Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Gibraltar Range National Park, Drake Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 223191
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-223191.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gibraltar Range National Park, Drake Co., New South Wales, Australia": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Bismuth Shaft (Pheasant Creek Tin Field)
Dundarra Creek Alluvials
Dundarra East Prospect (Pheasant Creek Tin Field)
Dundarra West Prospect
Fowlers Tin
Keyes Deposit
Louats Deposit
Old Man Hat Prospect

Latitude: 29°28'39"S
Longitude: 152°18'19"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -29.4775,152.30527777778

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.

Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Quartz	Rutile	Sphalerite
Topaz

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 Bi Cu F Fe H K Mo O S Si Sn Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Mica Molybdenite None Quartz Rutile Sphalerite
Topaz

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Topaz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	4	6613,6615,6616,6619	9052
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	6613	1966
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	7	6613,6614,6615,6616,6617,6618,6619	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	6619	27198
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	6613	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	6615,6616,6619	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	6613,6615,6616,6619,6620	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	6619	21482
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	6620	1476

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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