Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Unnamed Caves, Paddy's River Cu Mine, Cotter River, Brindabella Range, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 22608
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-22608.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Unnamed Caves, Paddy's River Cu Mine, Cotter River, Brindabella Range, Australian Capital Territory, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 35°20'1"S
Longitude: 148°56'28"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -35.333611111111,148.94111111111

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.

Alunite	Aragonite	Gypsum	Leucophosphite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite

Alunite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Berlinite ()*	Crandallite ()*	Francoanellite ()*
Gypsum ()*	Huntite ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*	Leucophosphite ()*	Nesquehonite ()*
Niter ()*	Nitrocalcite ()*	Zincsilite ()*

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 C Ca Fe H K Mg N O P S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Fe H K Mg N O P S Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Gypsum Leucophosphite None Not in a structural group Quartz Smectite-vermiculite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	966
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Berlinite ()*	Quartz	Al(PO₄)	28
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	310
Francoanellite ()*	None	K₃Al₅(PO₃OH)₆(PO₄)₂·12H₂O	8
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Huntite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaMg₃(CO₃)₄	69
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	341
Leucophosphite ()*	Leucophosphite	KFe³⁺₂(PO₄)₂(OH)·2H₂O	110
Nesquehonite ()*	None	Mg(CO₃)·3H₂O	80
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	181
Nitrocalcite ()*	None	Ca(NO₃)₂·4H₂O	46
Zincsilite ()*	Smectite-vermiculite	Zn₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O (?)	4

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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