Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Collingwood, Tasman Region, New Zealand

mindat Locality ID: 15370
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-15370.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Collingwood, Tasman Region, New Zealand": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Ironstone Creek
Mt Burnett Quarry
Onekaka River
Parapara Inlet Quarry
Plumbago Creek
Puponga Mine
Richmond Flat
Wynne And Son Mine

Latitude: 40°41'14"S
Longitude: 172°39'13"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -40.687222222222,172.65361111111

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.

Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet
Mica	None	Pseudobrookite	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Zircon

Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chromite ()*	Corundum ()*
Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Grossular ()*	Hematite ()*	Iridium ()*
Magnetite ()*	Margarite ()*	Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*	Osmium ()*
Platinum ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutheniridosmine ()*	Rutile ()*
Uvarovite ()*	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: Al As C Ca Cr Fe H Ir K Mg O Os Pb Pt Ru S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Fe S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenopyrite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Feldspar Garnet
Mica None Pseudobrookite Quartz Rutile Spinel Zircon

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	0		9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	88176,88179	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	88179	4979
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	3	88177,88178,88179	3902
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	88181	1797
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	88176	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	88179	8173
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	88179	1544
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	88176	14640
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir	1	88175	162
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	88178,88179	14899
Margarite ()*	Mica Clay	CaAl₂Si₂Al₂O₁₀(OH)₂	1	88177	168
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	88179	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	88177,88178,88179	17380
Osmium ()*	None	Os	1	88175	169
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	1	88175	485
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	1	88178	164
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	88178,88179	61156
Rutheniridosmine ()*	None	(Ir,Os,Ru)	1	88175	47
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	3	88177,88178,88179	5614
Uvarovite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Cr₂(SiO₄)₃	1	88179	212
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	88177,88178	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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