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Locality Name:
Drake District, Clive Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 265243
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-265243.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Drake District, Clive Co., New South Wales, Australia": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Golden Drake Mine (Penthams Reef)
Goughs Gully Reef (Kelly Brothers Prospect; Kellys Lode)
Hynes & Party Lode (West Mandrake Prospect)
Lady Jersey Mine
Long Creek Alluvials
MacLeods Creek (McLeods Creek)
McIntyre & Co Lode (Mandrake; Mandrake Prospect; Clarke Field)
Mount Richmond Lode
Nicholson & Party Reef (Kellys South Prospect)
Weirs Prospect

Latitude: 28°59'19"S
Longitude: 152°21'3"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -28.988611111111,152.35083333333

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.

Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Cubanite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica
Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*
Cubanite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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: Ag Al As Au C Ca Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Cubanite Kaolinite Malachite Mica
Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	4	5505,5506,5508,5513	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	5513	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	5511	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	5505,5507,5508,5511	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	5511	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	2	5505,5508	802
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	5506,5507,5511	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	10	5505,5506,5507,5508,5509,5510,5511,5512,5513,5514	30554
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	5508	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	5508	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	5508,5511,5513	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	7	5505,5506,5507,5508,5511,5512,5513	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2	5505,5508	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	5505,5506,5507,5508,5511,5512,5513,5514	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2	5507,5511	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	5505,5506,5507,5508,5511	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	2	5505,5508	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	3	5505,5508,5511	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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