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Locality Name:
Kawerau District, Bay Of Plenty Region, New Zealand

mindat Locality ID: 15248
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-15248.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kawerau District, Bay Of Plenty Region, New Zealand": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Kawerau Geothermal Field

Latitude: 38°3'31"S
Longitude: 176°43'14"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -38.058611111111,176.72055555556

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.

Analcime	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Cristobalite	Epidote	Feldspar	Mica
None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Sphalerite	Sulphur	Tridymite

Albite ()*	Alunite ()*	Anatase ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*
Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Cristobalite ()*	Epidote ()*
Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*	Tridymite ()*
Wairakite ()*

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 Na O S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba O S Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Cristobalite Epidote Feldspar Mica
None Not in a structural group Quartz Sphalerite Sulphur Tridymite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	87381	8803
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	87381	966
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	0		2162
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	87381	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	87381	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	87381	27770
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	87381	1025
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	87381	453
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	87381	8173
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	87381	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	87381	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	87381	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	87381	2045
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	87381	458
Wairakite ()*	Analcime	Ca(Si₄Al₂)O₁₂·2H₂O	1	87381	73

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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