Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Hikuai, Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato Region, New Zealand

mindat Locality ID: 155844
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-155844.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hikuai, Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato Region, New Zealand": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Broken Hills Mine
Conqueror Mine
Coronation Mine
Golden Hills Mine
Monarch Mine (Monarch Consolidated)
Puketui Road Mordenite Locality
Tairua River
Triumph Mine

Latitude: 37°7'5"S
Longitude: 175°44'13"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -37.118055555556,175.73694444444

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.

Acanthite	Amorphous	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore
Epidote	Feldspar	Kaolinite	Lepidocrocite	Marcasite	Mica	Mordenite	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Tridymite	Uytenbogaardtite

Acanthite ()*	Aguilarite ()*	Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Baryte ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Epidote ()*
Fayalite ()*	Fischesserite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*
Mordenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Naumannite ()*	Opal ()*	Petrovskaite ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Trechmannite ()*	Tridymite ()*	Uytenbogaardtite ()*

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: Ag Al As Au Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Se Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amorphous Baryte Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore
Epidote Feldspar Kaolinite Lepidocrocite Marcasite Mica Mordenite None Not in a structural group Olivine
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Tridymite Uytenbogaardtite

34 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	88408	2793
Aguilarite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₄SeS	1	88408	87
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	88408	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	88408	2162
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	88408,88415	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	88415	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	88408	5707
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	88408	1382
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	88408	4165
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	88415	8173
Fayalite ()*	Olivine	Fe²⁺₂(SiO₄)	2	88413,88415	371
Fischesserite ()*	None	Ag₃AuSe₂	1	88408	24
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	88408	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	88408	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	88408,88410,88411,88412,88416	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	88413,88415	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	3	88408,88410,88411	5591
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	88408	581
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	88408	5674
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	88408	1508
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	2	88413,88415	405
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	88408	17380
Naumannite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ag₂Se	1	88408	192
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2	88408,88415	2994
Petrovskaite ()*	None	AuAgS	1	88408	9
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	88415	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	88408,88411,88415,88416	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	88408,88410,88411,88413,88415,88416	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	88415	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	88408	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	88408	21482
Trechmannite ()*	None	AgAsS₂	1	88408	7
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	88415	458
Uytenbogaardtite ()*	Uytenbogaardtite	Ag₃AuS₂	1	88408	46

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...