Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Burtville Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 269008
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-269008.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Burtville Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Away From Home Gold Mine
Birthday Gift Gold Mine (Specimen Hill; Edith Hope)
Black Swan Gold Mine
Blue Moon Gold Mine
Boomerang Gold Mine
Bush Lawyer Gold Mine
Carib Gold Mine
Cremorne Gold Mine (Happy Find)
Golden Bell Gold Mine
Hammer Hill Gold Mine
Hard Lump Gold Mine
Karridale Gold Mine
Mikado Gold Mine (Hudson Consolidated; Brightstar; Alpha; Beta; General Bridges)
Mount Weld Consols Gold Mine (Cartlidge)
Nil Desperandum Gold Mine (Burtville)
Oldfield Surprise Gold Mine (Oldfield; Surprise)
Riddle Gold Mine (Lone Hand)
Savage Captain Gold Mine
Sons Of Westralia Gold Mine
Tempus Gold Mine

Latitude: 28°46'52"S
Longitude: 122°38'31"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -28.781111111111,122.64194444444

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.

Clay	Copper	Corundum	Kaolinite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Talc

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 Au Fe H Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Copper Corundum Kaolinite None Pyrite Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Talc

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Talc ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	19	17066,17067,17068,17069,17070,17071,17072,17073,17074,17076,17077,17078,17079,17080,17081,17082,17083,17084,17085	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	17078	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	17080	5591
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	17084	471
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	17074	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	10	17066,17072,17073,17074,17077,17078,17080,17083,17084,17085	61156
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	17078	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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