Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Lady Loretta Deposit (Lady Loretta Prospect), Gunpowder District, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1666
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1643

mindat Locality ID: 13984
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-13984.html

Tectonic Settings: Intra Cratonic

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lady Loretta Deposit (Lady Loretta Prospect), Gunpowder District, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 19°46'7"S
Longitude: 139°4'1"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -19.768611111111,139.06694444444

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Corundum	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Baryte ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*	Greenockite ()*	Hematite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cd Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Ba C Ca Cd Cu Fe Mg O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Corundum None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1666	1643	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1666	1643	3092
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1666	1643	11547
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1666	1643	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1666	1643	27198
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	1666	1643	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1666	1643	24243
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1666	1643	717
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1666	1643	14640
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1666	1643	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1666	1643	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1666	1643	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1666	1643	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1666	1643	5317

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedexmvt-00022	1645	1645	1645 Ma											13984	Lady Loretta Deposit (Lady Loretta Prospect), Gunpowder District, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia	Lady Loretta	Taylor et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1297
	sedznpb-00029	1666	1643	1658±8 to 1647±4											13984	Lady Loretta Deposit (Lady Loretta Prospect), Gunpowder District, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia	Lady Loretta	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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