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Locality Name:
Oraparinna Homestead (Oraparinna National Park), Bunkers Range, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 22042
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-22042.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Oraparinna Homestead (Oraparinna National Park), Bunkers Range, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Appealinna Extended
Appealinna Homeward Bound
Appealinna Mine
Bowering Deposit
Dunbar Barite Deposit (Dunbar Mine; Linke's Lode; Appealinna Barite; ML 3413; ML 3414)
Mount Emily Mine
Oraparinna Asbestos Mine
Oraparinna Mine (Oraparinna Barytes Mine)
Southern Barite (Coad; Ml 5158; Mount Caernarvon)

Latitude: 31°21'39"S
Longitude: 138°45'46"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -31.360833333333,138.76277777778

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.

Amphibole	Atacamite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Malachite
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Tetrahedrite

Atacamite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bournonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*
Glaucophane ()*	Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*

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 As Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mg Na O Pb S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Atacamite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Diaspore Malachite
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Tetrahedrite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

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	12105	544
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	4	12106,12107,12110,12111	11547
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	1	12108	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	12104,12105,12107,12110	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	12105	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	12104,12105,12107,12108	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	12104,12105	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	3	12103,12104,12105	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	12111	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	12108	24243
Glaucophane ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Mg₃Al₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	12109	286
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	12105,12107	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	12103,12105	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	5	12103,12104,12105,12107,12108	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	12103,12104,12105	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	12103,12104,12107,12108,12110,12111	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	2	12105,12108	6417
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	12104	1803

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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