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Locality Name:
Tenterfield, Clive Co., New South Wales, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 133673
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-133673.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tenterfield, Clive Co., New South Wales, Australia": 49
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 47

Number of Child Localities: 39
Child Localities:
Anomaly 153 Prospect
Anomaly 155 Prospect
Anomaly 6 Prospect
Basket Swamp Silver Lodes (Basket Swamp Creek Lode; Basket Creek Lode)
Batemans Surfacing
Brassington Creek Alluvials
Bretts Prospect
Burra Swamp South
Burra Swamp Tin Alluvials
Demon Creek Alluvials
Dicksons Deposit
Donald Grey Mine (Donald Gray Mine)
Donaldsons Prospect
Exodus Zone & Anomaly 150
Genesis Zone
Glenrock Deposit
Glenrock East
Glenrock Quartz
Hiawatha Deposit
Kennedy & Co Prospect
Kennedys Surfacing
Lee And Party Prospect
Leefields Mine
Leis Molybdenite Mine (Longs Surprise; Leis Long Lead)
Moors Prospect
Portion 19 Occurrence
Portion 22 Occurrence
Portion 23 Occurrence
Portion 28 Occurrence
Portion 36 Occurrence
Portion 6 Occurrence
Portion 66 Occurrence
Reid And Weirs Claim (Adams Claim)
Sawyers Gully
Summers Reef
Swamp Oak Creek Bismuth Deposit
The Ranch Prospect
Timbarra
Tin Swamp

Latitude: 29°'48"S
Longitude: 151°59'37"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -29.013333333333,151.99361111111

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Mo Na O Pb S Si Sn Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenicArsenopyriteCalciteChalcopyriteClayCopperCorundumFeldsparKaoliniteMica
MolybdeniteNickelineNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltRutileSphaleriteStibnite

19 IMA Minerals at location:
Albite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Bismuth  (*)Bismuthinite  (*)Calcite  (*)
Cassiterite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Corundum  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)
Hematite  (*)Kaolinite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Pyrrhotite  (*)Quartz  (*)Silver  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Albite  (*)FeldsparNa(AlSi3O8)157508803
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS55709,5718,5729,5743,57509052
Bismuth  (*)ArsenicBi35730,5739,57421966
Bismuthinite  (*)StibniteBi2S3157501935
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)1572927770
Cassiterite  (*)RutileSnO2135707,5708,5709,5711,5712,5714,5715,5720,5721,5726,5727,5731,57555171
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS235710,5718,572927198
Corundum  (*)CorundumAl2O3157261797
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS55710,5717,5718,5729,574024243
Gold  (*)CopperAu135710,5716,5718,5741,5745,5746,5747,5749,5750,5751,5752,5753,575530554
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O31571014640
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)425710,57305591
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS2155718,5719,5722,5723,5725,5730,5732,5733,5734,5736,5737,5738,5739,5743,57505800
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)255707,5708,5710,5718,575017380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS285710,5718,5723,5726,5729,5740,5749,575039462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S825709,57189056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2215707,5708,5710,5713,5717,5718,5722,5723,5724,5725,5726,5729,5730,5736,5739,5740,5741,5742,5743,5749,575061156
Silver  (*)CopperAg25710,57175186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS25729,574021482



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