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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

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: 
AtacamiteCopperNoneNot in a structural groupPyriteQuartz

6 IMA Minerals at location:
Atacamite  (*)Dolomite  (*)Gold  (*)Huntite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Atacamite  (*)AtacamiteCu2Cl(OH)3112408544
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)2312405,12406,124089895
Gold  (*)CopperAu11240830554
Huntite  (*)Not in a structural groupCaMg3(CO3)4212405,1240669
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS211240839462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2612405,12406,12407,12408,12409,1241061156



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