Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 225847
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-225847.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Belgrave
Blue Mount
Emerald
Hoddles Creek
Lilydale
Marysville
Powelltown
Starlings Gap
Steels Creek
Yarra Glen

Latitude: 37°45'53"S
Longitude: 145°35'8"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -37.764722222222,145.58555555556

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.

Amorphous	Apatite	Aragonite	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Descloizite	Feldspar	Malachite	Mica
None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Spinel	Stibnite	Stilbite	Tourmaline

Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Descloizite ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Opal ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Phosphohedyphane ()*	Quartz ()*	Rosasite ()*
Schorl ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Spinel ()*	Stellerite ()*	Stibnite ()*

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 Au B C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O P Pb S Sb Si Sn V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Calcite Clay Copper Descloizite Feldspar Malachite Mica
None Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Spinel Stibnite Stilbite Tourmaline

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	14716	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	14716,14718,14722	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	14722	5171
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	14716	4979
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	1	14716	378
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2	14720,14722	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	14716	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	14714,14722	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	14716	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	14723	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	14716	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	14723	2349
Phosphohedyphane ()*	Apatite	Ca₂Pb₃(PO₄)₃Cl	1	14716	71
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	14714,14716,14720,14722,14723,14725,14726	61156
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	14716	454
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	14720	2705
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	14716	2473
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	14711	1934
Stellerite ()*	Stilbite	Ca₄(Si₂₈Al₈)O₇₂·28H₂O	1	14712	189
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	2	14725,14726	3418

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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