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Locality Name:
Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 4000
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1600

mindat Locality ID: 17485
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-17485.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 119
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 114

Number of Child Localities: 40
Child Localities:
Augusta Gold Mine
Big Stubby
Brockman Dyke
Comet Gold Mine
Coongan Siding (Dooleena Gap; Eginbah)
Coongan Star Gold Mine (Grecian Bend)
Copenhagen Gold Mine
Corunna Downs Station
Devan's Reward Gold Mine
Devon Gold Mine
Excelsior Gold Mine
Fielding Gold Prospect (McCarthy's Reward)
Four Mile Gold Diggings
Franklin Gold Mine
Homeward Bound Gold Mine (Homeward Bound Block; Outward Bound)
Iron Duke Gold Mine
Ironclad Gold Mine
Jo-Jo Gold Mine
Just In Time Gold Mine (Just In Time Extended; Lady Dorothy; Great Cement Lode)
Keep It Dark Gold Mine (General; Railway Signal)
Marble Bar South Copper-gold Mine
Marsh's Asbestos Claims
Moolyella Pegmatite Field
Mount Edgar Station
Murphy Well
New Chum Railway Gold Mine
Pear Creek 'jade' Prospect
Portree Gold Mine
Pryce's Find Gold Mine
Rejected Gold Mine (No. 1 Rejected)
Salgash Copper Prospect
Salgash Gold Mines (Warrawoona)
Shamrock Gold Mine
South Ironclad Gold Mine
Stray Shot Gold Mine
Talga Talga Goldfield
Tassy Queen Gold Mine
True Blue Gold Mine
Viking Gold Mine
White Angel Gold Mine (Nelson)

Latitude: 21°11'52"S
Longitude: 119°46'50"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -21.197777777778,119.78055555556

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	Allophane	Alunite	Amphibole	Andalusite	Aragonite	Baryte	Bismutite	Brochantite	Calcite
Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Diamond	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar
Fluorite	Garnet	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Linarite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stannite	Sulphur	Talc
Tetrahedrite	Tourmaline

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 Au B Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cr Cu F Fe H Hg K Mg Mn Mo Na Nb O Pb S Sb Si Sn Ta Ti W Y Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: O Ta Y

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Alunite Amphibole Andalusite Aragonite Baryte Bismutite Brochantite Calcite
Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Copper Corundum Diamond Diaspore Epidote Feldspar
Fluorite Garnet Gypsum Kaolinite Linarite Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Stannite Sulphur Talc
Tetrahedrite Tourmaline

56 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Andalusite ()*	Anglesite ()*
Ankerite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismutite ()*	Brochantite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chlorargyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Columbite-(Mn) ()*
Cuprite ()*	Diamond ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*
Formanite-(Y) ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Linarite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Osarizawaite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Schorl ()*	Siderite ()*	Spessartine ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*
Stannite ()*	Sulphur ()*	Talc ()*	Tantalite-(Mn) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Zoisite ()*

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
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	3293	2800	1	15843	2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	3293	2800	1	15902	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	4000	2500	4	15862,15868,15870,15916	8803
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	4000	2500	1	15872	1310
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	4000	2500	2	15872,15873	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	3293	2800	2	15902,15916	3092
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	4000	2500	3	15866,15879,15911	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	4000	2500	3	15843,15872,15873	11547
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	3293	2800	1	15855	716
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	4000	2500	1	15873	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4000	2500	6	15843,15862,15872,15921,15954,15956	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	2921	2815	1	15868	5171
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4000	2500	2	15872,15873	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	3293	2800	1	15898	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4000	2500	13	15842,15843,15859,15860,15871,15872,15876,15892,15899,15902,15903,15931,15956	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	4000	2500	1	15872	1382
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	3293	2800	2	15894,15903	3902
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	4000	2500	4	15866,15870,15872,15911	3531
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	3293	2800	1	15864	2600
Columbite-(Mn) ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺Nb₂O₆	3293	2800	1	15868	289
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	4000	2500	5	15871,15872,15911,15934,15942	2970
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	2500	1600	1	15844	697
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3293	2800	1	15954	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3293	2800	1	15902	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	3293	2800	1	15868	9617
Formanite-(Y) ()*	None	YTaO₄	4000	1600	0		13
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4000	2500	13	15842,15843,15846,15871,15872,15876,15879,15882,15899,15911,15913,15937,15956	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	4000	2500	2	15866,15873	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4000	2500	90	15842,15845,15847,15848,15850,15852,15853,15854,15855,15856,15857,15859,15860,15861,15862,15863,15864,15865,15875,15876,15877,15878,15879,15880,15881,15882,15883,15885,15886,15888,15889,15890,15891,15893,15895,15896,15897,15899,15900,15901,15902,15903,15904,15906,15907,15908,15909,15910,15911,15912,15913,15914,15916,15917,15918,15919,15920,15921,15922,15923,15924,15925,15926,15928,15931,15932,15934,15935,15936,15937,15938,15939,15940,15941,15942,15943,15944,15945,15947,15948,15949,15950,15953,15954,15955,15956,15957,15958,15959,15960	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	3293	2800	1	15843	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	4000	2500	4	15845,15873,15917,15953	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	4000	2500	1	15872	1689
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	3293	2800	1	15902	5433
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	4000	2500	1	15873	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	3293	2800	2	15845,15868	5591
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	4000	2500	1	15873	987
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	4000	2500	2	15868,15869	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4000	2500	17	15842,15847,15866,15870,15871,15872,15876,15879,15893,15898,15908,15911,15931,15934,15937,15942,15958	12537
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	3293	2800	1	15868	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	4000	2500	1	15887	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	4000	2500	14	15843,15845,15862,15866,15868,15871,15872,15887,15894,15899,15902,15903,15931,15942	17380
Osarizawaite ()*	Alunite	Pb(Al₂Cu²⁺)(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	4000	2500	1	15873	64
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4000	2500	25	15843,15845,15847,15866,15870,15871,15872,15876,15879,15887,15890,15892,15893,15899,15902,15903,15908,15911,15913,15916,15931,15937,15950,15953,15958	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4000	2500	56	15842,15843,15845,15855,15862,15866,15868,15869,15870,15871,15872,15873,15876,15878,15879,15881,15882,15883,15887,15890,15892,15893,15894,15898,15899,15901,15902,15903,15904,15908,15909,15911,15912,15913,15914,15916,15917,15918,15919,15920,15921,15922,15923,15926,15928,15931,15932,15937,15939,15940,15942,15945,15948,15950,15953,15956	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	3293	2800	1	15945	4894
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	4000	2500	1	15872	2705
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	3293	2800	3	15931,15934,15956	6417
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	3293	2800	1	15868	1214
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4000	2500	6	15843,15871,15872,15882,15890,15899	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	2500	1600	1	15844	1934
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄	3293	2800	1	15868	668
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	4000	2500	1	15876	2045
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	3293	2800	4	15845,15899,15918,15921	3337
Tantalite-(Mn) ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺Ta₂O₆	3293	2800	1	15868	211
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	3293	2800	1	15843	5317
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3293	2800	1	15902	1025

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
EG97_873-00018	pegmatite
EG97_873-00019	pegmatite
EG97_873-00020	pegmatite
EG97_873-00021	pegmatite

6 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
ree-00023	2500	1600	Lower Proterozoic				251002	Brockman Dyke, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Brockman	Orris and Grauch (2002)		USGSOFR02_189
EG97_873-00018	2860	2800	2830±30	Rb-Sr	muscovite	Muscovite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00019	2855	2823	2839±16	Pb-Pb	cassiterite	Cassiterite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00020	2921	2815	2868±53	Pb-Pb	cassiterite	Cassiterite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00021	3293	2843	3068±225	Pb-Pb	apatite		248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
vms-00048	4000	2500	Archean				122924	Copper Gorge Prospect, Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Copper George	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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