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Locality Name:
Upper Bingara, Murchison Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 280108
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-280108.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Upper Bingara, Murchison Co., New South Wales, Australia": 30
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 29

Number of Child Localities: 24
Child Localities:
Ballarat Reef (Rise And Shine Reef; Lady Morgan Mine)
Barrack Creek Alluvial Gold
Bendigo Reef (Old Bendigo Mine; Bendigo Flat)
Black Beef Lead (Sawgut Point; Cement Point)
Black Reef
Carneys Reef
Coorangra Flat
Golden Gate Mine
Golden Gate Reef (Old Golden Gate)
Gulf Creek
Harrison's Mine
Horsfalls Copper Mine
Mona Mine (Mona Copper Lode)
Monies Reef
Mt Everest Copper Mine
Piedmont Magnesite Mine (Piedmont Magnesite Deposit)
Ruby Hill Fossicking Reserve
Sweet Nell Copper Lode
The Shot And Miss
The Wet Lead (The Wet Lead & Extensions)
Upper Bingara Magnesite Deposit
Victory Lode
Withers Mine
Wyndhams Gully Alluvial Gold

Latitude: 30°3'3"S
Longitude: 150°38'28"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.050833333333,150.64111111111

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	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore	Feldspar	Garnet	Malachite
Marcasite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Albite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Maghemite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrope ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Au C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore Feldspar Garnet Malachite
Marcasite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite

24 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	8822	8803
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	8	8822,8823,8824,8826,8828,8831,8835,8836	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	4	8820,8822,8826,8828	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	8	8808,8820,8822,8823,8826,8827,8831,8835	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	8820	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	7	8820,8822,8823,8826,8828,8835,8836	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	8826,8828	4165
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	8829	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	8820,8822,8826,8828	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	3	8820,8822,8826	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	15	8808,8809,8810,8811,8812,8813,8814,8815,8816,8818,8825,8827,8832,8833,8837	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	8820,8822,8828	14640
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	8820,8822	229
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	2	8829,8834	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	8820,8822,8828	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	9	8822,8823,8824,8825,8826,8828,8831,8835,8836	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	3	8820,8822,8823	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	8822	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	11	8808,8815,8816,8820,8822,8823,8826,8828,8831,8835,8836	39462
Pyrope ()*	Garnet	Mg₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	8830	341
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	13	8808,8810,8815,8816,8820,8822,8823,8826,8828,8829,8831,8835,8836	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	8820,8822,8823,8826,8828	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	2	8820,8826	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	4	8820,8822,8826,8828	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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