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Locality Name:
Clunes, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 258536
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-258536.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Clunes, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Ballarat & Clunes Mine
Central Clunes Co. Mine
Lothair Extended
Port Phillip Mine
Robinson’s Reef
South Clunes Extended
South Clunes United Mines
Theodore Company Mine

Latitude: 37°17'52"S
Longitude: 143°46'50"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -37.297777777778,143.78055555556

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.

Analcime	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chabazite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Epsomite	Lévyne
Natrolite	None	Pharmacosiderite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Thomsonite

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bariopharmacosiderite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chabazite-Na ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Epsomite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Lévyne-Ca ()*	Mesolite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Natrolite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Siderite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

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 As Au Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Na O Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Cl Cu Fe H Mg O Pb S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Calcite Chabazite Chalcopyrite Copper Epsomite Lévyne
Natrolite None Pharmacosiderite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Thomsonite

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	14214	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	14214	3250
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	0		9052
Bariopharmacosiderite ()*	Pharmacosiderite	Ba_0.5Fe³⁺₄(AsO₄)₃(OH)₄·5H₂O	1	14206	150
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	14209,14214	27770
Chabazite-Na ()*	Chabazite	(Na₃K)[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·11H₂O	2	14209,14214	66
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	0		3846
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	0		484
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	0		24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	14201,14206,14209,14211,14214	30554
Lévyne-Ca ()*	Lévyne	Ca₃(Si₁₂Al₆)O₃₆·18H₂O	2	14209,14214	42
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	1	14209	425
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	0		1107
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	14214	1236
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	14201,14206,14209,14211	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	14206	1711
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	14206	6417
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	2	14209,14214	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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