Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cairn Mining Centre, Yinnietharra (Yinnietharra Station; Yinnetharra), Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 966
Youngest recorded age at locality: 942

mindat Locality ID: 243170
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-243170.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cairn Mining Centre, Yinnietharra (Yinnietharra Station; Yinnetharra), Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Bismuth Hill (The Cairn)
Nardoo Hill (Beryl Hill)

Latitude: 24°30'46"S
Longitude: 116°4'9"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -24.512777777778,116.06916666667

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.

Arsenic	Beryl	Bismutite	Clay	Columbite	Corundum	Feldspar	Garnet	Mica	None
Quartz	Rutile	Stibnite	Tourmaline	Zircon

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Beryl ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Bismutite ()*	Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Eulytine ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Microcline ()*
Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Schorl ()*	Tantalite-(Fe) ()*
Thorite ()*	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: Al B Be Bi C Fe H K Na Nb O S Si Ta Th Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al B Fe H Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Beryl Bismutite Clay Columbite Corundum Feldspar Garnet Mica None
Quartz Rutile Stibnite Tourmaline Zircon

17 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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	966	942	2	18725,18726	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	966	942	1	18726	2353
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	966	942	2	18725,18726	4286
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	966	942	1	18726	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	966	942	1	18725	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	966	942	1	18725	716
Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺Nb₂O₆	966	942	2	18725,18726	518
Eulytine ()*	None	Bi₄(SiO₄)₃	966	942	1	18725	72
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	966	942	1	18725	5433
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	966	942	2	18725,18726	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	966	942	2	18725,18726	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	966	942	2	18725,18726	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	966	942	1	18725	5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	966	942	0		2705
Tantalite-(Fe) ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺Ta₂O₆	966	942	1	18726	99
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	966	942	1	18726	1006
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	966	942	2	18725,18726	5251

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
	Bradley_2012_097	966	942	954±12	U/Pb			monazite							243176	Nardoo Hill (Beryl Hill), Cairn Mining Centre, Yinnietharra (Yinnietharra Station; Yinnetharra), Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia	[Gascoyne Complex]	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	10.3749/canmin.52.2.183	CM52_183

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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