Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1371
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0.01

mindat Locality ID: 208662
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-208662.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 23
Child Localities:
2 A Mine
Big Oxide Mine
Bluff Mine
Chidna Mine
Esperanza Z5 Mine (Esperanza Deposit)
Ivena Mine
Ivena North Mine
Josephine Mine
Mammoth Extended Mine
Mammoth Mine
Manitoba Mine (Manitoba Prospect)
Margaret Mine
Mount Fitch Mine
Mount Gordon Mine
Mount Oxide Copper Mine
Myally Mine
New Zealand Mine (New Zealand Prospect)
North Portal Mine
Pluto Mine
Silver Point Mine
South Mammoth I Mine
South Mammoth II Mine
Valparaisa Mine

Latitude: 19°33'55"S
Longitude: 139°23'23"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -19.565277777778,139.38972222222

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.

Adelite	Alunite	Amorphous	Andalusite	Arsenopyrite	Atacamite	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcoalumite	Chalcopyrite
Clay	Cobaltite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Cyanotrichite	Diaspore	Digenite	Dufrénite	Enargite
Feldspar	Kaolinite	Leucophosphite	Malachite	Marcasite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Turquoise	Wavellite	Wurtzite	Zircon

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 C Ca Cl Co Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na Ni O P Pb S Si Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Adelite Alunite Amorphous Andalusite Arsenopyrite Atacamite Brochantite Calcite Chalcoalumite Chalcopyrite
Clay Cobaltite Copper Corundum Covellite Cyanotrichite Diaspore Digenite Dufrénite Enargite
Feldspar Kaolinite Leucophosphite Malachite Marcasite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Turquoise Wavellite Wurtzite Zircon

53 IMA Minerals at location:

Alunite ()*	Anilite ()*	Antlerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Asbolane ()*
Atacamite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcoalumite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcosiderite ()*	Cobaltite ()*
Conichalcite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cyanotrichite ()*	Digenite ()*
Djurleite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Enargite ()*	Galena ()*	Geerite ()*
Gibbsite ()*	Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Leucophosphite ()*	Libethenite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Natrodufrénite ()*	Nissonite ()*	Olivenite ()*	Opal ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Pseudomalachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Siegenite ()*
Sieleckiite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spionkopite ()*	Turquoise ()*	Variscite ()*
Wavellite ()*	Yarrowite ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	11533	966
Anilite ()*	Digenite	Cu₇S₄	1	11523	88
Antlerite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu²⁺₃(SO₄)(OH)₄	1	11533	246
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	11523	9052
Asbolane ()*	Not in a structural group	Mn⁴⁺(O,OH)₂·(Co,Ni,Mg,Ca)_x(OH)_2x·nH₂O	1	11533	143
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	11533	544
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	11528,11533	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	11523,11528	5516
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	11533	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	11521	27770
Chalcoalumite ()*	Chalcoalumite	CuAl₄(SO₄)(OH)₁₂·3H₂O	1	11533	91
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	3	11523,11528,11533	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	11521,11523,11528,11533	27198
Chalcosiderite ()*	Turquoise	CuFe³⁺₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	11533	77
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	1	11523	966
Conichalcite ()*	Adelite	CaCu(AsO₄)(OH)	1	11533	363
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	11523	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	11523,11528	4165
Cyanotrichite ()*	Cyanotrichite	Cu₄Al₂(SO₄)(OH)₁₂(H₂O)₂	1	11533	179
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	2	11523,11528	1027
Djurleite ()*	None	Cu₃₁S₁₆	1	11523	300
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	11523,11533	9895
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	11523	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	11523	24243
Geerite ()*	None	Cu₈S₅	1	11523	38
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	1	11523	504
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	11523	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	11523,11533	14640
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	11533	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	11523	5591
Leucophosphite ()*	Leucophosphite	KFe³⁺₂(PO₄)₂(OH)·2H₂O	1	11533	110
Libethenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(PO₄)(OH)	1	11533	234
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	11533	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	11523	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	11523	5800
Natrodufrénite ()*	Dufrénite	NaFe²⁺Fe³⁺₅(PO₄)₄(OH)₆·2H₂O	1	11533	46
Nissonite ()*	None	Cu₂Mg₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂·5H₂O	1	11533	4
Olivenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(AsO₄)(OH)	1	11533	492
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	11523	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	11523	2349
Pseudomalachite ()*	None	Cu₅(PO₄)₂(OH)₄	1	11533	369
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	11521,11523,11528,11533	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	11523,11528,11533	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	11523	5614
Siegenite ()*	Spinel	CoNi₂S₄	1	11523	249
Sieleckiite ()*	None	Cu₃Al₄(PO₄)₂(OH)₁₂·2H₂O	1	11533	3
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	11523	21482
Spionkopite ()*	None	Cu₃₉S₂₈	1	11523	73
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	11533	484
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	11533	301
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	1	11533	374
Yarrowite ()*	None	Cu₉S₈	1	11523	70
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	11523	5251

2 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
	ree-00063	5.3	0.01	Pliocene-Pleistocene											208662	Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia	Gordon	Orris and Grauch (2002)		USGSOFR02_189
	Bradley_2012_128	1371	1361	1366±5	Ar/Ar			white mica							208684	Myally Mine, Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia	[Myally Subgroup]	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	10.3749/canmin.52.2.183	CM52_183

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R080035	Mount Oxide Copper Mine, Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia	https://rruff.info/R080035

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