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Locality Name:
Three Springs Shire, Western Australia, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 248210
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-248210.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Three Springs Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Arrino Cu Mine (Cyprus; Cheynes; Money Mia; Lady Bertha; Wheal Dodd)
Baxter Workings
Marchagee
Three Springs
Yandanooka Mineral Sands Prospect

Latitude: 29°34'42"S
Longitude: 115°44'48"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -29.578333333333,115.74666666667
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Na O S Si Ti Zr 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ClayCorundumCovelliteMalachiteNoneNot in a structural groupPyritePyroxeneQuartzRutile
TalcTourmalineZircon

13 IMA Minerals at location:
Augite  (*)Azurite  (*)Chalcocite  (*)Covellite  (*)Dolomite  (*)
Ilmenite  (*)Malachite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Rutile  (*)
Schorl  (*)Talc  (*)Zircon  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Augite  (*)Pyroxene(Ca,Mg,Fe)2Si2O61186362060
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)2218636,186375509
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S218636,186375707
Covellite  (*)CovelliteCuS1186364165
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)2218642,186439895
Ilmenite  (*)CorundumFe2+Ti4+O3218641,186445433
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2218636,1863712537
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS211864339462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2218636,1863761156
Rutile  (*)RutileTiO2218641,186445614
Schorl  (*)TourmalineNaFe2+3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)1186362705
Talc  (*)Clay TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)2318639,18642,186433337
Zircon  (*)ZirconZr(SiO4)318636,18641,186445251


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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