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:
Flinders Area, Victoria, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 200
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-200.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Flinders Area, Victoria, Australia": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Bushrangers Bay
Cairns Bay
Cape Schanck
Little Bird Rock
Simmons Bay

Latitude: 38°29'24"S
Longitude: 144°56'47"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -38.49,144.94638888889

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.

Analcime	Aragonite	Atacamite	Baryte	Calcite	Chabazite	Clay	Connellite	Copper	Diaspore
Digenite	Erionite	Gmelinite	Gypsum	Lévyne	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Smectite-vermiculite	Thomsonite

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Birnessite ()*	Calcite ()*
Celestine ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite-Na ()*	Connellite ()*	Copper ()*
Cowlesite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Digenite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Erionite-Na ()*
Gmelinite-Na ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Laumontite ()*	Lévyne-Ca ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Paratacamite ()*	Ranciéite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Na O S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca H O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Atacamite Baryte Calcite Chabazite Clay Connellite Copper Diaspore
Digenite Erionite Gmelinite Gypsum Lévyne Natrolite None Not in a structural group Smectite-vermiculite Thomsonite

25 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	3	14115,14117,14118	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3	14115,14116,14117	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	14115,14117	11547
Birnessite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K)_0.6(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)₂O₄·1.5H₂O	1	14117	178
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	14115,14116,14117	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	14115	1252
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	1	14115	310
Chabazite-Na ()*	Chabazite	(Na₃K)[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·11H₂O	2	14115,14117	66
Connellite ()*	Connellite	Cu₃₆(SO₄)(OH)₆₂Cl₈·6H₂O	1	14115	295
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	14115	3846
Cowlesite ()*	None	Ca(Al₂Si₃)O₁₀·5-6H₂O	1	14115	84
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	14115	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	14115	1027
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	14115,14116,14117	9895
Erionite-Na ()*	Erionite	Na₁₀[Si₂₆Al₁₀O₇₂]·30H₂O	1	14115	13
Gmelinite-Na ()*	Gmelinite	Na₄(Si₈Al₄)O₂₄·11H₂O	3	14115,14117,14118	25
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	14115	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	14115	6890
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	14115	1271
Lévyne-Ca ()*	Lévyne	Ca₃(Si₁₂Al₆)O₃₆·18H₂O	0		42
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	2	14115,14117	1508
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	3	14115,14117,14118	1236
Paratacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃(Cu,Zn)Cl₂(OH)₆	1	14115	158
Ranciéite ()*	None	(Ca,Mn²⁺)_0.2(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂·0.6H₂O	1	14117	177
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	2	14115,14117	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050371	Cairns Bay, Flinders Area, Victoria, Australia	https://rruff.info/R050371

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