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:
Bendigo, City Of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 454
Youngest recorded age at locality: 432

mindat Locality ID: 198
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-198.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bendigo, City Of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
180 Mine
Carlisle Shaft
Catherine Reef United (Catherine Mine)
Central Deborah Mine
Clarence United
Cornish United Shaft
Garden Gully United
Great Extended Hustlers
Great Northern
Hercules And Energetic
Johnson's Reef
Kochs Pioneer
Lansell's 180
New Carshalton Mine (Carshalton Reef)
New Chum Railway Mine
New Moon Mine (New Moon Quartz Gold Mine)
North Deborah
South New Moon Mine
Specimen Hill Shaft
Virginia Mine (Virginia Shaft)

Latitude: 36°44'20"S
Longitude: 144°15'21"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -36.738888888889,144.25583333333

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.

Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Feldspar	Mica	Nickeline	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: Al As Au C Ca Cu Fe H K Na O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al H K Na O Pb S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Feldspar Mica Nickeline None Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Albite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	454	432	0		8803
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	454	432	2	13815,13828	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	454	437	1	13828	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	454	432	2	13815,13828	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	454	432	1	13828	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	454	432	0		24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	444	432	19	13812,13813,13814,13815,13816,13818,13819,13820,13821,13822,13823,13824,13825,13826,13827,13828,13829,13830,13831	30554
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	454	432	0		17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	444	432	1	13828	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	454	432	1	13828	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	454	432	5	13815,13816,13820,13821,13828	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	454	432	1	13828	21482

7 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Sample Source	Sample Num	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
Emily000002	444	432	438±6	Re-Os					Pyrite		198	Bendigo, City Of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia	Bendigo	Arne et al. (2001)	10.2113/gsecongeo.96.6.1455	EG96_1455
Emily000004	450.3	441.1	445.7±4.6								198	Bendigo, City Of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia	Bendigo	Arne et al. (2001)	10.2113/gsecongeo.96.6.1455	EG96_1455
Emily000005	444	432	438±6						Gold	Au	198	Bendigo, City Of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia	Bendigo	Arne et al. (2001)	10.2113/gsecongeo.96.6.1455	EG96_1455
Emily000006	451	437	444±7	Re-Os		arsenopyrite	B-2	Arsenopyrite	Arsenopyrite		198	Bendigo, City Of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia	Bendigo	Arne et al. (2001)	10.2113/gsecongeo.96.6.1455	EG96_1455
Emily000007	454	440	447±7	Re-Os		arsenopyrite	B-6	Arsenopyrite	Arsenopyrite		198	Bendigo, City Of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia	Bendigo	Arne et al. (2001)	10.2113/gsecongeo.96.6.1455	EG96_1455
Scott-OGR13_299-0002	441	437	439±2	40Ar-39Ar	age of mineralization	sericite	LS94-13			Au	198	Bendigo, City Of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia	Bendigo	Foster et al. (1998)	10.1016/S0169-1368(97)00020-6	OGR13_299
Emily000001	441	437	439±2						Gold	Au	99768	Central Deborah Mine, Bendigo, City Of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia	Central Deborah Mine	Arne et al. (2001)	10.2113/gsecongeo.96.6.1455	EG96_1455

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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