Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Anstey Hill Recreation Park, Tea Tree Gully, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 219449
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-219449.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Anstey Hill Recreation Park, Tea Tree Gully, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Highways Department East (Local Government Quarry)
Highways Department West (Local Government Quarry)
Kloppers Quarry (Highercobme District Council Quarry; Coulls Quarry; Anstey Hill Quarry; Hills Quarry)
Tea Tree Gully Mine (Tea Tree Iron Mine; Tea Tree Silver Mine; Ironstone Quarry)
Tea Tree Gully Quarry (PM 92; Quarry Industries)
Tea Tree Gully Sandstone Quarries (Bundey's Quarry; G. Hannaford's Quarry; Roadside Quarry; Saint Peter's Quarry; Tea Tree Gully DC Quarry; Torode's Quarry; Glen Ewin Quarry; Brown And Thompson's)

Latitude: 34°49'46"S
Longitude: 138°44'22"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -34.829444444444,138.73944444444

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.

Atacamite	Copper	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz

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: Au C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mg O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Atacamite Copper None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Atacamite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Gold ()*	Huntite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	12408	544
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	12405,12406,12408	9895
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	12408	30554
Huntite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaMg₃(CO₃)₄	2	12405,12406	69
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	12408	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	12405,12406,12407,12408,12409,12410	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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