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Locality Name:
Comet Vale, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 13258
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-13258.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Comet Vale, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Blue Speck Creek
Happy Jack Mine (Lady Bee Mine)
Lady Margaret Gold Mine
Lake Goongarrie
Lake View Mines
Maher's GML
Sand Queen Mines

Latitude: 29°57'"S
Longitude: 121°8'13"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -29.95,121.13694444444

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	Amorphous	Amphibole	Analcime	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenic	Baryte	Bismutite
Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Gypsum	Malachite	Monazite
Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Serpentine	Smectite-vermiculite
Sphalerite	Talc	Tetradymite

Actinolite ()*	Analcime ()*	Anglesite ()*	Antigorite ()*	Azurite ()*
Bismuth ()*	Bismutite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*	Cosalite ()*	Crocoite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gibbsite ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Malachite ()*	Mimetite ()*
Nontronite ()*	Opal ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pucherite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*
Tetradymite ()*	Tremolite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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: Al As Au Bi C Ca Cl Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Si Te Ti V W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Alunite Amorphous Amphibole Analcime Apatite Aragonite Arsenic Baryte Bismutite
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Gypsum Malachite Monazite
Nickeline None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Serpentine Smectite-vermiculite
Sphalerite Talc Tetradymite

38 IMA Minerals at location:

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	1	17703	3419
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	17705	1627
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	3	17700,17703,17704	2734
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	17700	708
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	17703,17705	5509
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	17705	1966
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	2	17703,17704	716
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	17705	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	17703,17704	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	17702,17703,17705	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	17703	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	17703	3846
Cosalite ()*	None	Pb₂Bi₂S₅	2	17703,17704	344
Crocoite ()*	Monazite Baryte	Pb(CrO₄)	1	17700	81
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	17702	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	17705	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	17700,17703,17704,17705	24243
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	1	17700	504
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	17700,17701,17703,17704,17705	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	17702,17705	6890
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	17702	5433
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	17705	2228
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	1	17699	1487
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	17702,17703	12537
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1	17700	1107
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	2	17700,17705	471
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	17699	2994
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	17700,17705	1898
Pucherite ()*	Scheelite	Bi(VO₄)	1	17705	53
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	17703,17705	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	17705	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	17699,17700,17703,17704,17705	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	2	17703,17705	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	17705	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	17700	3337
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	2	17703,17704	510
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	17700	2562
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	17705	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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