Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Ballarat, City Of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 457
Youngest recorded age at locality: 453

mindat Locality ID: 196
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-196.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ballarat, City Of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia": 77
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 71

Number of Child Localities: 62
Child Localities:
All Nations Mine
Allied Armies Co. Mine (Emerald)
Arrah Na Pogue Mine
Ballarat Prospecting Mine
Baths Mine
Benns Freehold Mine
Big Engine Mine
British Mine
Buccaneer Mine
Burra Burra Mine (New Burra Burra)
Catch Me Who Can Mine (Wheal Fortune)
City Of Ballarat Mine (Ballarat City Prospecting)
City Of London Mine
Clare Mine
Clarendon Mine
Cosmopolitan Mine
Dana Mine
East Kohinoor Mine
Enterprise Mine
George Mine
Go Ahead Mine
Golden Reefs Mine
Grand Junction Mine
Gravel Pits Mine (Old Gravel Pits)
Great Britain Mine
Great Eastern Mine (North Kohinoor; North Koh-I-Noor)
Great Go Ahead Mine
Great Republic Mine (Great Republic United)
Great Western Mine
Gum Tree Mine
Haphazard Freehold Mine
Hawthorn Mine
Homeward Bound Mine
Independent Mine
Jones Mine
Kangaroo Mine
Koh-I-Noor Mine (Kohinoor)
Kohinoor Extended Mine
Little Engine Mine
McKeys Mine
Milkmaids Mine
Montezuma Mine
New Constitution Mine
New Don Mine
Nil Desperandum Mine
North Grenville Mine
Office Mine
Ophir Mine (Field Of Bannockburn)
Privateer Mine
Rough And Ready Mine
Sons Of Freedom Mine
Telegraph Mine
Unicorn Mine (Young Unicorn; Green Harp)
Union Mine
United Extension Mine
Washington Mine
Waterloo Mine
Watermans Mine
West End Mine
West Malakoff Mine
Wild Duck Mine
Young Gravel Pits Mine

Latitude: 37°33'50"S
Longitude: 143°51'1"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -37.563888888889,143.85027777778

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.

Copper	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

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 C Ca Fe O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Fe Mg O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Ankerite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	457	453	0		3092
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	457	453	1	13583	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	457	453	19	13579,13583,13585,13589,13593,13596,13597,13607,13611,13613,13619,13625,13631,13636,13645,13646,13648,13649,13652	30554
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	457	453	3	13583,13585,13648	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	457	453	3	13583,13585,13648	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	457	453	1	13583	21482

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Scott-OGR13_299-0004	457	453	455±2	40Ar-39Ar	age of mineralization		sericite	BH-BE-1		Yes			Au	274525	City Of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	Ballarat East	Foster et al. (1998)	10.1016/S0169-1368(97)00020-6	OGR13_299

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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