Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Ridgley, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 244008
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-244008.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ridgley, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
BIS Quarry
West Ridgley Quarry

Latitude: 41°8'50"S
Longitude: 145°49'34"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -41.147222222222,145.82611111111

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.

Apophyllite	Aragonite	Calcite	Natrolite	None

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 F H K Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apophyllite Aragonite Calcite Natrolite None

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) ()*	Natrolite ()*	Okenite ()*
Tacharanite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	12822	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	12822	27770
Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀(OH,F)·8H₂O	1	12822	85
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	2	12821,12822	1236
Okenite ()*	None	Ca₁₀Si₁₈O₄₆·18H₂O	1	12822	71
Tacharanite ()*	None	Ca₁₂Al₂Si₁₈O₃₃(OH)₃₆	1	12822	47

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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