Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Boulder Main Reef Gold Mine (Great Boulder Main Reef; Boulder South Extended), Golden Mile Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2680
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2600

mindat Locality ID: 272421
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-272421.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Boulder Main Reef Gold Mine (Great Boulder Main Reef; Boulder South Extended), Golden Mile Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 30°47'49"S
Longitude: 121°30'19"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.796944444444,121.50527777778

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.

Acanthite	Calcite	Copper	Melonite	Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite

Aguilarite ()*	Altaite ()*	Calaverite ()*	Calcite ()*	Coloradoite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Gold ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Krennerite ()*	Nagyágite ()*
Petzite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Roscoelite ()*	Sylvanite ()*
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 Hg K Mg O Pb S Sb Se Si Te V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Au C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K Mg O Pb S Sb Se Si Te V Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Calcite Copper Melonite Mica None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Aguilarite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₄SeS	2680	2600	87
Altaite ()*	Rocksalt	PbTe	2638	2620	489
Calaverite ()*	Melonite	AuTe₂	2638	2620	361
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2680	2600	27770
Coloradoite ()*	Sphalerite	HgTe	2680	2600	169
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2680	2600	9895
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2638	2620	30554
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	2680	2600	784
Krennerite ()*	None	Au₃AgTe₈	2638	2620	111
Nagyágite ()*	None	[Pb₃(Pb,Sb)₃S₆](Au,Te)₃	2638	2620	67
Petzite ()*	None	Ag₃AuTe₂	2638	2620	409
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2680	2600	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2680	2600	61156
Roscoelite ()*	Mica	KV³⁺₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2680	2600	253
Sylvanite ()*	Melonite	AgAuTe₄	2638	2620	337
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	2680	2600	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2680	2600	5317

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Prioritized?	Sample Source	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
EG90_845-00003	2678	2670	2674±4	Pb-Pb		zircon	Yes	Zircon			223	Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia		Kent and McDougall (1995)	10.2113/gsecongeo.90.4.845	EG90_845
Hg-00117	2680	2600		Ar-Ar, U-Pb	high		Yes		Coloradoite	Hg	223	Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia		Kent and McDougall (1995)	10.2113/gsecongeo.90.4.845	EG90_845
EG90_845-00002	2638	2620	2629±9	Ar-Ar		muscovite	Yes	Muscovite		Au, Te	11401	Golden Mile Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Golden Mile deposit	Kent and McDougall (1995)	10.2113/gsecongeo.90.4.845	EG90_845

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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