Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Wadgingarra Goldfield, Yalgoo Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 264486
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-264486.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wadgingarra Goldfield, Yalgoo Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Black Johnson Gold Lease
Blaney's Gold Mine
Crescent Gold Mine (Wadgingarra Main Reef; Mount Crescent)
Gnows Nest Mine
Marloo Gold Mine
McDonald And Hampton Gold Mine
Messenger's Patch Gold Area
The Vatican Gold Mine

Latitude: 28°36'13"S
Longitude: 116°53'35"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -28.603611111111,116.89305555556

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	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt

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 Cu Fe H O Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Kaolinite Malachite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	19037	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	19036	3531
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	19036	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	19037	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	8	19034,19035,19036,19037,19038,19039,19040,19041	30554
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	19038	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	19036	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	19037	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	19037	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	19036,19037	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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