Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Kondinin Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 3000
Youngest recorded age at locality: 3000

mindat Locality ID: 16941
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-16941.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kondinin Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Antimony Nickel Prospect
Beautiful Sunday Prospect
Blue Haze Gold Mine
Cosmic Boy Ni Mine
Crossroads Ni Prospect
Digger Rocks Ni Mine (Diggers Rock; South Endeavour)
Digger Rocks South Ni Mine (South Endeavour)
Flying Fox Mine (Flying Fox Ni Mine)
Hatter's Hill Gold Mine
Liquid Acrobat Ni Prospect
Mount Hope Prospect
New Morning Ni Prospect
Ratbat Prospect
Seagull Prospect
South Ironcap Ni Prospect
Spotted Quoll Mine

Latitude: 32°31'12"S
Longitude: 119°44'38"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -32.52,119.74388888889

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.

Amphibole	Andalusite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Cubanite	Epidote	Malachite	Marcasite
Mica	Millerite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Pyroxene
Quartz	Scheelite	Spinel	Talc	Wurtzite

Actinolite ()*	Andalusite ()*	Anthophyllite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Diopside ()*
Enstatite ()*	Epidote ()*	Forsterite ()*	Gold ()*	Grunerite ()*
Heazlewoodite ()*	Irarsite ()*	Linnaeite ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Maucherite ()*	Millerite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Polydymite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Sperrylite ()*	Sudburyite ()*	Talc ()*	Tremolite ()*	Vaesite ()*
Violarite ()*

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 Au C Ca Co Cr Cu Fe H Ir K Mg Mo Ni O Pd Pt S Sb Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Andalusite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Cubanite Epidote Malachite Marcasite
Mica Millerite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Olivine Pentlandite Pyrite Pyroxene
Quartz Scheelite Spinel Talc Wurtzite

41 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			1	17045	3419
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅			1	17050	1310
Anthophyllite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	3000	3000	7	17046,17048,17049,17052,17054,17055,17057	718
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			1	17051	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄			2	17047,17053	5516
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			1	17053	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			9	17043,17044,17047,17048,17049,17050,17052,17053,17054	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄			1	17052	3902
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃			1	17053	802
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆			2	17046,17050	4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆			2	17048,17054	944
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	17051	8173
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)			1	17048	1188
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			3	17045,17051,17058	30554
Grunerite ()*	Amphibole	Fe²⁺₂Fe²⁺₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			3	17046,17048,17052	223
Heazlewoodite ()*	None	Ni₃S₂			1	17053	205
Irarsite ()*	Pyrite	IrAsS			1	17058	154
Linnaeite ()*	Spinel	Co²⁺Co³⁺₂S₄			1	17047	249
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)			1	17053	451
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3000	3000	7	17046,17048,17050,17052,17054,17055,17056	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			1	17051	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			1	17052	5674
Maucherite ()*	None	Ni₁₁As₈			1	17047	161
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS			6	17044,17046,17047,17048,17049,17053	1066
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			1	17051	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			1	17054	17380
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs			2	17047,17058	633
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS			2	17047,17058	767
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈			12	17043,17044,17046,17047,17048,17049,17050,17052,17053,17054,17057,17058	1512
Polydymite ()*	Spinel	Ni²⁺Ni³⁺₂S₄			1	17053	131
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			11	17043,17044,17046,17047,17048,17049,17050,17052,17053,17054,17057	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			9	17043,17044,17046,17048,17049,17050,17052,17053,17054	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3000	3000	10	17044,17045,17046,17048,17052,17054,17055,17056,17057,17058	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)			1	17051	4894
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅			2	17050,17054	1516
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂			1	17058	337
Sudburyite ()*	Nickeline	PdSb			1	17058	46
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	3000	3000	9	17046,17047,17048,17050,17052,17054,17055,17056,17057	3337
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	3000	3000	9	17044,17046,17047,17048,17052,17054,17055,17056,17057	2562
Vaesite ()*	Pyrite	NiS₂			1	17053	106
Violarite ()*	Spinel	FeNi₂S₄			6	17044,17048,17049,17050,17052,17053	380

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_641	Ni-Cu sulfides in komatiite
Michelle_648	Ni-Cu sulfides in komatiite

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Michelle_641	3000	3000	3000		Age of deposit or general age of the metallogenic province								Ni, Cu	291206	Ratbat Prospect, Kondinin Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Ratbat	Hoatson et al. (2006)	10.1016/j.oregeorev.2006.05.002	OGR29_177	See Table. 1 Global resources of nickel metal and ages of the major nickel sulfide deposits of the world. Age can refer to the age of a specific nickel sulfide deposit, or the general age of the metallogenic province containing nickel deposits that are similar to a dated deposit (e.g. 2705 Ma Komatiite-hosted deposits in the Eastern Goldfields Province).
	Michelle_648	3000	3000	3000		Age of deposit or general age of the metallogenic province								Ni, Cu	291205	Seagull Prospect, Kondinin Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Seagull	Hoatson et al. (2006)	10.1016/j.oregeorev.2006.05.002	OGR29_177	See Table. 1 Global resources of nickel metal and ages of the major nickel sulfide deposits of the world. Age can refer to the age of a specific nickel sulfide deposit, or the general age of the metallogenic province containing nickel deposits that are similar to a dated deposit (e.g. 2705 Ma Komatiite-hosted deposits in the Eastern Goldfields Province).

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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