Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand

Oldest recorded age at locality: 109.1
Youngest recorded age at locality: 80

mindat Locality ID: 15243
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-15243.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 41°51'56"S
Longitude: 171°46'53"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -41.865555555556,171.78138888889

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.

Autunite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Devilline	Fluorite	Meta-autunite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Schoepite
Zippeite	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Ankerite ()*	Autunite ()*	Becquerelite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Coffinite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*
Metatorbernite ()*	Natrozippeite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Rutherfordine ()*	Saléeite ()*
Schoepite ()*	Serpierite ()*	Sklodowskite ()*	Torbernite ()*	Tyuyamunite ()*
Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*	Zircon ()*

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: C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg Na O P S Si Ti U V Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg Na O P S Si Ti U V Zn Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Autunite Calcite Chalcopyrite Devilline Fluorite Meta-autunite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Schoepite
Zippeite Zircon

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	109.1	80	2162
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	109.1	80	3092
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	109.1	80	1272
Becquerelite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₆O₄(OH)₆·8H₂O	109.1	80	92
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	109.1	80	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	109.1	80	27198
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O	109.1	80	566
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	109.1	80	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	109.1	80	9617
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	109.1	80	388
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	109.1	80	443
Natrozippeite ()*	Zippeite	Na₅(UO₂)₈(SO₄)₄O₅(OH)₃·12H₂O	109.1	80	41
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	109.1	80	39462
Rutherfordine ()*	None	(UO₂)(CO₃)	109.1	80	58
Saléeite ()*	None	Mg(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂(H₂O)₁₀	109.1	80	95
Schoepite ()*	Schoepite	(UO₂)₄O(OH)₆(H₂O)₆	109.1	80	94
Serpierite ()*	Devilline	Ca(Cu,Zn)₄(SO₄)₂(OH)₆·3H₂O	109.1	80	292
Sklodowskite ()*	None	Mg(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·6H₂O	109.1	80	56
Torbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O	109.1	80	1059
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O	109.1	80	628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	109.1	80	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	109.1	80	890
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	109.1	80	5251

7 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	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
Giersdorf_00000778	109	109	109	K-Ar		muscovite	HCB(t)-1	Muscovite	Muscovite	15243	Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand	Hawks Crag	Spell et al. (2000)	10.1029/1999TC900046	T19_433	Age acquired from 92% of the results during the experimentation
Giersdorf_00000779	109.1	108.7	108.9±0.2	K-Ar	high	muscovite	HCB(t)-1	Muscovite	Muscovite	15243	Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand	Hawks Crag	Spell et al. (2000)	10.1029/1999TC900046	T19_433	Total gas age
Giersdorf_00000780	96	80	96-80	K-Ar		orthoclase	HCB(t)-1	Orthoclase	Orthoclase	15243	Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand	Hawks Crag	Spell et al. (2000)	10.1029/1999TC900046	T19_433	Age yielded from the sampling of the first 10% of the emitted gas
Giersdorf_00000781	99	96	99-96	K-Ar		orthoclase	HCB(t)-1	Orthoclase	Orthoclase	15243	Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand	Hawks Crag	Spell et al. (2000)	10.1029/1999TC900046	T19_433	Age yielded from the remaining 90% of the gas in comparison to the above entry
Giersdorf_00000782	96.6	96.2	96.4±0.2	K-Ar	high	orthoclase	HCB(t)-1	Orthoclase	Orthoclase	15243	Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand	Hawks Crag	Spell et al. (2000)	10.1029/1999TC900046	T19_433	Total gas age
Giersdorf_00000783	103	103	103	K-Ar		muscovite	HCB(b)-3	Muscovite	Muscovite	15243	Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand	Hawks Crag	Spell et al. (2000)	10.1029/1999TC900046	T19_433	Slightly younger age that is disregarded due to the remaining samples all lining up with the age of 108
Giersdorf_00000784	108.3	107.7	108±0.3	K-Ar	high	muscovite	HCB(b)-3	Muscovite	Muscovite	15243	Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand	Hawks Crag	Spell et al. (2000)	10.1029/1999TC900046	T19_433	Total gas age

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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