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Locality Name:
Copeton Dam, Hardinge Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 146505
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146505.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Copeton Dam, Hardinge Co., New South Wales, Australia": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Banca Lead
Bourkes Mine
Darbys Rhodonite Mine
Daseys Prospect
Jezs Prospect
Kirks Hill Lead
Litchfields Silver Mine
Maids Creek Alluvials
Malacca Lead
Oaky Creek Lead
Shamrock Mine
Soldier Hill Lead (Soldiers Hill Mine)
Staggy Creek Lead
Stockyard Hill Lead
Wonderland Deep Lead
Yankee Doodle Mine

Latitude: 29°53'41"S
Longitude: 150°59'7"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -29.894722222222,150.98527777778

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.

Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Diamond	Garnet	Malachite
Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite
Spinel	Titanite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Diamond ()*	Diopside ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Grossular ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Scorodite ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Titanite ()*

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 C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mn O Pb S Si Sn Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Diamond Garnet Malachite
Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite
Spinel Titanite

22 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	4	8377,8380,8386,8391	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	8380	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	8388	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	10	8376,8381,8383,8384,8385,8386,8387,8388,8389,8390	5171
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	8380	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	8380,8386,8391	27198
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	9	8376,8381,8383,8384,8385,8387,8388,8389,8390	697
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	8388	4135
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5	8377,8380,8382,8386,8391	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	8385,8387	30554
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	8388	1544
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	8388	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	8388	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	8380	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	8377,8386,8391	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6	8377,8380,8382,8386,8388,8391	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	8377,8379,8380,8382,8386,8391	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	8378	969
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	2	8380,8386	1153
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2	8382,8386	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	8377,8380,8386,8391	21482
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	8388	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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