Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cook Shire, Queensland, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 218189
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-218189.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cook Shire, Queensland, Australia": 46
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 37

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Cape York Peninsula
Coen (Moomba) Goldfield
Cooktown
Dianne Mine
Ebagoola
Escape River District
Maytown
Palmer River Alluvial Goldfield
West Normanby Goldfield
Yarraden

Latitude: 14°39'15"S
Longitude: 143°46'44"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -14.654166666667,143.77888888889

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	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore	Kaolinite	Lepidocrocite	Mica
Nolanite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite
Tetrahedrite	Zircon

Akdalaite ()*	Anatase ()*	Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bayerite ()*
Böhmite ()*	Boulangerite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Covellite ()*	Djurleite ()*	Eucairite ()*	Galena ()*	Gibbsite ()*
Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Klockmannite ()*	Lithiophorite ()*	Maghemite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Naumannite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Tiemannite ()*	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: Ag Al As Au C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K Li Mn O Pb S Sb Se Si Sn Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore Kaolinite Lepidocrocite Mica
Nolanite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite
Tetrahedrite Zircon

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Akdalaite ()*	Nolanite	Al₁₀O₁₄(OH)₂	1	11276	6
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	11276	2162
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	11306	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	6	11291,11292,11298,11300,11303,11311	9052
Bayerite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	1	11276	15
Böhmite ()*	Lepidocrocite	AlO(OH)	4	11276,11277,11279,11295	195
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	1	11306	843
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	11306	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	11283	5171
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	11311	5707
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	11311	4165
Djurleite ()*	None	Cu₃₁S₁₆	1	11284	300
Eucairite ()*	None	CuAgSe	1	11284	54
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	11292,11311	24243
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	5	11276,11277,11278,11279,11295	504
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	3	11276,11284,11295	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	16	11286,11287,11288,11289,11290,11291,11292,11294,11298,11300,11303,11305,11308,11311,11314,11319	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	2	11308,11311	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	4	11276,11278,11279,11295	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	5	11276,11277,11278,11279,11295	5591
Klockmannite ()*	Covellite	Cu_5.2Se₆	1	11284	63
Lithiophorite ()*	None	(Al,Li)(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂(OH)₂	1	11278	210
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	11276,11279	229
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	11276	17380
Naumannite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ag₂Se	1	11284	192
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	7	11284,11291,11292,11298,11300,11303,11306	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	11276,11277,11279,11284,11291,11295,11308,11311	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	11311	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	3	11292,11300,11311	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	11306	5317
Tiemannite ()*	Sphalerite	HgSe	1	11284	83
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	11276	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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