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Locality Name:
Macksville, Raleigh Co., New South Wales, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 146570
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146570.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Macksville, Raleigh Co., New South Wales, Australia": 21
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 21

Number of Child Localities: 21
Child Localities:
Bald Hill Prospect (Bald Hill Quarry Prospect)
Boshells Prospect
Bridge Reef (Sinclairs Reef)
Butchers Road Prospect (Grants Prospect)
Butter Factory Prospect
Campbells Prospect (Compartment 5 Arsenic-Silver Deposit)
Compartment 10 Deposit
Compartment 3 Molybdenite Deposit
Compartment 5 Molybdenite Deposit
Kritschs Claim (Nambucca Molybdenite Company)
Morgans Creek
Myra Lucy Molybdenite Deposit
Newee Creek Silver Mine (Wards Silver Mine; Silver Bell Mine)
North Bald Hill Prospect
Portion 48 Bismuth Prospect
Quirks Reef
Railway Reef
Schools Reef
Tower Road Deposit
Warrell Creek Lead Mine (Madrick And Partys Prospect)
Way Way Creek Molybdenite Prospect (McLeods Molybdenite Mine)

Latitude: 30°44'23"S
Longitude: 152°56'7"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.739722222222,152.93527777778

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 Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AluniteArsenopyriteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteClayClinozoisiteCopperCovelliteEpidote
FeldsparMicaMolybdeniteNickelineNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltScheeliteSphalerite
StibniteTetrahedrite

26 IMA Minerals at location:
Albite  (*)Anglesite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Bismuthinite  (*)Calcite  (*)
Chalcopyrite  (*)Cosalite  (*)Covellite  (*)Epidote  (*)Galena  (*)
Gold  (*)Jarosite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Plumbogummite  (*)
Powellite  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Scheelite  (*)Scorodite  (*)Silver  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Stibnite  (*)
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Albite  (*)FeldsparNa(AlSi3O8)190138803
Anglesite  (*)BarytePb(SO4)190292734
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS109010,9011,9013,9015,9022,9023,9025,9026,9029,90309052
Bismuthinite  (*)StibniteBi2S3190241935
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)29010,902427770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS289010,9011,9016,9020,9022,9024,9028,903027198
Cosalite  (*)NonePb2Bi2S519024344
Covellite  (*)CovelliteCuS29022,90264165
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)190138173
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS69010,9011,9013,9022,9026,902924243
Gold  (*)CopperAu49013,9022,9027,902930554
Jarosite  (*)AluniteKFe3+3(SO4)2(OH)6190292228
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS299015,9016,9017,9018,9019,9020,9021,9028,90305800
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)21901117380
Plumbogummite  (*)AlunitePbAl3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)619029170
Powellite  (*)ScheeliteCa(MoO4)19017494
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS3190221425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2149010,9011,9013,9014,9016,9020,9022,9023,9024,9025,9026,9028,9029,903039462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S829016,90309056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2199010,9011,9012,9013,9014,9015,9017,9018,9019,9020,9021,9022,9023,9024,9025,9026,9027,9029,903061156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)29017,90304894
Scorodite  (*)NoneFe3+(AsO4)·2H2O49010,9011,9015,90261153
Silver  (*)CopperAg190295186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS49010,9022,9026,902921482
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S3190233418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S13190225317



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