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Locality Name:
Lyttelton, Christchurch City, Canterbury Region, New Zealand

mindat Locality ID: 15155
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-15155.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lyttelton, Christchurch City, Canterbury Region, New Zealand": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Cass Peak
Lyttelton Harbour
Lyttelton Harbour Board Quarry
Teddington Quarry

Latitude: 43°37'26"S
Longitude: 172°40'48"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -43.623888888889,172.68

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.

Amphibole	Analcime	Aragonite	Calcite	Chabazite	Feldspar	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Spinel	Tridymite

Analcime ()*	Anatase ()*	Aragonite ()*	Arfvedsonite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Cowlesite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sanidine ()*	Todorokite ()*	Tridymite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Fe H K Mg Mn Na O S Si Sr Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Analcime Aragonite Calcite Chabazite Feldspar None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Spinel Tridymite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	87436	1627
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	87437	2162
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	87436	3250
Arfvedsonite ()*	Amphibole	NaNa₂(Fe²⁺₄Fe³⁺)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	87434	295
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	87436	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	1	87436	310
Cowlesite ()*	None	Ca(Al₂Si₃)O₁₀·5-6H₂O	1	87436	84
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	87436	9895
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	87435	14899
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	87435	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	87436	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	87434,87437	61156
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	3	87434,87435,87437	598
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	1	87436	433
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	87435	458

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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