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Locality Name:
Collie Shire, Western Australia, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 264675
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-264675.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Collie Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 31
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 31

Number of Child Localities: 31
Child Localities:
Black Diamond Coal Mine (Black Diamond A; Black Diamond B)
Bullfinch Coal Mine (Proprietary)
Cardiff Coal Mine
Centaur Coal Mine
Chicken Creek Coal Mine (Chicken Creek No. 4; Chicken Creek No. 5)
Co-Operative Coal Mine
Collie Burn Coal Mine (Scottish; Collie Scottish; Collie Boulder)
Ewington Coal Mine
Ewington No. 1 Coal Mine (Blue Waters)
Ewington No. 2 Coal Mine (Baby Blue)
Griffin Coal Mine (Wyvern)
Moira Coal Mine
Phoenix Coal Mine
Premier Coal Mine (Muja)
Stockton Coal Mine
Wallsend Coal Mine
Western No. 1 Coal Mine
Western No. 2 Coal Mine
Western No. 3 Coal Mine
Western No. 4 Coal Mine
Western No. 5 Coal Mine
Western No. 6 Coal Mine
Western No. 7 Coal Mine
Westralia Coal Mine
WO3 Coal Mine
WO5-N9 Coal Mine
WO5B Coal Mine (Lake Kepwari)
WO5C Coal Mine
WO5D Coal Mine
WO5F Coal Mine
WO5H Coal Mine

Latitude: 33°24'12"S
Longitude: 116°13'14"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -33.403333333333,116.22055555556

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 H O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ClayKaoliniteNoneQuartz

2 IMA Minerals at location:
Kaolinite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)41150465591
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO211504661156



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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