Mineral Evolution Database

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

mindat Locality ID: 133702
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-133702.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Raleigh Co., New South Wales, Australia": 117
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 105

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Bellingen Gravel Pit (Thora Road Gravel Pit)
Boambee Clay Pit
Bonville
Bowraville
Burrapine
Girralong
Gumma Decorative Gravel Deposit
Macksville
Nambucca Heads
Taylors Arm District
Urunga
Valla Granite Quarry

Latitude: 30°34'38"S
Longitude: 152°52'16"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.577222222222,152.87111111111

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.

Alunite	Arsenic	Arsenolite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Berthierite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite
Copper	Covellite	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Kaolinite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None
Prehnite	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Albite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Antimony ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Berthierite ()*
Bindheimite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*
Cervantite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cosalite ()*	Covellite ()*	Dickite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Graphite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kermesite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Plumbogummite ()*	Powellite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Proustite ()*
Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Scorodite ()*	Senarmontite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Valentinite ()*

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 Mg Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si Sn W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Arsenic Arsenolite Arsenopyrite Baryte Berthierite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite
Copper Covellite Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Kaolinite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None
Prehnite Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

42 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	3	9013,9039,9042	8803
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	9029	2734
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	4	8996,9078,9081,9091	363
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	35	8988,8989,8993,8994,8997,9010,9011,9013,9015,9022,9023,9025,9026,9029,9030,9033,9035,9040,9041,9042,9045,9047,9051,9060,9066,9068,9071,9073,9078,9081,9084,9085,9089,9091,9092	9052
Berthierite ()*	Berthierite	FeSb₂S₄	2	9081,9091	343
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	1	8997	450
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	9092	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	2	9024,9092	1935
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	9001,9010,9024	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	9092	5171
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	26	8985,8986,8990,8996,8999,9000,9002,9004,9045,9046,9047,9049,9050,9051,9060,9066,9067,9071,9072,9073,9074,9076,9077,9081,9083,9091	352
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	11	8997,9010,9011,9016,9020,9022,9024,9028,9030,9041,9090	27198
Cosalite ()*	None	Pb₂Bi₂S₅	1	9024	344
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	4	8989,8997,9022,9026	4165
Dickite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	9060,9078	651
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	9078	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3	9013,9039,9042	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	8	9004,9010,9011,9013,9022,9026,9029,9053	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	8993	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	15	8988,8997,9002,9004,9007,9013,9022,9027,9029,9038,9071,9073,9085,9089,9092	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	9001	2812
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	9029	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	3	8981,8983,9060	5591
Kermesite ()*	None	Sb₂OS₂	1	9091	230
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	13	9015,9016,9017,9018,9019,9020,9021,9028,9030,9032,9033,9034,9090	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	4	8983,9011,9032,9090	17380
Plumbogummite ()*	Alunite	PbAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	1	9029	170
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	1	9017	494
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	27	8999,9000,9001,9002,9003,9004,9049,9055,9056,9057,9059,9060,9061,9062,9063,9066,9067,9068,9069,9071,9072,9074,9075,9076,9077,9078,9079	1898
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	1	8997	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	9022	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	31	8989,8993,8995,8997,9000,9001,9003,9010,9011,9013,9014,9016,9020,9022,9023,9024,9025,9026,9028,9029,9030,9032,9033,9034,9039,9040,9041,9071,9089,9090,9092	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	3	9016,9030,9041	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	79	8981,8983,8985,8986,8987,8988,8989,8990,8991,8992,8993,8994,8995,8996,8997,8999,9000,9001,9002,9003,9004,9007,9008,9010,9011,9012,9013,9014,9015,9017,9018,9019,9020,9021,9022,9023,9024,9025,9026,9027,9029,9030,9032,9033,9034,9035,9036,9038,9039,9040,9045,9046,9047,9049,9050,9051,9055,9056,9058,9059,9060,9061,9062,9063,9066,9067,9068,9069,9072,9073,9074,9075,9076,9078,9083,9085,9089,9090,9091	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	4	9017,9030,9041,9090	4894
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	9	8989,8993,9010,9011,9015,9026,9035,9042,9089	1153
Senarmontite ()*	Arsenolite	Sb₂O₃	2	9060,9063	179
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	9029	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	8997,9010,9022,9026,9029	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	47	8986,8987,8990,8991,8992,8995,8996,8999,9000,9001,9002,9003,9004,9007,9023,9045,9046,9047,9048,9049,9050,9051,9055,9056,9057,9058,9059,9060,9061,9062,9063,9065,9066,9067,9068,9069,9071,9072,9073,9074,9075,9076,9077,9078,9081,9083,9091	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	8997,9022	5317
Valentinite ()*	None	Sb₂O₃	1	9078	369

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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