Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Arrow River (Arrow Valley), Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago Region, New Zealand

mindat Locality ID: 191063
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-191063.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Arrow River (Arrow Valley), Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago Region, New Zealand": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Manganese Occurrences

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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	Calcite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	None	Quartz	Rhodonite

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 Au C Ca Fe H Mg Mn Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Au

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Calcite Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Feldspar Garnet None Quartz Rhodonite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Epidote ()*	Gold ()*	Piemontite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Spessartine ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# 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	87869	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	87869	8803
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	87869	8173
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	0		30554
Piemontite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂(Al₂Mn³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	87869	260
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	87869	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	87869	1711
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	87869	969
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	87869	1214

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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