Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Richmond Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 223252
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-223252.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Richmond Co., New South Wales, Australia": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Broadwater
Broadwater Beach
Evans Head
Jerusalem Creek
Tatham

Latitude: 29°4'33"S
Longitude: 153°22'21"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -29.075833333333,153.3725

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.

Auricupride	Copper	None	Perovskite	Quartz	Rutile	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: Au Fe Ir O Os Pt Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Auricupride Copper None Perovskite Quartz Rutile Zircon

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Iridium ()*	Isoferroplatinum ()*	Osmium ()*	Platinum ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	9097,9098,9099,9100,9101,9102,9104	30554
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir	1	9100	162
Isoferroplatinum ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Pt₃Fe	1	9100	128
Osmium ()*	None	Os	1	9100	169
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	3	9098,9100,9102	485
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	9097,9101	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	3	9098,9102,9104	5614
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	3	9098,9102,9104	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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