Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Blayney, Bathurst Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 292281
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-292281.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blayney, Bathurst Co., New South Wales, Australia": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Blayney Iron Mine
Blue Bird Mine (Bluebird Prospect)
Hodsons Mine (Pleasant View Prospect)
Last Chance Mine
Letondeurs Mine
Lowe And Duffields Shaft
McPhillamys Hill Mine (McPhillamys Prospect; McPhillamys Gold Deposit)
Quigley's Hill Copper Mine (Osborn's Copper Mine)
Sugarloaf Hill Mines

Latitude: 33°32'16"S
Longitude: 149°18'41"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -33.537777777778,149.31138888889

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	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Feldspar	Mica	Nickeline	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Albite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	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 Ba 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:
Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Feldspar Mica Nickeline None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

16 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	4178	8803
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	4178	9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	4178	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	4178	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	4178,4179	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	4178	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	4178	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	4173,4174,4175,4176,4177,4178,4180	30554
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	4178	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	4178	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	4178	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	4174,4175,4176,4177,4178,4180	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	4178	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	4178	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	4178	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	4178	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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