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


mindat Locality ID: 146621
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-146621.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wellesley Co., New South Wales, Australia": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Delegate
Wolfram Wonder Mines

Latitude: 36°48'49"S
Longitude: 149°9'26"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -36.813611111111,149.15722222222

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: Al Bi Cr Cu Fe H Mg Mn Mo Ni O P S Si W 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenicChalcopyriteCubaniteIronMolybdeniteNonePentlanditePyritePyrochloreRocksalt
SapphirineSphaleriteValleriite

15 IMA Minerals at location:
Alabandite  (*)Bismuth  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Hydrokenoelsmoreite  (*)Iron  (*)
Isocubanite  (*)Mackinawite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Pentlandite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Sapphirine  (*)Schreibersite  (*)Taenite  (*)Troilite  (*)Valleriite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Alabandite  (*)RocksaltMnS19993312
Bismuth  (*)ArsenicBi199951966
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS21999327198
Hydrokenoelsmoreite  (*)Pyrochlore   2W2O6(H2O)1999557
Iron  (*)IronFe199931089
Isocubanite  (*)Sphalerite CubaniteCuFe2S319993191
Mackinawite  (*)None(Fe,Ni)1+xS (x = 0-0.07)19993451
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS2199955800
Pentlandite  (*)Pentlandite(Ni,Fe)9S8199931512
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS21999539462
Sapphirine  (*)SapphirineMg4(Mg3Al9)O4[Si3Al9O36]19992129
Schreibersite  (*)None(Fe,Ni)3P19993374
Taenite  (*)None(Ni,Fe)19993703
Troilite  (*)NoneFeS199931044
Valleriite  (*)Valleriite2[(Fe,Cu)S]·1.53[(Mg,Al)(OH)2]19993237



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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