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Locality Name:
Prospero Nickel Prospect, Cosmos Area, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2710
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2700

mindat Locality ID: 268981
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-268981.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Prospero Nickel Prospect, Cosmos Area, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 28°51'58"S
Longitude: 121°24'54"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -28.866111111111,121.415

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.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
EG105_1057_030	Also see: DOI 10.1007/s00710-004-0044-6
Michelle_639	Ni-Cu sulfides in komatiite

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
	EG105_1057_030	2710	2700	2710-2700							Yes			Ni, Cu, Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Os, Ru	205671	Agnew Gold Mine (Waroonga Underground Complex; Waroonga; Waroonga South; 450 South; EMU; Woronga), Agnew Goldfield (Lawlers), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Agnew-Wiluna Belt	Begg et al. (2010)	10.2113/econgeo.105.6.1057	EG105_1057
	Michelle_639	2709	2701	2705±4		Age of deposit or general age of the metallogenic province								Ni, Cu	268981	Prospero Nickel Prospect, Cosmos Area, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Prospero	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). Dates on felsic volcanic rocks that include komatiites are consistent with an inferred eruption age for these komatiites of c. 2705 Ma.

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