Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Daylesford Gold Field, Daylesford, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 192370
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-192370.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Daylesford Gold Field, Daylesford, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 24
Child Localities:
Ajax Mine
Ajax North Mine
Argus
Bonnards
Central Ajax
Cornish
Cornish Extended Mine
Freehold United Mine
Frenchmans North Mine
Italian Hill Lead (Italian Hill Mine)
Mauritius Mine
Maxwell Consolidated Mine
Mitchells
North Cornish
North Cornish No.1 Mine
North Nuggety Ajax
Nuggetty Ajax Mine
Old Argus Mine
Rising Star
Royal Oak Lead
South Argus
South Cornish
Specimen Hill
William Tell Mine

Latitude: 37°20'41"S
Longitude: 144°8'33"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -37.344722222222,144.1425

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	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz

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 As Au Fe H K O S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Clay Copper Corundum Mica None Pyrite Quartz

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Antimony ()*	Arsenic ()*	Corundum ()*	Gold ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	1	14225	363
Arsenic ()*	Arsenic	As	1	14225	379
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	14230	1797
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	23	14221,14222,14223,14224,14225,14226,14227,14228,14229,14230,14231,14232,14233,14234,14236,14237,14238,14239,14240,14241,14242,14243,14244	30554
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	14225,14237	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	14225,14232,14237	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	22	14221,14222,14223,14224,14225,14226,14227,14228,14229,14230,14231,14232,14233,14234,14236,14237,14238,14239,14241,14242,14243,14244	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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