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Locality Name:
Tumut District, Buccleuch Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 146470
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146470.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tumut District, Buccleuch Co., New South Wales, Australia": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Bogong Copper Mine (Stinking Creek Mine)
Brindabella Range
Emu Mine
Goobarragandra Mine (No 1 Mine; No 2 Mine; X Mine; No 3 Reefs Mine)
Keefe's Mine (Keef's Mine)
McInerney's Mine
Mount Miller Mine
Stokes Reef (Golden Dollar)
Tumut Gold Mine (Tumut Mine)

Latitude: 35°20'59"S
Longitude: 148°26'29"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -35.349722222222,148.44138888889

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.

Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Covellite	Cubanite	Diaspore	Digenite	Malachite	Marcasite	Millerite
Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Wurtzite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chromite ()*	Covellite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Digenite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Millerite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siegenite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*
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 C Co Cr Cu Fe H Mg Ni O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Copper Covellite Cubanite Diaspore Digenite Malachite Marcasite Millerite
Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Wurtzite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	4567	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	3	4558,4562,4567	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	4558	5516
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	4558	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	4558,4562,4566,4567	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	4561	3902
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	3	4558,4562,4567	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	4562	802
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	4558	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	2	4558,4567	1027
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	4558,4567	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	4558,4562	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	4566,4567	30554
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	2	4562,4567	451
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	4558,4562	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	4558,4562,4567	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	4567	5674
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	1	4558	1066
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	2	4558,4562	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	4562,4566,4567	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2	4562,4567	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	4566,4567	61156
Siegenite ()*	Spinel	CoNi₂S₄	1	4558	249
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	4558,4562,4567	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	4562	1934
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	4558	1101

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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