Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mellenbye Station, Yalgoo Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 278692
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-278692.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mellenbye Station, Yalgoo Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Brandy Hill South (Shaw Well)
Mellenbye Meteorite

Latitude: 28°48'51"S
Longitude: 116°24'47"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -28.814166666667,116.41305555556

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.

Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Cubanite	Diaspore	Malachite	Mica	Nickeline
None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Quartz	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite	Valleriite	Wurtzite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*
Covellite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Goethite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Valleriite ()*

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 As C Cu Fe H K Mg Ni O S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Cubanite Diaspore Malachite Mica Nickeline
None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Pyrite Quartz Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite Valleriite Wurtzite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	18981	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	18981	5509
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	18981	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	18981	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	18981	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	18981	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	18981	802
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	18981	7437
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	18981	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	18981	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	18981	17380
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	18981	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	18981	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	18981	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	18981	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	18981	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	18981	1803
Valleriite ()*	Valleriite	2[(Fe,Cu)S]·1.53[(Mg,Al)(OH)₂]	1	18981	237

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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