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Locality Name:
Dalgety Downs Station, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 279042
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-279042.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dalgety Downs Station, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Dalgety Downs Meteorite

Latitude: 25°19'59"S
Longitude: 116°10'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -25.333055555556,116.18277777778

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Cr Cu Fe Ni O P S Ti 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperCorundumCubaniteIronNonePerovskiteSphaleriteSpinel

9 IMA Minerals at location:
Chromite  (*)Cohenite  (*)Copper  (*)Ilmenite  (*)Iron  (*)
Isocubanite  (*)Schreibersite  (*)Taenite  (*)Troilite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O41186563902
Cohenite  (*)PerovskiteCFe311865677
Copper  (*)CopperCu1186563846
Ilmenite  (*)CorundumFe2+Ti4+O31186565433
Iron  (*)IronFe1186561089
Isocubanite  (*)Sphalerite CubaniteCuFe2S3118656191
Schreibersite  (*)None(Fe,Ni)3P118656374
Taenite  (*)None(Ni,Fe)118656703
Troilite  (*)NoneFeS1186561044



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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