Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Salgash Gold Mines (Warrawoona), Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 3293
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2800

mindat Locality ID: 247455
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-247455.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Salgash Gold Mines (Warrawoona), Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 43
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 43

Number of Child Localities: 43
Child Localities:
Admiral Dewey Gold Mine
Bow Bells Block Gold Mine
Bow Bells Gold Mine (Moondine)
Bow Bells No. 1 West Gold Mine
Bow Bells No.1 North Gold Mine
Bow Bells West Gold Mine
Britannia Gold Mine
Brought To Light Gold Mine
Chance Gold Mine
Criterion Gold Mine
Cuban Gold Mine
Cutty Sark Gold Mine
Daylight Gold Mine
Dead Camel Gold Mine
Dodger Gold Mine
Gauntlet East
Gauntlet Gold Mine
Gift Gold Mine (Gaunlet No. 3 Nor-West)
Golden Gate Gold Mine
Golden Gauntlet Gold Mine
Great Western Gold Mine
Imperialist Gold Mine
Juneau Gold Mine
Klondike Boulder Gold Mine (Klondyke Boulder)
Klondyke Block Gold Mine
Klondyke Gold Mine (Klondyke Queen)
Klondyke King Gold Mine
Klondyke No. 1 East Mine
Klondyke No. 1 West Gold Mine (Klondyke No. 1)
Klondyke No. 2 East Mine
Last Chance
Lone Hand Gold Mine
Maybe Gold Mine
Nelson
Princept Gold Mine
Princess Of Alaska Gold Mine
Rangatira Gold Mine
Reward Claim
Saint George No. 1 East Gold Mine
Seven Dials Gold Mine
Tom Thumb Gold Mine (Trangmar; Carnoustie)
Treble Event Gold Mine
Wheel Of Fortune Gold Mine (Dawson City)

Latitude: 21°19'29"S
Longitude: 119°52'21"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -21.324722222222,119.8725

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	Amphibole	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar
Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cuprite ()*	Epidote ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Talc ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 Au C Ca Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amphibole Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Feldspar
Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Talc

22 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
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	3293	2800	1	15902	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	3293	2800	1	15916	8803
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	3293	2800	2	15902,15916	3092
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	3293	2800	1	15911	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3293	2800	1	15921	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3293	2800	3	15902,15903,15931	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	3293	2800	1	15903	3902
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	3293	2800	1	15911	3531
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	3293	2800	3	15911,15934,15942	2970
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3293	2800	1	15902	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3293	2800	3	15911,15913,15937	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3293	2800	37	15900,15901,15902,15903,15904,15906,15907,15908,15909,15910,15911,15912,15913,15914,15916,15917,15918,15919,15920,15921,15922,15923,15924,15925,15926,15928,15931,15932,15934,15935,15936,15937,15938,15939,15940,15941,15942	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3293	2800	1	15917	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	3293	2800	1	15902	5433
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3293	2800	6	15908,15911,15931,15934,15937,15942	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2860	2800	4	15902,15903,15931,15942	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3293	2800	8	15902,15903,15908,15911,15913,15916,15931,15937	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3293	2800	26	15901,15902,15903,15904,15908,15909,15911,15912,15913,15914,15916,15917,15918,15919,15920,15921,15922,15923,15926,15928,15931,15932,15937,15939,15940,15942	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	3293	2800	2	15931,15934	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3293	2800	0		21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	3293	2800	2	15918,15921	3337
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3293	2800	1	15902	1025

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
EG97_873-00018	pegmatite
EG97_873-00019	pegmatite
EG97_873-00020	pegmatite
EG97_873-00021	pegmatite

4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
EG97_873-00018	2860	2800	2830±30	Rb-Sr	muscovite	Yes	Muscovite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00019	2855	2823	2839±16	Pb-Pb	cassiterite	Yes	Cassiterite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00020	2921	2815	2868±53	Pb-Pb	cassiterite	Yes	Cassiterite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00021	3293	2843	3068±225	Pb-Pb	apatite	Yes		248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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