Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

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

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.

Arsenic	Chalcopyrite	Cubanite	Iron	Molybdenite	None	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Rocksalt
Sapphirine	Sphalerite	Valleriite

Alabandite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Hydrokenoelsmoreite ()*	Iron ()*
Isocubanite ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Sapphirine ()*	Schreibersite ()*	Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*	Valleriite ()*

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:
Arsenic Chalcopyrite Cubanite Iron Molybdenite None Pentlandite Pyrite Pyrochlore Rocksalt
Sapphirine Sphalerite Valleriite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	1	9993	312
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	9995	1966
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	9993	27198
Hydrokenoelsmoreite ()*	Pyrochlore	₂W₂O₆(H₂O)	1	9995	57
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	9993	1089
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	1	9993	191
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	9993	451
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	9995	5800
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	9993	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	9995	39462
Sapphirine ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₄(Mg₃Al₉)O₄[Si₃Al₉O₃₆]	1	9992	129
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	1	9993	374
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	9993	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	9993	1044
Valleriite ()*	Valleriite	2[(Fe,Cu)S]·1.53[(Mg,Al)(OH)₂]	1	9993	237

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...