Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 15553
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-15553.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Howe's Creek Phosphate Belt
Mt Table Top
Phosphate Hill

Latitude: 36°55'24"S
Longitude: 146°5'14"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -36.923333333333,146.08722222222

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	Apatite	Clay	Gypsum	Malachite	Mica	None	Phosphuranylite	Pyrite	Quartz
Turquoise	Wavellite

Cacoxenite ()*	Faustite ()*	Fluellite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Phosphuranylite ()*	Planerite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Strengite ()*	Torbernite ()*	Turquoise ()*
Variscite ()*	Wavellite ()*

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 C Ca Cu F Fe H K O P S Si U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Apatite Clay Gypsum Malachite Mica None Phosphuranylite Pyrite Quartz
Turquoise Wavellite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cacoxenite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂₄AlO₆(PO₄)₁₇(OH)₁₂·75H₂O	2	14354,14356	280
Faustite ()*	Turquoise	ZnAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	14356	24
Fluellite ()*	None	Al₂(PO₄)F₂(OH)·7H₂O	2	14354,14356	40
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	14356	2740
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	14356	6890
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	14355	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	14355	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	14356	2994
Phosphuranylite ()*	Phosphuranylite	KCa(H₃O)₃(UO₂)₇(PO₄)₄O₄·8H₂O	1	14355	182
Planerite ()*	Turquoise	Al₆(PO₄)₂(PO₃OH)₂(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	14356	43
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	14356	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	14356	61156
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	14356	263
Torbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O	1	14355	1059
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	14356	484
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	14356	301
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	2	14354,14356	374

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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