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Locality Name:
Poverty Point, Clive Co., New South Wales, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 146486
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146486.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Poverty Point, Clive Co., New South Wales, Australia": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 25

Number of Child Localities: 25
Child Localities:
Big Hill Mine (Poverty Point Prospect; Big Hill Prospect; Temple Of Doom)
Chance Creek Alluvials
Chance Creek East Lode
Chance Creek Lode (Chance Creek Prospect)
Dendrobium Prospect
Donaghy And Skiffington (Poverty Point South)
Duncans Creek Alluvials
Hortons Creek Workings
Hortons Mine (Bonnie Doon Mine)
Lookout Creek Alluvials
Lookout Hill (Surface Hill Deposit)
Mclean's Prospect (MacLeans Prospect)
McLeans Creek Alluvials
Miserable Swamp
Nelsons Creek Alluvials
New Eldorado (Gough And Party; Lees Mine)
Peg Leg Prospect
Poulsons Gully (RMT North Prospect)
Poverty Point Mine
Poverty Point North
Poverty Point Northeast 1
Poverty Point Northeast 2
Poverty Point South (Argentine Open Cut)
RMT (Blacks Mine; RMT Prospect; South Poverty Point)
Upper McLeans Alluvials

Latitude: 29°8'12"S
Longitude: 152°17'44"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -29.136666666667,152.29555555556
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Be Bi Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenicArsenopyriteBerylChalcopyriteClayCopperCorundumKaoliniteMicaMolybdenite
NonePyriteQuartzRocksaltSphalerite

16 IMA Minerals at location:
Arsenic  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Beryl  (*)Bismuth  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Hematite  (*)Kaolinite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)
Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scorodite  (*)Silver  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Arsenic  (*)ArsenicAs15550379
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS35545,5550,55659052
Beryl  (*)BerylBe3Al2Si6O18155604286
Bismuth  (*)ArsenicBi25550,55601966
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS21556527198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS25545,555024243
Gold  (*)CopperAu235542,5543,5544,5545,5546,5547,5548,5549,5550,5551,5552,5554,5555,5556,5557,5558,5559,5560,5561,5562,5563,5564,556530554
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O31555014640
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)4155505591
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS235550,5560,55655800
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)225550,556017380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS235552,5560,556539462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO285544,5545,5547,5552,5554,5557,5560,556461156
Scorodite  (*)NoneFe3+(AsO4)·2H2O25545,55651153
Silver  (*)CopperAg155655186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS1554521482


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