Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 374
Youngest recorded age at locality: 366

mindat Locality ID: 236448
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-236448.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia": 65
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 58

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Berringa
Illabarook
Italian Gully
Linton
Maude
Meredith
Morrisons
Piggoreet
Pitfield
Pittong
Rokewood
Smythesdale
Staffordshire Reef
Steiglitz

Latitude: 37°47'1"S
Longitude: 143°47'12"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -37.783611111111,143.78666666667

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	Amphibole	Arsenic	Bismutite	Bournonite	Chalcanthite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Copper
Covellite	Diaspore	Garnet	Kaolinite	Lepidocrocite	Matlockite	Mica	Molybdenite	Natrolite	None
Pharmacosiderite	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Smectite-vermiculite	Stibnite
Sulphur	Tetrahedrite	Tourmaline

Augite ()*	Bariopharmacosiderite ()*	Bismoclite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Bismutite ()*	Bournonite ()*	Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Claudetite ()*
Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Dravite ()*
Ferberite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hydrokenoelsmoreite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Koechlinite ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Natrojarosite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Omphacite ()*	Pargasite ()*
Pharmacosiderite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pittongite ()*	Plumbogummite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrope ()*	Quartz ()*	Russellite ()*	Rutile ()*	Scheelite ()*
Silver ()*	Sulphur ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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: Ag Al As Au B Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si Ti W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amphibole Arsenic Bismutite Bournonite Chalcanthite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Copper
Covellite Diaspore Garnet Kaolinite Lepidocrocite Matlockite Mica Molybdenite Natrolite None
Pharmacosiderite Pyrite Pyrochlore Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Smectite-vermiculite Stibnite
Sulphur Tetrahedrite Tourmaline

43 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆			1	14142	2060
Bariopharmacosiderite ()*	Pharmacosiderite	Ba_0.5Fe³⁺₄(AsO₄)₃(OH)₄·5H₂O	374	366	1	14164	150
Bismoclite ()*	Matlockite	BiOCl	374	366	1	14164	71
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	374	366	1	14164	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	374	366	1	14164	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	374	366	1	14164	716
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃			1	14183	1089
Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcanthite	Cu(SO₄)·5H₂O	374	366	1	14164	925
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	374	366	2	14164,14183	27198
Claudetite ()*	None	As₂O₃			1	14183	35
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	374	366	1	14164	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	374	366	1	14164	4165
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆			1	14142	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂			2	14134,14183	9895
Dravite ()*	Tourmaline	NaMg₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	374	366	1	14164	648
Ferberite ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺(WO₄)	374	366	1	14164	551
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	374	366	3	14133,14134,14164	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	374	366	1	14164	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	374	366	37	14133,14134,14135,14136,14137,14144,14150,14151,14152,14153,14154,14155,14156,14157,14158,14159,14160,14161,14164,14166,14167,14168,14169,14170,14171,14172,14173,14174,14175,14176,14177,14178,14179,14180,14181,14182,14183	30554
Hydrokenoelsmoreite ()*	Pyrochlore	₂W₂O₆(H₂O)	374	366	2	14164,14183	57
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	374	366	1	14164	5591
Koechlinite ()*	None	Bi₂MoO₆	374	366	1	14164	39
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	374	366	1	14164	581
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	374	366	1	14164	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	374	366	1	14164	17380
Natrojarosite ()*	Alunite	NaFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	374	366	1	14164	254
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O			1	14140	1236
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O			1	14183	471
Omphacite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe,Al)Si₂O₆			1	14142	229
Pargasite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Mg₄Al)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂			1	14142	313
Pharmacosiderite ()*	Pharmacosiderite	KFe³⁺₄(AsO₄)₃(OH)₄·6-7H₂O	374	366	1	14164	428
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂			1	14142	2273
Pittongite ()*	None	(Na,H₂O)_0.7(W,Fe³⁺)(O,OH)₃	374	366	1	14164	1
Plumbogummite ()*	Alunite	PbAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	374	366	1	14164	170
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	374	366	6	14133,14134,14144,14164,14182,14183	39462
Pyrope ()*	Garnet	Mg₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			1	14142	341
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	374	366	6	14133,14134,14136,14144,14164,14183	61156
Russellite ()*	None	Bi₂WO₆	374	366	1	14164	40
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			1	14183	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	374	366	1	14164	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	374	366	1	14164	5186
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	374	366	1	14164	2045
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			1	14196	5317

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Mo-00120	374	366										Koechlinite, Molybdenite	Mo	10725	Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia		Arne et al. (1998)	10.1016/S0169-1368(97)00021-8	OGR13_251

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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