Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Coolgardie, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2742
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2550

mindat Locality ID: 147013
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-147013.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Coolgardie, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 47
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 45

Number of Child Localities: 41
Child Localities:
A-Cap Gold Mine (Lady Grace South)
Baker's Find Pit
Barbara Gold Mine (SBS 28 Complex; Shirl-Barbara-Surprise Complex)
Bayleys Reward Gold Mine
Bellbird Gold Mine (La Mascotte)
Big Blow East
Big Blow Gold Mine
Bonham Gold Mine
Bonnievale Gold Mine (Westralia; Varischetti)
Burbanks Gold Mine (Baker-Burbanks)
Caledonia Gold Mine (Three Mile Hill; Greenfields)
Chatanooka Gold Mine
Coolgardie South Gold Mine
Dreadnought Gold Mine
Dunallen Gold Mine
Empress Of Coolgardie Gold Mine (Empress)
Flagstaff Gold Mine
Gala Gold Mine
Golden Bar Gold Mine (Jones)
Grosmont (Grossmont) District
Gunga Gold Mine (Gunga West)
Hampton Group
King Solomon Gold Mine (King Solomon's)
Kings Cross Gold Mine
Lady Charlotte Gold Mine
Lady Marie Gold Mine
Lady Robinson Gold Mine
Lindsays Gold Mine (Queens Cross)
McPherson's Reward Gold Mine (Macphersons Reward)
Mungari Emerald Deposit
Mungari Grey Quarries (Mungari Grey 1; Mungari Grey 2)
New Australasian Gold Mine (Australasian; New Australasian Group)
Queen Of Sheba Gold Mine
Reid's Find Gold Mine
Rose Hill Gold Mine (Queensbury)
Sherlaw's Perseverance Gold Mine (Sherlaw's; Perseverance)
The Camel Paddock Gold Leases
Tindals Gold Mine
Ubini Pegmatite
Union Jack Gold Mine
Williams Opal Mine (Three Mile Hill Mine)

Latitude: 30°58'8"S
Longitude: 121°10'45"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.968888888889,121.17916666667

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.

Amorphous	Amphibole	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Beryl	Bismutite	Calcite	Cancrinite-sodalite	Chalcopyrite	Clay
Clinozoisite	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Löllingite
Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pharmacosiderite	Prehnite	Pyrite	Pyroxene
Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Serpentine	Smectite-vermiculite	Sodalite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stannite
Talc	Tetradymite	Titanite	Topaz	Vivianite

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 As Au Be Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H K Li Mg Mn Mo Na Nb Ni O P Pb S Si Sn Ta Te Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Amphibole Arsenic Arsenopyrite Beryl Bismutite Calcite Cancrinite-sodalite Chalcopyrite Clay
Clinozoisite Columbite Copper Corundum Epidote Feldspar Garnet Gypsum Kaolinite Löllingite
Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Olivine Pharmacosiderite Prehnite Pyrite Pyroxene
Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Serpentine Smectite-vermiculite Sodalite Sphalerite Spinel Stannite
Talc Tetradymite Titanite Topaz Vivianite

56 IMA Minerals at location:

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Amblygonite ()*	Annabergite ()*
Antigorite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Beryl ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismutite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Corundum ()*
Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Forsterite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Helvine ()*	Hematite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Ixiolite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Koechlinite ()*	Löllingite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Montebrasite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Nontronite ()*	Opal ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pharmacosiderite ()*	Prehnite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Scheelite ()*
Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spodumene ()*	Stannite ()*	Talc ()*
Tantalite-(Mn) ()*	Tetradymite ()*	Titanite ()*	Topaz ()*	Tremolite ()*
Tschermakite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2742	2670	5	15098,15103,15124,15128,15140	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2742	2550	5	15097,15105,15116,15138,15139	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2742	2670	2	15105,15138	2353
Amblygonite ()*	None	LiAl(PO₄)F	2742	2670	1	15139	244
Annabergite ()*	Vivianite	Ni₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	2742	2670	1	15140	445
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2742	2670	1	15098	708
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2742	2670	9	15098,15103,15104,15105,15111,15124,15128,15137,15138	9052
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	2742	2670	1	15130	4286
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	2742	2670	1	15104	1966
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	2550	2550	1	15097	716
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2742	2550	9	15097,15098,15103,15105,15124,15128,15132,15136,15138	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	2742	2550	2	15097,15139	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2742	2670	5	15098,15105,15124,15137,15138	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2742	2670	1	15113	3846
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	2742	2670	1	15139	1797
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2742	2670	1	15113	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2742	2670	1	15098	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2742	2670	3	15103,15124,15132	8173
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	2742	2670	1	15138	1188
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2742	2670	8	15098,15101,15103,15104,15105,15123,15124,15140	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2742	2550	33	15095,15096,15097,15098,15099,15101,15103,15104,15105,15106,15107,15108,15109,15110,15111,15113,15115,15118,15123,15124,15125,15126,15127,15128,15129,15132,15133,15134,15135,15136,15137,15138,15140	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	2742	2670	2	15098,15141	2812
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2742	2670	1	15136	6890
Helvine ()*	Sodalite Cancrinite-sodalite	Be₃Mn²⁺₄(SiO₄)₃S	2550	2550	1	15097	237
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2742	2670	1	15101	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2742	2670	6	15098,15103,15105,15124,15128,15138	5433
Ixiolite ()*	Columbite	(Ta_2/3Mn²⁺_1/3)O₂	2550	2550	1	15097	148
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2742	2670	2	15124,15135	5591
Koechlinite ()*	None	Bi₂MoO₆	2684	2673	1	15109	39
Löllingite ()*	Löllingite	FeAs₂	2742	2670	1	15128	762
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2742	2670	2	15103,15138	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2742	2670	3	15116,15131,15139	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2550	2550	1	15097	5800
Montebrasite ()*	None	LiAl(PO₄)(OH)	2742	2670	1	15139	200
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2742	2670	5	15116,15128,15131,15132,15139	17380
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	2550	2550	1	15097	471
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2742	2670	2	15116,15141	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2742	2670	1	15138	2349
Pharmacosiderite ()*	Pharmacosiderite	KFe³⁺₄(AsO₄)₃(OH)₄·6-7H₂O	2742	2670	1	15098	428
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2742	2670	4	15105,15124,15128,15136	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2742	2670	9	15098,15101,15103,15104,15111,15128,15136,15137,15138	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2742	2670	8	15098,15103,15105,15124,15128,15129,15137,15138	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2742	2550	21	15097,15098,15101,15103,15104,15105,15108,15109,15116,15123,15124,15128,15129,15132,15134,15135,15137,15138,15139,15140,15141	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	2550	2550	1	15097	1711
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	2742	2670	6	15098,15105,15124,15128,15137,15138	4894
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	2550	2550	1	15097	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2742	2550	6	15097,15098,15103,15104,15124,15138	21482
Spodumene ()*	Pyroxene	LiAlSi₂O₆	2550	2550	1	15097	688
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄	2742	2670	1	15098	668
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2742	2670	3	15098,15138,15140	3337
Tantalite-(Mn) ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺Ta₂O₆	2742	2670	1	15139	211
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	2684	2673	1	15109	510
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2742	2670	3	15105,15124,15128	4899
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	2742	2670	1	15116	1476
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2742	2670	2	15098,15138	2562
Tschermakite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg₃Al₂)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂	2742	2670	1	15105	73

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
Be-00052	2550	2550	2550		high					Danalite	Be	211612	Barbara Gold Mine (SBS 28 Complex; Shirl-Barbara-Surprise Complex), Coolgardie, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia		Jacobson et al. (2007)		BOOK_GPWA
Mo-00121	2684	2673		U-Pb		zircon			Zircon	Koechlinite	Mo	10826	Dunallen Gold Mine, Coolgardie, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia		Knight et al. (1993); Knight et al. (2000)
Mo-N382_703-0001	2742	2670	2706±36	Re-Os isochron			Z58542, Z55765, Z55710, Z55725, Z58502, Z58507, Z5	Yes			Mo	225	Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Kambalada, Perseverance, and Mt. Keith	Foster et al. (1996)	10.1038/382703a0	N382_703

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
X050114	Coolgardie, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia	https://rruff.info/X050114

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