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:
Brisbane Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 146465
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146465.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Brisbane Co., New South Wales, Australia": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Bunnan
Merriwa
Murrurundi
Scone
Scone Teschenite Sills
Wingen

Latitude: 31°58'36"S
Longitude: 150°40'25"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -31.976666666667,150.67361111111

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.

Amphibole	Aragonite	Calcite	Chabazite	Cristobalite	Erionite	Feldspar	Gypsum	Natrolite	None
Not in a structural group	Pyroxene	Spinel	Thomsonite	Tridymite

Aegirine ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Cristobalite ()*
Diopside ()*	Erionite-Ca ()*	Gypsum ()*	Kaersutite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Offretite ()*	Sanidine ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*
Todorokite ()*	Tridymite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Fe H K Mg Mn Na O S Si Sr Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Aragonite Calcite Chabazite Cristobalite Erionite Feldspar Gypsum Natrolite None
Not in a structural group Pyroxene Spinel Thomsonite Tridymite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	1	4532	1022
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	4526,4528	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	4526,4528,4531	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	1	4526	310
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	4534	453
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	4532	4135
Erionite-Ca ()*	Erionite	Ca₅[Si₂₆Al₁₀O₇₂]·30H₂O	1	4527	31
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	4530	6890
Kaersutite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Mg₃AlTi⁴⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂O₂	1	4532	179
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	4532	14899
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	1	4526	425
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	4528	1236
Offretite ()*	Not in a structural group	KCaMg(Si₁₃Al₅)O₃₆·15H₂O	1	4528	146
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	4532	598
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	1	4526	452
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	1	4526	433
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	4534	458

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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