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Locality Name:
Cow Flat, Bathurst Co., New South Wales, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 291393
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-291393.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cow Flat, Bathurst Co., New South Wales, Australia": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Balmoral Mine
Belmore Mine (Belmore Area 1; Belmore Area 2)
Browns Creek Mine
Caloola Creek Mine
Caloola Marble Quarry (Commonwealth White Marble Quarry)
Caloola North Prospect
Cow Flat Mine
Cow Flat North Mine
Elliots Mine (Mountain Maid Lode)
Esmeralda Mine
Foster Valley
McGills Quarry (Edwards Marble Quarry)
Red Hill Mine
Red Hill South Mine
Rise And Shine Mine
Rockley Mount Mine (The Mount Mine)
Shepherds Mine
Sugarloaf Mine

Latitude: 33°35'27"S
Longitude: 149°31'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -33.590833333333,149.51666666667
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 As Au C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mo Na O Pb S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AmphiboleArsenopyriteCalciteChalcopyriteClayCopperCorundumFeldsparMalachiteMarcasite
MolybdeniteNickelineNoneNot in a structural groupPyriteQuartzRocksaltSphaleriteSpinelTalc
Wollastonite

20 IMA Minerals at location:
Actinolite  (*)Albite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Azurite  (*)Bornite  (*)
Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Hematite  (*)
Magnetite  (*)Malachite  (*)Marcasite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Pyrrhotite  (*)Quartz  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Talc  (*)Wollastonite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite  (*)Amphibole   Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe2+0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)234238,4244,42503419
Albite  (*)FeldsparNa(AlSi3O8)142528803
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS142529052
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)244239,4249,4253,42545509
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS4142395516
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)24237,424327770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS274237,4239,4243,4246,4249,4252,425427198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS34237,4246,425424243
Gold  (*)CopperAu54239,4240,4245,4250,425130554
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O31425414640
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O424252,425414899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)254239,4249,4252,4253,425412537
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS224237,42545674
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS2142465800
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS284237,4239,4240,4243,4246,4249,4252,425439462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S834237,4246,42549056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO284238,4239,4240,4245,4246,4252,4253,425461156
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS34237,4246,425421482
Talc  (*)Clay TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)2142443337
Wollastonite  (*)WollastoniteCaSiO3142391247


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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