Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Northumberland Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 133699
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-133699.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Northumberland Co., New South Wales, Australia": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Allandale
Cessnock
Gosford
Kulnura
Newcastle
Quarrobolong
Woy Woy

Latitude: 33°5'39"S
Longitude: 151°22'24"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -33.094166666667,151.37333333333

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.

Analcime	Aragonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Feldspar	Gadolinite	Gypsum	Harmotome
Mica	Natrolite	None	Phosphosiderite	Pyrite	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Zircon

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Datolite ()*
Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Kolbeckite ()*	Lithiophorite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Phillipsite-Na ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Strontianite ()*
Vernadite ()*	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: Al Au B C Ca Cu Fe H K Li Mg Mn Na O P S Sc Si Sr Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Feldspar Gadolinite Gypsum Harmotome
Mica Natrolite None Phosphosiderite Pyrite Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Zircon

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	2	8928,8930	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	8928,8934	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	8925,8928,8932	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	8925	27198
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	1	8922	498
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	8925	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	8934,8936	6890
Kolbeckite ()*	Phosphosiderite	Sc(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	8936	26
Lithiophorite ()*	None	(Al,Li)(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂(OH)₂	1	8936	210
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	8925	14899
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	8928	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	8925	17380
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	8928	1236
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	3	8928,8934,8935	471
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2	8925,8930	2349
Phillipsite-Na ()*	Harmotome	Na₆(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	1	8928	27
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	8925,8934	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	8923	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	4	8930,8933,8934,8935	6417
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	8928	589
Vernadite ()*	None	(Mn,Fe,Ca,Na)(O,OH)₂·nH₂O	1	8936	65
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	8925	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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