Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Pine Point, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 233024
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-233024.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pine Point, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Dead Horse Bay U Occurrence
Harts Mine (Black Point; Goldsworthy; Phillips)
Hillside Mine (Hillside Project)
Ormsby Mine (Phillips)
Pine Point Kaolin Prospect
Pine Point Mine

Latitude: 34°32'35"S
Longitude: 137°52'55"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -34.543055555556,137.88194444444

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.

Allophane	Atacamite	Brannerite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote
Fluorite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Meneghinite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Spinel
Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Titanite

Aikinite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bornite ()*
Brannerite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Clinozoisite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tenorite ()*	Titanite ()*	Uraninite ()*

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 Au Bi C Ca Cl Cu Fe H O Pb S Si Ti U

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Atacamite Brannerite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote
Fluorite Kaolinite Malachite Meneghinite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Spinel
Stibnite Tetrahedrite Titanite

25 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aikinite ()*	Meneghinite	CuPbBiS₃	1	12752	315
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	12752	544
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	3	12751,12752,12753	5509
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	12752	1935
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	12752	5516
Brannerite ()*	Brannerite	UTi₂O₆	1	12750	248
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	12752	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	12751,12752	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	12752	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	12752	3531
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	12752	1025
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	12752	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	12752	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	12752	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	12752	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	12752,12753,12755	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	12753,12754	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	12752	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	12751,12752,12753	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	12752	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	12751,12752,12754	61156
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	12752	1803
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	12752	1101
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	12752	4899
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	12752	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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