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Locality Name:
Alice Downs Station, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1858
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1850

mindat Locality ID: 264732
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-264732.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Alice Downs Station, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Bulman Waterhole Prospect
Dry Creek Gold Mine
Duffers Gold Mine
Grants Creek-Panton River Gold Area
Ilmars Prospect
Little Mount Isa Prospect
McIntosh Graphite Prospects
Panton Sill
Saunders Creek

Latitude: 17°55'35"S
Longitude: 127°54'30"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -17.926388888889,127.90833333333

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	Amphibole	Aragonite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper
Corundum	Covellite	Fluorite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc	Tetrahedrite

Anglesite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Calcite ()*
Carnotite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Enstatite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*
Hydrozincite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*	Talc ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tremolite ()*	Uraninite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cr Cu Fe H K Mg O Pb S Sb Si Ti U V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amphibole Aragonite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper
Corundum Covellite Fluorite Kaolinite Malachite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Talc Tetrahedrite

38 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1850	1850	6	16377,16378,16381,16383,16385,16386	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1850	1850	2	16386,16388	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1850	1850	3	16377,16386,16388	5509
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1850	1850	1	16382	1966
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1850	1850	3	16374,16379,16389	27770
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	1850	1850	1	16393	1184
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1850	1850	8	16377,16378,16381,16382,16383,16385,16386,16388	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1850	1850	1	16388	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1850	1850	9	16377,16378,16381,16383,16385,16386,16387,16388,16389	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1858	1854	1	16392	3902
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1850	1850	1	16389	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1850	1850	2	16374,16388	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1850	1850	1	16388	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1850	1850	2	16388,16389	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1850	1850	1	16388	9895
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1858	1854	1	16392	944
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1850	1850	10	16377,16378,16381,16382,16383,16385,16386,16387,16388,16389	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1850	1850	14	16375,16376,16378,16379,16380,16381,16382,16383,16384,16385,16386,16387,16388,16389	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1850	1850	3	16388,16389,16390	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1850	1850	1	16382	14640
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1850	1850	1	16388	1066
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1858	1850	2	16388,16392	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1850	1850	5	16378,16381,16383,16385,16386	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1858	1850	4	16374,16388,16392,16393	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1850	1850	9	16374,16377,16378,16381,16383,16385,16386,16388,16389	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1850	1850	2	16388,16389	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1850	1850	9	16374,16377,16381,16383,16385,16386,16387,16388,16389	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1850	1850	3	16388,16389,16390	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1850	1850	12	16374,16378,16381,16382,16383,16384,16385,16386,16387,16388,16389,16393	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1850	1850	1	16393	5614
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1850	1850	1	16388	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1850	1850	2	16388,16389	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1858	1854	1	16392	1934
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1850	1850	3	16378,16384,16389	3337
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1850	1850	1	16388	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1850	1850	1	16388	5317
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1858	1850	3	16388,16389,16392	2562
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1850	1850	1	16393	2718

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_636	Stratabound PGEs-Ni-Cu sulfides in mafic-ultramafic intrusion

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Cr-00006	1850	1850					whole rock			Yes		Chromite	Cr	146977	Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia	EST PILBARA BLOCKS AND HALLS CREEK MOBILE ZONE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA	Sun et al. (1991)	10.1016/0301-9268(91)90045-C	PR50_1
	Michelle_636	1858	1854	1856±2		Age of deposit or general age of the metallogenic province								Ni, Cu	250782	Panton Mine, Panton Sill, Alice Downs Station, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Panton	Hoatson et al. (2006)	10.1016/j.oregeorev.2006.05.002	OGR29_177	See Table. 1 Global resources of nickel metal and ages of the major nickel sulfide deposits of the world. Age can refer to the age of a specific nickel sulfide deposit, or the general age of the metallogenic province containing nickel deposits that are similar to a dated deposit (e.g. 2705 Ma Komatiite-hosted deposits in the Eastern Goldfields Province).

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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