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Locality Name:
Cowell, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 19106
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19106.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cowell, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Bungalow Prospect
Cowell Jade Province Outcrops 1 - 110
Cowell Silver Mine (Atkinsons Find; Cowell Blocks Development Syndicate; Fairbanks Claim; McNamaras Claims; Miltalie Prospecting Syndicate)
Kathleen Patricia Morion Mine (Kathleen Patricia Mine)
Miltalie Asbestos Mine
Miltalie Silver Mine (Miltalie Mine)
Minbrie Prospect
Mount Miller Mine
The Mount Geharty Talc Mine
Yalpoudnie Mine

Latitude: 33°33'57"S
Longitude: 136°49'45"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -33.565833333333,136.82916666667

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	Amphibole	Aragonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Malachite	Marcasite	Nickeline
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Serpentine	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Anthophyllite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Copper ()*
Cummingtonite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Graphite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*
Tremolite ()*

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 C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mg O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amphibole Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Malachite Marcasite Nickeline
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Serpentine Sphalerite Spinel Talc

26 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	11793	2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	11789	3419
Anthophyllite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	11788,11794	718
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	3	11790,11793,11797	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	11792	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	11790,11793	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	11793	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	11790	1382
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	11792	951
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	11790	3846
Cummingtonite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	11788,11794	327
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	11792	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	11790,11793,11796	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	11793,11795,11797	24243
Graphite ()*	None	C	2	11793,11797	2812
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	11788,11794	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	11790,11793,11797	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	11793	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	11793	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	11793	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	11788,11791,11793,11794,11795	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	11793	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2	11790,11793	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	11793	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	11796	3337
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	11792	2562

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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