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Locality Name:
Yandicoogina Goldfield, Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 4000
Youngest recorded age at locality: 2500

mindat Locality ID: 273984
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-273984.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Yandicoogina Goldfield, Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Aunt Sally Gold Mine
Black And White Gold Mine
Black Shepherd Gold Mine (Shannon; Thelma)
Cyclone Gold Mine (Harvest)
Eastern Gold Mine
Eastern No. 1 Gold Mine
Edith Gold Mine
Granite Gold Mine
Invincible Gold Mine
Isabella Harriett Mine
Jupiter Gold Mine
Lady Adelaide Gold Mine (Lady Adelaide No. 1; Beatrice; Harp Of Erin)
Lightning Ridge Cu-Mo Prospect
Patrick Gold Mine
Trilby Gold Mine
Uncle Tom Gold Mine
Uncle Tom West Gold Mine

Latitude: 21°24'40"S
Longitude: 120°10'44"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -21.411111111111,120.17888888889

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.

Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Sulphur

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 C Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Sulphur

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Azurite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Malachite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Sulphur ()*

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
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	4000	2500	1	15879	5509
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4000	2500	1	15876	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4000	2500	3	15876,15879,15882	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4000	2500	15	15875,15876,15877,15878,15879,15880,15881,15882,15883,15885,15886,15888,15889,15890,15891	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4000	2500	2	15876,15879	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	4000	2500	1	15887	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2860	2800	1	15887	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4000	2500	4	15876,15879,15887,15890	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4000	2500	8	15876,15878,15879,15881,15882,15883,15887,15890	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4000	2500	2	15882,15890	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	4000	2500	1	15876	2045

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
EG97_873-00018	pegmatite
EG97_873-00019	pegmatite
EG97_873-00020	pegmatite
EG97_873-00021	pegmatite

5 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
EG97_873-00018	2860	2800	2830±30	Rb-Sr	muscovite	Yes	Muscovite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00019	2855	2823	2839±16	Pb-Pb	cassiterite	Yes	Cassiterite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00020	2921	2815	2868±53	Pb-Pb	cassiterite	Yes	Cassiterite	248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
EG97_873-00021	3293	2843	3068±225	Pb-Pb	apatite	Yes		248962	Moolyella Pegmatite Field, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Moolyella	Sweetapple and Collins (2002)	10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.873	EG97_873
vms-00048	4000	2500	Archean			Yes		122924	Copper Gorge Prospect, Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Copper George	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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