Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mount McDonald, Bathurst Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 292935
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-292935.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mount McDonald, Bathurst Co., New South Wales, Australia": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Balmoral Group Of Mines (Balmoral Mine; Balmoral Gold Mine; Balmoral-Bobby Burns Mine; Bobby Burns Mine)
Balmoral West Mine (West Balmoral Gold Mine)
Caledonian Mine (Caledonian Reform Mine)
Eldorado Copper Mine (Eldorado Mine)
Eureka Group Of Mines (Eureka Group Gold Mine; Eureka Gold Mine)
Grants Amalgamated Group Of Mines (Grant & Mansfield)
Great Eastern Mine (Great Eastern Gold Mine; Fergussons Lease Mine)
Kennedy & Cash Mine
Milburn Creek Copper Mine (Milburn Creek Mine)
Olivers Freehold Mine (Olivers Freehold Gold Mine)
Shamrock Group Mines (Shamrock Group Gold Mines)
Webb North Mine (Webb & Party Mine)
Webb South Mine
Woolston And Company Mine (Woolston & Co. Gold Mine)

Latitude: 33°54'49"S
Longitude: 148°56'51"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -33.913611111111,148.9475

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	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Cubanite	Malachite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Quartz	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cubanite ()*
Gold ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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: Ag Al As Au C Cu Fe H K O S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Cubanite Malachite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Quartz Sphalerite Wurtzite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2	4306,4318	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	4314	5509
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	4314	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	4314	27198
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	4314	802
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	11	4306,4307,4308,4309,4310,4311,4312,4315,4316,4318,4319	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	4314	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	4311,4313	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	7	4306,4307,4311,4313,4314,4317,4318	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	4314	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	13	4307,4308,4309,4310,4311,4312,4313,4314,4315,4316,4317,4318,4319	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	4314	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	4314	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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