Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Blackwood, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 192368
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-192368.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blackwood, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Big Reef (Big Reef Mine)
Butchers Reef (Butchers Mine)
Comet Reef (Comet Reef Mine)
Easter Monday Reef
Homeward Bound Reef
Kathleen Reef Mine (Kathleen Mine)
Morning Star Reef (Morning Star Mine)
Mounters Reef (Mounter Mine)
Murphys Lode (Antimony Lode)
Newhaven Reef (Newhaven Reef Mine)
North Sultan Mine
Pincomb Reef
Rip Van Winkle Reef (Rip Van Winkle Mine)
Staffordshire Reef
Sultan Reef (Sultan Mine)
Yankee Reef

Latitude: 37°28'11"S
Longitude: 144°18'7"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -37.469722222222,144.30194444444

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.

Arsenic	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Stibnite

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 Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Calcite Clay Copper Mica None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Stibnite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Antimony ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Stibnite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	1	14405	363
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	14410	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	15	14397,14398,14399,14400,14401,14402,14403,14404,14405,14406,14407,14408,14410,14411,14412	30554
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	14399	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	14407,14410,14411	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	10	14397,14399,14401,14403,14404,14405,14407,14410,14411,14412	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	3	14401,14407,14411	6417
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	14405	3418

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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