Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cowper Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 293994
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-293994.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cowper Co., New South Wales, Australia": 42
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 37

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Bald Hills
Buckeroo Woolshed Ironstone
Byrock (Byerock)
Curraweena
Doradilla
Gongolgon Kaolin Prospect (White Tank Kaolin Deposit)
Green Prospect
ID4 Prospect
Keerugulla Lake
Knightvale Prospect
Lafoes Tank Prospect (Defoe's Tank; Defoe's Dam)
Lindsay Park Prospect
Mackay's Tank Prospect
Mt Dijoe Mine
Mulga Tank Prospect
T11 Prospect
T14a Prospect
T17 Prospect
T57 Prospect
Wilga Downs Prospect

Latitude: 30°32'25"S
Longitude: 146°18'24"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.540277777778,146.30666666667

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.

Amphibole	Apatite	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum
Covellite	Diaspore	Digenite	Epidote	Fluorite	Garnet	Iron	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite
Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile
Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stannite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Titanite	Vesuvianite	Wollastonite

Actinolite ()*	Andradite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bismuth ()*
Bismuthinite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Calomel ()*	Cassiterite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*
Digenite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Malayaite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Scorodite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stannite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*	Tungsten ()*
Varlamoffite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Hg K Mg Na O P Pb S Sb Si Sn Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum
Covellite Diaspore Digenite Epidote Fluorite Garnet Iron Kaolinite Malachite Marcasite
Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile
Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Stannite Stibnite Tetrahedrite Titanite Vesuvianite Wollastonite

48 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	6172,6176	3419
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	2	6176,6179	1534
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	7	6170,6172,6174,6175,6176,6178,6179	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	6174	5509
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	4	6170,6174,6175,6176	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	3	6174,6175,6176	1935
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	6170,6179	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	7	6160,6170,6177,6179,6183,6196,6198	27770
Calomel ()*	None	HgCl	1	6174	91
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	9	6170,6172,6175,6176,6177,6178,6179,6181,6187	5171
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	6170,6174	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	14	6158,6167,6170,6172,6175,6176,6178,6179,6188,6193,6194,6195,6196,6198	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	6174	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	6170,6174	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	6174	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	6174	1027
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	3	6170,6176,6179	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	4	6158,6159,6175,6177	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	4	6170,6175,6177,6198	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	6	6170,6175,6176,6177,6179,6180	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	9	6158,6167,6175,6176,6179,6180,6195,6196,6198	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	6165	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3	6159,6189,6192	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	6	6158,6170,6172,6183,6184,6188	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	6174,6182	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	5	6170,6175,6176,6179,6194	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	6172,6174	12537
Malayaite ()*	Titanite	CaSnO(SiO₄)	5	6170,6172,6175,6177,6179	40
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	5	6158,6174,6175,6178,6196	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	5	6174,6179,6190,6196,6198	17380
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	6176	2273
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	6177	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	19	6158,6159,6165,6167,6168,6170,6172,6174,6175,6176,6178,6180,6181,6183,6188,6193,6195,6196,6198	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	6181	1725
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	12	6158,6167,6170,6172,6174,6175,6176,6178,6179,6193,6196,6198	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	23	6158,6159,6160,6161,6165,6167,6168,6170,6172,6175,6177,6179,6180,6181,6183,6188,6189,6193,6194,6195,6196,6197,6198	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	3	6170,6177,6179	4894
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1	6174	1153
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	6174	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	13	6158,6167,6170,6172,6174,6175,6176,6179,6180,6193,6195,6196,6198	21482
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄	2	6170,6179	668
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	6174	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	6179	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	3	6170,6172,6176	2562
Tungsten ()*	Iron	W	1	6179	23
Varlamoffite ()*	Rutile	(Sn,Fe)(O,OH)₂	1	6179	56
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	3	6170,6176,6179	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	2	6176,6179	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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