Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mertondale Goldfield, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 268442
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-268442.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mertondale Goldfield, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Crown Of Nations Gold Mine (Dunn's Find; Mount Zephyr)
Eclipse Gold Prospect
Gambier Lass Gold Mine
Harriston Gold Mine (Starlight; Pig Well)
Linger And Die Gold Mine
Merton's Reward Gold Mine (Merton's Find; Mertondale 1)
Mertondale 2 Gold Mine
Mertondale 3-4 Gold Mine
Mertondale 5 Gold Mine
Mount Molybdenite Prospect
Nambi Gold Mine (Mount Redcliffe)
Quicksilver Gold Prospect
Randwick (Waite Kauri)
Royal Harry Gold Mine
Tonto Gold Prospect
Wild Cat Gold Mine

Latitude: 28°37'2"S
Longitude: 121°32'28"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -28.617222222222,121.54111111111

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	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Kaolinite	Mica
Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz

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 C Ca Fe H K Mo O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Diaspore Epidote Kaolinite Mica
Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Epidote ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	17360	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	3	17356,17360,17362	9052
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	17369	8173
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	17356	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	14	17356,17357,17358,17359,17360,17361,17362,17363,17365,17366,17367,17368,17369,17370	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	17369	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	17356	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	17358	5591
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	17364	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	5	17357,17360,17363,17365,17369	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	7	17356,17357,17359,17360,17362,17363,17365	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	11	17356,17357,17358,17359,17360,17363,17364,17365,17366,17367,17369	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	17360	6417

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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