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:
Redpa, Marrawah District, Circular Head Municipality, Tasmania, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 285753
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-285753.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Redpa, Marrawah District, Circular Head Municipality, Tasmania, Australia": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Redpa Quarry

Latitude: 40°55'45"S
Longitude: 144°45'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -40.929166666667,144.75

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.

Amorphous	Analcime	Apophyllite	Aragonite	Calcite	Clay	Gyrolite	Natrolite	None	Smectite-vermiculite
Tobermorite

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Gyrolite ()*
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Opal ()*	Saponite ()*
Stevensite ()*	Tacharanite ()*	Tobermorite ()*

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 C Ca F Fe H K Mg Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Apophyllite Aragonite Calcite Clay Gyrolite Natrolite None Smectite-vermiculite
Tobermorite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	12934	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	12934	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	12934	27770
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	1	12934	303
Gyrolite ()*	Gyrolite	NaCa₁₆(Si₂₃Al)O₆₀(OH)₈·14H₂O	1	12934	142
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	1	12934	425
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	12934	1236
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	12934	471
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	12934	2994
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	12934	301
Stevensite ()*	Clay	(Ca,Na)_xMg_3-ySi₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	12934	57
Tacharanite ()*	None	Ca₁₂Al₂Si₁₈O₃₃(OH)₃₆	1	12934	47
Tobermorite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₇(H₂O)₂·(Ca·3H₂O)	1	12934	114

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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