Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Dandaragan Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 217012
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217012.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dandaragan Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Badgingarra
Cataby
Cervantes
Dandaragan
Jurien Bay

Latitude: 30°28'49"S
Longitude: 115°22'46"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.480277777778,115.37944444444

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.

Amorphous	Aragonite	Corundum	Dufrénite	Gypsum	None	Quartz	Rutile	Taranakite	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 C Ca F Fe H K Mg O P S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Aragonite Corundum Dufrénite Gypsum None Quartz Rutile Taranakite Zircon

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Ardealite ()*	Brushite ()*	Dufrénite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Minyulite ()*	Newberyite ()*	Opal ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Taranakite ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	15510	3250
Ardealite ()*	Gypsum	Ca₂(PO₃OH)(SO₄)·4H₂O	1	15516	30
Brushite ()*	Gypsum	Ca(PO₃OH)·2H₂O	1	15516	104
Dufrénite ()*	Dufrénite	Ca_0.5Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₅(PO₄)₄(OH)₆·2H₂O	2	15512,15513	139
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	15516	6890
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2	15507,15508	5433
Minyulite ()*	None	KAl₂(PO₄)₂F·4H₂O	2	15512,15513	31
Newberyite ()*	None	Mg(PO₃OH)·3H₂O	1	15516	24
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	15510	2994
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	15508,15513,15516	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2	15507,15508	5614
Taranakite ()*	Taranakite	K₃Al₅(PO₃OH)₆(PO₄)₂·18H₂O	1	15516	57
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	15507,15508	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R070151	Minyulo Well, Dandaragan, Dandaragan Shire, Western Australia, Australia	https://rruff.info/R070151
R060233	Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay, Dandaragan Shire, Western Australia, Australia	https://rruff.info/R060233

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