Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Shooters Hill, Westmoreland Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 293262
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-293262.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Shooters Hill, Westmoreland Co., New South Wales, Australia": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Chatham Valley Mines
Shooters Hill Mine
Tuglow Copper Mine (Bouchiers Mine; Irskines Mine)

Latitude: 33°54'24"S
Longitude: 149°53'36"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -33.906666666667,149.89333333333

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	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: Au C Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	10074	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	10074	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	10074	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	10074	3846
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	10074	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3	10072,10073,10074	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	10074	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	10074	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	10072,10074	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	10074	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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