Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Purnululu National Park (Bungle Bungle), Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1850
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1850

mindat Locality ID: 272710
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-272710.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Purnululu National Park (Bungle Bungle), Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Fish Hole Waterhole Prospect
Mount Kinahan Prospect (Castle Creek)
Piccaninny Crater

Latitude: 17°32'41"S
Longitude: 128°17'4"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -17.544722222222,128.28444444444

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.

Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Scheelite

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: C Ca Cu H Mg O S Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Malachite None Not in a structural group Quartz Scheelite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Anhydrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Malachite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1850	1850	1	16502	1588
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1850	1850	1	16501	5509
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1850	1850	1	16502	5707
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1850	1850	1	16502	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1850	1850	1	16502	9895
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1850	1850	2	16501,16502	12537
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1850	1850	1	16502	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1850	1850	1	16502	4894

1 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
	Cr-00006	1850	1850					whole rock			Yes		Chromite	Cr	146977	Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia	EST PILBARA BLOCKS AND HALLS CREEK MOBILE ZONE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA	Sun et al. (1991)	10.1016/0301-9268(91)90045-C	PR50_1

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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