Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Wee Jasper, Buccleuch Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 27309
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27309.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wee Jasper, Buccleuch Co., New South Wales, Australia": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Black Andrew Mine (Black Andrew Deposit)
Glen Deposit (The Glen; The Glen Mine)
Nottingham Mine (Nottingham Deposit)

Latitude: 35°11'15"S
Longitude: 148°41'33"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -35.1875,148.6925

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Epidote	Ilvaite	Malachite
Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Serpentine	Sphalerite	Spinel

Amesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Covellite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilvaite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Wittichenite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Fe H O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite Epidote Ilvaite Malachite
Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Serpentine Sphalerite Spinel

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Amesite ()*	Clay Serpentine	Mg₂Al(AlSiO₅)(OH)₄	1	4572	74
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	4572	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	4572	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	4572	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	4572	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	4572	4165
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	4572	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	4572	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	4572	14640
Ilvaite ()*	Ilvaite	CaFe³⁺Fe²⁺₂O(Si₂O₇)(OH)	0		197
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	4572	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	4572	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	4572	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	4572	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	4572	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	4572	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	4572	21482
Wittichenite ()*	None	Cu₃BiS₃	1	4572	297

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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