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Locality Name:
Phillip Co., New South Wales, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 146568
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146568.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Phillip Co., New South Wales, Australia": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Lue
Mount Buckaroo

Latitude: 32°36'31"S
Longitude: 149°46'46"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -32.608611111111,149.77944444444

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 As C Ca Cl Cu Fe Ge O Pb S Sb Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteArgyroditeArsenopyriteCalciteNonePolybasitePyriteRocksaltSphaleriteTetrahedrite

11 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Argyrodite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Calcite  (*)Chlorargyrite  (*)
Galena  (*)Pearceite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S189472793
Argyrodite  (*)ArgyroditeAg8GeS61894762
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS189479052
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)1894927770
Chlorargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgCl189471382
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS1894724243
Pearceite  (*)Polybasite[Ag9CuS4][(Ag,Cu)6(As,Sb)2S7]18947249
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS21894739462
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS1894721482
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S13189471803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S13189475317



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