Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mount Hope, Blaxland Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 146462
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146462.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mount Hope, Blaxland Co., New South Wales, Australia": 30
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 30

Number of Child Localities: 30
Child Localities:
05 Anomaly
Anomaly 3 Prospect
BMW Anomaly
Browns Lode (South Mount Hope Lode)
Coan Copper Mine
Coan Downs Prospect
Coan Gonn Peak
Comet Mine (Brown Lode)
Double Peak Southeastern Mineralisation
Double Peak Southwestern Mineralisation
Eubalong Road
Great Central Mine (Great Central Copper Mine; McLernons Opencut)
Great Central South Prospect
Hodge Lode (Blue Lode)
Hope Anomaly
J1 Prospect (Salt Creek Prospect)
Kilparney Anomaly
Mount Allen Copper Prospect
Mount Dromedary Mine (Double Peak Northern Mineralisation; Hills Mine)
Mount Hope Copper Mine
Mount Solar Mine (Mount Solar Gold Prospect)
Mount Solitary Gold Mine
Mount Victor Prospect (Salt Creek Mine)
Nombinnie Prospect (Davis Workings)
Powerline HIll Prospect
Quarry Hill Prospect
Siegals Prospect (P4 Prospect)
Sugarloaf Prospect
Wagga Tank Prospect
Woolshed Prospect

Latitude: 32°46'6"S
Longitude: 145°51'27"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -32.768333333333,145.8575

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	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Atacamite	Bismutite	Calcite	Chalcanthite	Chalcopyrite	Clay
Copper	Corundum	Cubanite	Diaspore	Digenite	Feldspar	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	Nickeline
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Talc	Wurtzite

Albite ()*	Alunite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Atacamite ()*
Azurite ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bismutite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Copper ()*	Cubanite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Digenite ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Plumbojarosite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*
Tenorite ()*

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 Cu Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Alunite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Atacamite Bismutite Calcite Chalcanthite Chalcopyrite Clay
Copper Corundum Cubanite Diaspore Digenite Feldspar Kaolinite Malachite Mica Nickeline
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Talc Wurtzite

36 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)	2	4442,4462	8803
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	4469	966
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	4452	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2	4453,4466	9052
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	4460	544
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	12	4444,4445,4449,4450,4452,4454,4456,4458,4459,4460,4466,4469	5509
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	4462	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	1	4462	716
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	4452	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	4442,4444,4452,4456,4463	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4	4442,4456,4460,4463	4979
Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcanthite	Cu(SO₄)·5H₂O	1	4456	925
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	4	4445,4460,4461,4469	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	18	4442,4443,4444,4446,4448,4449,4450,4452,4453,4454,4455,4459,4461,4462,4464,4466,4467,4469	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	4456	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	4	4452,4454,4460,4461	3846
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	4469	802
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	4	4444,4452,4454,4460	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	4469	1027
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	15	4442,4443,4444,4446,4448,4449,4452,4453,4454,4460,4461,4464,4466,4467,4469	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	4449,4464	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	6	4446,4459,4461,4462,4464,4465	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	7	4441,4449,4457,4461,4462,4468,4470	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2	4464,4466	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	3	4448,4463,4469	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	7	4441,4443,4449,4450,4457,4459,4460	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	13	4444,4445,4448,4449,4450,4452,4454,4456,4458,4459,4460,4466,4469	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	9	4442,4443,4448,4453,4462,4464,4466,4468,4469	17380
Plumbojarosite ()*	Alunite	Pb_0.5Fe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	4463	477
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	22	4441,4442,4443,4446,4448,4449,4450,4452,4453,4455,4456,4459,4460,4461,4462,4463,4464,4466,4467,4468,4469,4470	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	10	4442,4443,4452,4453,4455,4460,4461,4466,4468,4469	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	23	4441,4442,4444,4445,4448,4449,4450,4451,4452,4453,4454,4455,4456,4459,4460,4461,4462,4463,4464,4465,4466,4468,4470	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	4453	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	16	4442,4443,4444,4446,4448,4450,4452,4453,4454,4460,4461,4462,4464,4466,4467,4469	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	4	4448,4449,4453,4459	3337
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	4	4444,4448,4454,4460	1101

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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