Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Rapid Bay Limestone Quarry, Rapid Bay, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 17633
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-17633.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Rapid Bay Limestone Quarry, Rapid Bay, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Great Southern
Olivaster
Wheal Coglin (Broken Range)
Yattagolinga

Latitude: 35°31'28"S
Longitude: 138°10'37"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -35.524444444444,138.17694444444

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	Arsenic	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Rocksalt
Sulphur

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: Au Ba Bi C Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: O Pb S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenic Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Malachite None Not in a structural group Rocksalt
Sulphur

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuth ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Malachite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sulphur ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	0		2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	12310	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	12307,12309	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	12308	1966
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	12307,12309,12310	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	3	12308,12309,12310	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	12310	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	12310	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	12307,12308,12309,12310	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	12308	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	12310	12537
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	3	12308,12309,12310	2473
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	0		2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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