Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Dundas Nature Reserve, Esperance Shire, Western Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 278973
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-278973.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dundas Nature Reserve, Esperance Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Mount Andrew Project

Latitude: 32°39'53"S
Longitude: 122°58'32"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -32.664722222222,122.97555555556

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.

Clay	Copper	Corundum	Diamond	Mica	None	Pentlandite	Perovskite	Spinel	Tridymite

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 Ca Fe H K Mg Na Ni O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Copper Corundum Diamond Mica None Pentlandite Perovskite Spinel Tridymite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Diamond ()*	Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Nepheline ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Perovskite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Spinel ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	1	16345	697
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	16345	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	16345	5433
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	1	16345	884
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	16345	1512
Perovskite ()*	Perovskite	CaTiO₃	1	16345	495
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	16345	2273
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	16345	1934

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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