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Locality Name:
Barossa And Para Wirra Goldfields, Williamstown, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 214490
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-214490.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Barossa And Para Wirra Goldfields, Williamstown, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Barossa Junction
Belle Of Barossa Mine
Humbug Scrub Diggings
Menzies Barossa Mine (Lady Pearce; Royal Phoenix)
Para River
South Para Reservoir
Stockyard Gully Mines (Mount Williamstown)
Wheal Francis

Latitude: 34°40'59"S
Longitude: 138°49'10"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -34.683055555556,138.81944444444

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	Baryte	Bismutite	Brannerite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Covellite
Diaspore	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Serpentine
Spinel	Stibnite	Zircon

Ankerite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bismutite ()*
Bornite ()*	Brannerite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysotile ()*
Clausthalite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Empressite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Sillimanite ()*	Thorite ()*	Wittichenite ()*

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: Ag Al Au Ba Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo O Pb S Se Si Te Th Ti U

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Baryte Bismutite Brannerite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite
Diaspore Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Serpentine
Spinel Stibnite Zircon

28 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	12429	3092
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	12429	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	12436	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	12436	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	1	12436	716
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	3	12429,12431,12436	5516
Brannerite ()*	Brannerite	UTi₂O₆	1	12429	248
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	12436	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	12429,12436	27198
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	12434	951
Clausthalite ()*	Rocksalt	PbSe	1	12429	281
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	4	12429,12430,12431,12436	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	12429	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	12436	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	12427	9895
Empressite ()*	None	AgTe	1	12429	43
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	12429,12433	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	8	12426,12427,12429,12430,12431,12433,12436,12437	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	4	12429,12433,12435,12436	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	12435,12436	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	12432	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	12435	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	12429,12431,12436	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	12426,12427,12429,12433,12436,12437	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	12429	5614
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	12436	1516
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1	12429	1006
Wittichenite ()*	None	Cu₃BiS₃	2	12429,12436	297

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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