Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Port Clinton, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 256708
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-256708.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Port Clinton, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Areena Mine (West Melton; Champion)
Bakers Gully Phosphate Deposit
Clinton Ironstone Quarry (Unknown Ironstone Quarry)
Clinton Magnesite Mine (Camera Salt Co.)
Clinton Phosphate Mine (Clinton Phosphate Workings; Yararoo)
Kalkabury Mine
Price Salt Mine (Cheetham Salt; Gulf Salt Co. Ltd; Wills Creek)
White Cliffs Prospect

Latitude: 34°11'30"S
Longitude: 137°58'10"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -34.191666666667,137.96944444444

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Corundum	Diaspore	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Talc

Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluellite ()*	Goethite ()*	Halite ()*	Hematite ()*	Kingite ()*
Magnesite ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Talc ()*

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 Cl Cu F Fe H Mg Na O P S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Corundum Diaspore Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Talc

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	12762	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	12762	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	12764	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	12757	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	4	12758,12759,12760,12761	9895
Fluellite ()*	None	Al₂(PO₄)F₂(OH)·7H₂O	1	12761	40
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	12759	7437
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	12763	1398
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	12757,12759	14640
Kingite ()*	None	Al₃(PO₄)₂F₂(OH)·7H₂O	2	12759,12761	12
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	2	12760,12761	1487
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	12757,12762	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	12757,12764	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	12757,12762,12764	61156
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	12762	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060997	Port Clinton, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia	https://rruff.info/R060997

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