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Locality Name:
Trunkey Creek, Georgiana Co., New South Wales, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 290932
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-290932.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Trunkey Creek, Georgiana Co., New South Wales, Australia": 34
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 32

Number of Child Localities: 32
Child Localities:
American Star Group Of Mines
Area 15 Prospect
Area 16 Prospect
Bald Ridge Prospect
Betsys Flat Mine
Boltrells Tunnel
Byrnes Creek Prospect (Ryan Prospect; Area 12)
Chard & Arthurs Group Of Mines
Colossal Reef
Coodah Creek
Copperhania Creek Alluvials
Copperhannia Marble Deposit
Davis Reef (Davies Reef; Colo Road Prospect)
Golden Point Mines
Golden Wattle Mine (Balmers Mine; Cole Creek Mine)
Grove Creek Iron Deposit
Gully Swamp Mine
Mastodon Mine
Mount Crockwell Gold And Silver Mine
Mount Dudley Mine
Mountain Run Mine
Mt. Dudley West Mine
Number Seven Group Of Mines
Paddys Hill Mine
Patience Reef (Womans Reef)
Pine Ridge Gold Mine (Hells Hole Mine; Omrah Mine)
Rose Of Australia Mine
Scabben Flat Mines
The Reeds Iron Mine (The Reeds Iron Deposit)
Wilson Group Of Mines
Wrights Group Of Mines
Young Australian Group Of Mines

Latitude: 33°50'26"S
Longitude: 149°19'27"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -33.840555555556,149.32416666667

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: Al Au Fe K O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperCorundumFeldsparNonePyriteQuartzSpinel

6 IMA Minerals at location:
Gold  (*)Hematite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Orthoclase  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Gold  (*)CopperAu227220,7221,7222,7225,7227,7228,7229,7233,7234,7236,7237,7239,7241,7242,7244,7245,7246,7247,7248,7249,7251,725230554
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O327237,725014640
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O41724114899
Orthoclase  (*)FeldsparK(AlSi3O8)172262349
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS237227,7246,724739462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2187220,7221,7222,7226,7227,7228,7229,7233,7234,7236,7239,7241,7242,7244,7246,7247,7251,725261156



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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