Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Kurundi Goldfield, Wauchope, Barkly Region, Northern Territory, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 294467
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-294467.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kurundi Goldfield, Wauchope, Barkly Region, Northern Territory, Australia": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Cairns Gold Prospect
Davidson's Mine
Great Davenport Gold Mine
Kurinelli Gold Mines (Kurinelli Alluvial Gold Areas)
Kurinelli Meteorites
Kurundi Gold Prospect
Power Of Wealth Gold Mine
Weka Gold Prospect

Latitude: 20°34'57"S
Longitude: 134°50'41"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -20.5825,134.84472222222

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.

Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Iron	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel

Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Iron ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Maghemite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

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 Au Ca Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Diaspore Iron Kaolinite Mica None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Spinel

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	10534	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	10535	3902
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	10536	2970
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	10535	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	6	10531,10533,10534,10536,10537,10538	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	5	10531,10533,10534,10535,10538	14640
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	10535	1089
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	10533,10535	5591
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	10535	229
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	10531,10535	14899
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	10535	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	10538	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	10533,10534	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	10531,10533,10534,10535,10536,10537,10538	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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