Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Kookynie Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 269306
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-269306.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kookynie Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 31
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 28

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Kookynie
Niagara
Tampa

Latitude: 29°18'33"S
Longitude: 121°26'14"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -29.309166666667,121.43722222222

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.

Arsenic	Bismutite	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Kaolinite
Marcasite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Sulphur	Tetradymite

Ankerite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bismutite ()*	Calcite ()*
Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Microcline ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*	Tetradymite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Fe H K O Pb S Si Te Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Bismutite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Feldspar Kaolinite
Marcasite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Sulphur Tetradymite

19 IMA Minerals at location:

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	2	17797,17799	3092
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	4	17794,17795,17797,17798	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	2	17797,17799	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	2	17797,17799	716
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	17797,17799	27770
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3	17780,17785,17809	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	17781,17782,17784,17799	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	28	17780,17781,17782,17783,17784,17785,17786,17787,17788,17789,17790,17791,17792,17794,17795,17796,17797,17798,17799,17800,17801,17803,17804,17805,17806,17807,17808,17809	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	17780	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	3	17787,17792,17803	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	17780,17804,17809	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	17799	5674
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	17785	4924
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	17780	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	8	17780,17785,17787,17791,17797,17799,17804,17809	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	9	17780,17784,17787,17791,17797,17799,17803,17805,17809	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	17797	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	17799	2045
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	2	17797,17799	510

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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