpentine	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stannite	Stibnite	Stilpnomelane	Talc	Tetrahedrite	Titanite
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 Ba Bi C Ca Cl Co Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Se Si Ti U W Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Cl H O P Pb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Alunite Amphibole Apatite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Atacamite Baryte Bismutite Calcite
Chalcopyrite Chalcostibite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Cobaltite Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore
Digenite Enargite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Junoite Kaolinite Lillianite Malachite Marcasite
Meneghinite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile
Scheelite Serpentine Sphalerite Spinel Stannite Stibnite Stilpnomelane Talc Tetrahedrite Titanite
Wurtzite Zircon

77 IMA Minerals at location:

Actinolite ()*	Aikinite ()*	Albite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*
Atacamite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Bismutite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Cobaltite ()*	Copper ()*	Cosalite ()*
Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Cuprobismutite ()*	Digenite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Emplectite ()*	Enargite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Gladite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Greenalite ()*	Guanajuatite ()*
Hammarite ()*	Hematite ()*	Heyrovskýite ()*	Hodrušite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Junoite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Krupkaite ()*	Luzonite ()*	Maghemite ()*
Magnesite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Matildite ()*
Minnesotaite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Paratacamite ()*	Pekoite ()*
Phosphohedyphane ()*	Plumbogummite ()*	Proudite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Rutile ()*	Scheelite ()*
Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stilpnomelane ()*	Talc ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Variscite ()*	Wittichenite ()*
Wittite ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	10462,10524	3419
Aikinite ()*	Meneghinite	CuPbBiS₃	1	10466	315
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	10443,10524	8803
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	10524	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	5	10442,10454,10494,10524,10528	9052
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	10510	544
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	10463	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	10442,10528	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	5	10442,10466,10494,10524,10528	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	21	10410,10413,10417,10426,10427,10442,10446,10462,10463,10466,10479,10489,10491,10497,10509,10514,10520,10522,10524,10527,10528	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	6	10426,10436,10457,10488,10489,10498	716
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	8	10411,10416,10426,10436,10446,10485,10514,10528	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	10	10415,10442,10443,10444,10466,10475,10494,10496,10524,10526	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	10	10416,10442,10446,10454,10462,10463,10478,10491,10504,10528	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	45	10410,10411,10413,10415,10416,10417,10418,10421,10426,10427,10433,10434,10436,10438,10442,10443,10444,10446,10457,10460,10462,10463,10466,10476,10483,10484,10485,10488,10489,10490,10491,10494,10496,10497,10498,10499,10503,10505,10509,10514,10520,10523,10524,10526,10528	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	8	10415,10426,10444,10482,10496,10498,10510,10526	3531
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	10514	1756
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	3	10442,10463,10491	966
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3	10442,10491,10494	3846
Cosalite ()*	None	Pb₂Bi₂S₅	1	10524	344
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	7	10418,10442,10446,10462,10485,10491,10528	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	6	10415,10426,10489,10494,10498,10510	2970
Cuprobismutite ()*	None	Cu₈AgBi₁₃S₂₄	1	10434	43
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	2	10434,10446	1027
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	18	10413,10427,10436,10437,10442,10443,10462,10466,10475,10481,10482,10485,10489,10490,10491,10509,10524,10528	9895
Emplectite ()*	Chalcostibite	CuBiS₂	3	10442,10466,10528	246
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	10514	910
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	10421,10514	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	10524	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	11	10413,10415,10417,10442,10444,10491,10496,10509,10524,10526,10528	24243
Gladite ()*	Meneghinite	CuPbBi₅S₉	1	10466	67
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	6	10415,10444,10456,10496,10526,10528	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	106	10409,10410,10411,10412,10413,10415,10416,10417,10418,10419,10420,10423,10424,10425,10426,10427,10428,10430,10431,10432,10433,10434,10435,10436,10437,10438,10439,10440,10442,10443,10445,10446,10447,10448,10449,10450,10451,10453,10454,10455,10456,10457,10458,10459,10460,10462,10463,10464,10465,10466,10467,10468,10469,10470,10471,10472,10474,10475,10476,10477,10478,10479,10481,10482,10483,10484,10485,10486,10487,10488,10489,10490,10491,10492,10493,10494,10495,10497,10498,10499,10500,10503,10504,10505,10506,10507,10508,10509,10510,10511,10512,10513,10514,10515,10516,10517,10519,10520,10521,10522,10523,10524,10525,10526,10527,10528	30554
Greenalite ()*	Clay Serpentine	(Fe²⁺,Fe³⁺)_2-3Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	10524	61
Guanajuatite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂Se₃	1	10466	37
Hammarite ()*	Meneghinite	Cu₂Pb₂Bi₄S₉	1	10442	43
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	86	10410,10411,10415,10416,10417,10418,10419,10420,10421,10423,10424,10425,10426,10427,10428,10431,10433,10434,10436,10437,10438,10440,10441,10442,10443,10444,10445,10446,10449,10450,10451,10454,10455,10456,10457,10459,10462,10463,10465,10466,10471,10474,10475,10476,10478,10479,10480,10481,10482,10483,10484,10485,10486,10487,10488,10489,10490,10492,10493,10494,10495,10496,10497,10498,10499,10500,10502,10503,10504,10505,10506,10507,10508,10509,10511,10513,10514,10515,10516,10517,10519,10523,10524,10526,10527,10528	14640
Heyrovskýite ()*	Lillianite	Pb₆Bi₂S₉	1	10466	66
Hodrušite ()*	None	Cu₈Bi₁₂S₂₂	2	10434,10442	28
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	10524	5433
Junoite ()*	Junoite	Cu₂Pb₃Bi₈(S,Se)₁₆	1	10466	18
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	17	10415,10420,10434,10436,10440,10444,10456,10459,10479,10480,10488,10491,10496,10498,10519,10526,10527	5591
Krupkaite ()*	Meneghinite	PbCuBi₃S₆	1	10466	80
Luzonite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	10514	198
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	10475	229
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	5	10415,10442,10444,10496,10526	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	54	10411,10413,10415,10416,10417,10418,10419,10423,10425,10426,10427,10434,10436,10437,10438,10442,10443,10444,10446,10454,10456,10462,10463,10466,10474,10475,10478,10481,10482,10483,10484,10485,10486,10488,10489,10490,10491,10494,10496,10497,10498,10499,10503,10504,10505,10507,10509,10510,10514,10520,10523,10524,10526,10528	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	16	10411,10415,10416,10426,10444,10463,10478,10482,10491,10494,10495,10496,10498,10510,10526,10527	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	3	10520,10524,10528	5674
Matildite ()*	None	AgBiS₂	1	10466	252
Minnesotaite ()*	Clay Talc	Fe²⁺₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	10524	61
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	10442	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	30	10418,10420,10423,10434,10436,10440,10444,10446,10456,10459,10466,10475,10479,10480,10483,10484,10488,10489,10490,10491,10494,10498,10504,10505,10513,10514,10520,10526,10527,10528	17380
Paratacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃(Cu,Zn)Cl₂(OH)₆	1	10510	158
Pekoite ()*	Meneghinite	CuPbBi₁₁S₁₈	1	10466	39
Phosphohedyphane ()*	Apatite	Ca₂Pb₃(PO₄)₃Cl	0		71
Plumbogummite ()*	Alunite	PbAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	1	10462	170
Proudite ()*	None	Cu₂Pb₁₆Bi₂₀(S,Se)₄₇	1	10466	4
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	36	10411,10413,10415,10416,10417,10418,10421,10426,10427,10433,10438,10442,10443,10444,10456,10462,10463,10466,10475,10483,10484,10489,10491,10494,10496,10497,10503,10504,10505,10509,10519,10520,10523,10524,10526,10528	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	3	10462,10491,10528	1725
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	5	10462,10466,10520,10523,10524	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	83	10410,10411,10413,10415,10416,10417,10418,10419,10420,10421,10423,10424,10425,10426,10427,10428,10431,10434,10436,10437,10438,10440,10441,10442,10443,10444,10445,10446,10448,10449,10450,10454,10455,10456,10457,10459,10462,10463,10465,10466,10468,10474,10475,10476,10478,10479,10480,10483,10484,10485,10486,10487,10488,10489,10490,10493,10494,10495,10496,10497,10498,10499,10500,10502,10503,10504,10505,10506,10507,10508,10509,10510,10513,10515,10516,10517,10519,10520,10523,10524,10526,10527,10528	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	10524	1711
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2	10490,10524	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	10413	4894
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	6	10415,10444,10496,10524,10526,10528	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	6	10413,10442,10462,10491,10524,10528	21482
Stilpnomelane ()*	Stilpnomelane Clay	(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)₈(Si,Al)₁₂(O,OH)₃₆·nH₂O	1	10524	456
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	37	10410,10411,10413,10415,10418,10423,10425,10426,10427,10436,10437,10443,10444,10446,10462,10466,10475,10478,10481,10482,10483,10484,10485,10486,10488,10489,10491,10496,10498,10503,10505,10510,10514,10524,10526,10527,10528	3337
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	10442	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	10490,10524	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	3	10462,10498,10524	2562
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	10442	2718
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	0		301
Wittichenite ()*	None	Cu₃BiS₃	5	10442,10446,10462,10483,10528	297
Wittite ()*	None	Pb₈Bi₁₀(S,Se)₂₃	1	10466	15
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	10490,10524	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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