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Locality Name:
Halls Creek Goldfield, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1850
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1850

mindat Locality ID: 289393
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-289393.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Halls Creek Goldfield, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 36
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 36

Number of Child Localities: 36
Child Localities:
44 Gallon Drum Gold Mine
Brockman REE Prospect (Hastings)
Butcher Creek Gold Mine (Butcher Well)
Darcy's Find Mine
DD Gold Prospect
Delmos Gold Mine (Delmos 1; Delmos 2)
Emjay Gold Prospect
Faugh-a-Ballagh Gold Mine
Gentle Annie Prospects
Golden Crown Gold Mine
Hall's Gully Gold Mine (Hall's Gully No. 1; Hall's Gully No. 2)
Hall's Gully Workings
Halls Creek Goldfield Alluvial Areas
Jackson's Reef (Jackson's Reef North)
Jackson's South
Jubilee Gold Mine
Lady Broome Gold Mine
Lady Broome North Gold Mine
Lady Margaret Gold Mine
Majeed Gold Mine
Mount Bradley Gold Mine
Nuggetty Gully
Palm Springs Gold Mine
Phobos Gold Mine
Ruby Queen Gold Mine
Ruby Queen No. 1 Gold Mine (North Ruby Queen)
Ruby Queen No. 2 Gold Mine
Ruby Queen No. 3 Gold Mine (Pyramid)
Ruby Queen No. 4 Gold Mine (West And Left)
Ruby Queen No. 5 Gold Mine (Goliath)
Ruby Queen No. 6 Gold Mine (Ruby Queen Extended North)
Ruby Queen No. 7 Gold Mine (Rising Sun)
Saint Lawrence Gold Mine (St Lawrence)
Sunny Corner Gold Mine
Twelve Mile Gold Mine
White Elvirie River Mine

Latitude: 18°21'3"S
Longitude: 127°46'55"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -18.350833333333,127.78194444444

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	Boracite	Calcite	Copper	Corundum	Feldspar	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Zircon

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 B Be C Ca Cl Fe H Mg Na O Pb S Si Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Boracite Calcite Copper Corundum Feldspar None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Zircon

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Albite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bertrandite ()*	Boracite ()*	Calcite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Scorodite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1850	1850	1	16406	8803
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1850	1850	1	16429	9052
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	1850	1850	1	16406	606
Boracite ()*	Boracite	Mg₃B₇O₁₃Cl	1850	1850	1	16406	57
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1850	1850	2	16422,16423	27770
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1850	1850	5	16412,16414,16420,16422,16429	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1850	1850	29	16405,16407,16408,16412,16414,16416,16417,16418,16419,16420,16421,16422,16423,16424,16425,16426,16427,16429,16430,16431,16432,16433,16434,16435,16436,16437,16438,16439,16440	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1850	1850	1	16429	14640
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1850	1850	4	16414,16420,16425,16429	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1850	1850	11	16406,16412,16414,16418,16419,16420,16422,16425,16429,16433,16437	61156
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1850	1850	1	16429	1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1850	1850	1	16414	21482
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1850	1850	1	16406	5251

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Cr-00006	1850	1850					whole rock			Yes		Chromite	Cr	146977	Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia	EST PILBARA BLOCKS AND HALLS CREEK MOBILE ZONE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA	Sun et al. (1991)	10.1016/0301-9268(91)90045-C	PR50_1

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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