Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Drake District, Buller Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 146469
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146469.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Drake District, Buller Co., New South Wales, Australia": 116
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 115

Number of Child Localities: 111
Child Localities:
Addisons Mine (Addisons Reef)
Aikmans Reef
Alderman Reef 1
Alderman Reef 2
Aldermans Prospect (Aldermans Reef)
Anvil Mine
Ashburys Prospect
Bates & Co Prospect
Battered Billy Prospect
Battery Creek Prospect
Battery Creek South
Beech Road Prospect
Bells Prospect (Bells Deposit)
Border Chief Mine
Boydells Prospect
Caledonian Reef (Mt Hooton Claim)
Caledonian Reef North
Callanyn Prospect
Cataract River Molybdenite
Cataract River Occurrence
Clifton Reef
Cohen And Co Lode
Cohens Prospect 1 (Cataract Prospect)
Cohens Prospect 2
Collins Gully
Copenhagen Reef
Crossword Prospect
Cryptic Anomally
Currans Reef (The Curran Reef)
Donovan Reef (Donovan & Amos Reef)
Emu Creek Copper Mine
Emu Creek Occurrence
Emu-Ginnies Creek Prospect (Girard Prospect)
Exhibition Reef
Fence Prospect
Gilgurry State Forest
Girard Creek
Golden Age Mine (Silver Age Mine; Mariners; No 1 Golden Age South)
Golden Crown Reef 1 (Golden Crown Reef South End; London Reef North End; Gully Shaft)
Golden Crown Reef 2
Graham Reef
Grand Junction Reef (Old Golconda Shaft)
Gully View Prospect
Halloran & Hawkins Prospect
Happy Valley Reef (Hurleys Reef)
Heathen Chinee Mine (Minerva Reef; White Rock West)
Hillside Prospect 3
Honeymans Prospect
Horton & Parker Prospect
Hughes & Jackson Reef
John Moffatt Reef
Johnson & Party Reef
Johnsons Prospect (Johnson & Party Prospect)
Junction North Lode
Junction Prospect
Kimberley Mine
Lady Lee Reef
Lanes Workings
Leviathan Reef (The Leviathan Claim)
Little Victoria Reef (Halloran & Co Prospect; Watsons)
London Reef North
Lord Loftus Reef
Lovelys Reef
Lower Ridge Prospect
Lunatic Gully Alluvials
Lunatic Reef
Lunatic West
MacFadyen Prospect
Madmans Prospect
Martins Gully Mine
McRae Prospect
Monteiths Prospect
Morgans Creek Mine
Morning Star Reef (Martins Lead; Martins Reef)
Morning Star Reef 1 (Morning Star Reef)
Mount Carrington Group
Murray Reef
Mysterious Reef
Navvies Creek Molybdenite (Navvies Creek Deposit)
Navvies Creek Prospect
New Comstock Reef (Comstock Reef)
Nil Desperandum Alluvials
Nil Desperandum Reef (Wellington Mine)
North Pole Reef
Oriental Reef
Parkers Prospect (Rogers Reef)
Perseverance Reef
Poulsen & Party Reef
Poulsons Gully
Red Rock
Ridge Heights Prospect
Robinson & Co Lode
Rogers Deposit
Saddle Prospect
Silver King Mine 3
Taylors Prospect
Tenterfield Reef
Trackside Prospect
Unnamed Prospect
Unnamed Prospect 2
Upper Ridge Prospect
Victoria Reef 1 (Victoria Reef; Weirs Shaft; Johnsons Claim; Morning Star South)
Victoria Reef 2 (Victoria Claim)
Walsh And Co Deposit
Well Aligned Workings
White Rock Extended
White Rock Mine (Silver Queen Mine)
White Rock North Prospect
Woolshed Reef
Woolshed Reef Southwest (Alderman Reef Southwest)
Yoshmasters Lode

Latitude: 28°51'37"S
Longitude: 152°20'59"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -28.860277777778,152.34972222222

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.

Acanthite	Aragonite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Covellite
Cubanite	Digenite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite
Titanite	Vesuvianite	Wollastonite	Wurtzite

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 Cl Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Sb Si Sn Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Aragonite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite
Cubanite Digenite Kaolinite Malachite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Polybasite
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Tetrahedrite
Titanite Vesuvianite Wollastonite Wurtzite

52 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Arsenic ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*
Bismuth ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Cervantite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Copper ()*
Covellite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Digenite ()*	Djurleite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pearceite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Powellite ()*	Proustite ()*
Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Scorodite ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stephanite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Titanite ()*
Vesuvianite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	3	4598,4635,4637	2793
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	2	4636,4673	3092
Arsenic ()*	Arsenic	As	1	4636	379
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	6	4598,4607,4624,4625,4647,4712	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	5	4611,4628,4653,4670,4706	5509
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	4677	1966
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	4	4602,4611,4673,4708	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	21	4599,4602,4611,4615,4623,4624,4625,4630,4635,4636,4637,4639,4647,4652,4663,4673,4677,4680,4683,4684,4687	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	4677	5171
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	4709	4979
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	5	4641,4657,4663,4684,4696	352
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	7	4598,4611,4615,4628,4670,4673,4709	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	15	4598,4607,4611,4624,4625,4628,4643,4653,4670,4673,4687,4690,4706,4708,4709	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	2	4635,4680	1382
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	4611	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	4	4611,4628,4688,4709	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	4611	802
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	4628	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	4611	1027
Djurleite ()*	None	Cu₃₁S₁₆	1	4709	300
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	4636,4709	9895
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	1	4670	345
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	21	4598,4605,4621,4630,4635,4637,4639,4642,4643,4649,4652,4653,4669,4673,4680,4687,4688,4691,4692,4709,4710	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	70	4598,4599,4600,4601,4602,4604,4606,4608,4611,4612,4613,4614,4618,4623,4624,4627,4630,4632,4634,4636,4637,4638,4639,4640,4642,4643,4644,4647,4650,4651,4653,4655,4657,4658,4659,4661,4662,4663,4665,4666,4667,4668,4671,4672,4673,4674,4678,4679,4680,4682,4683,4684,4685,4686,4687,4688,4693,4695,4696,4697,4698,4699,4700,4702,4703,4704,4707,4708,4709,4712	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	4661,4673	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	5	4611,4630,4639,4663,4709	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	4684,4709	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	8	4598,4611,4615,4628,4653,4670,4688,4706	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	5	4616,4617,4670,4676,4677	5800
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	4687	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	20	4606,4616,4623,4630,4635,4637,4648,4654,4659,4663,4667,4673,4674,4678,4694,4708,4709,4710,4711,4712	17380
Pearceite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(As,Sb)₂S₇]	4	4611,4687,4691,4692	249
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	2	4611,4637	716
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	1	4677	494
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	4	4637,4687,4691,4692	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	2	4637,4709	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	57	4598,4599,4601,4602,4603,4605,4606,4607,4612,4615,4618,4620,4621,4624,4626,4628,4630,4635,4638,4639,4642,4643,4647,4648,4649,4650,4652,4656,4661,4663,4664,4667,4669,4670,4673,4678,4680,4683,4684,4687,4688,4691,4692,4695,4696,4697,4698,4699,4701,4702,4706,4708,4709,4710,4711,4712,4713	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	4	4607,4624,4652,4677	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	76	4598,4599,4601,4602,4603,4604,4605,4606,4608,4611,4612,4613,4614,4615,4616,4618,4619,4620,4623,4624,4626,4627,4630,4632,4635,4636,4637,4638,4641,4642,4643,4646,4647,4648,4650,4651,4652,4653,4654,4656,4657,4659,4660,4661,4663,4664,4667,4669,4671,4672,4673,4674,4675,4677,4678,4680,4682,4683,4684,4693,4694,4695,4696,4697,4699,4701,4703,4704,4705,4706,4708,4709,4710,4711,4712,4713	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	4677	4894
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	2	4598,4712	1153
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	6	4632,4636,4647,4684,4709,4710	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	34	4598,4602,4603,4605,4606,4608,4611,4615,4618,4621,4626,4635,4637,4639,4642,4648,4649,4652,4656,4675,4678,4680,4682,4687,4697,4699,4701,4705,4706,4709,4710,4711,4712,4713	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	4639	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	23	4598,4603,4605,4628,4630,4635,4637,4639,4642,4643,4652,4669,4670,4673,4680,4687,4688,4689,4691,4692,4698,4709,4710	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	1	4709	586
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	16	4602,4610,4613,4636,4641,4646,4647,4650,4657,4658,4663,4664,4684,4693,4695,4696	3418
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	4	4611,4628,4673,4709	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	6	4598,4673,4687,4691,4692,4709	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	4687	4899
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1	4677	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	4677	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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