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Locality Name:
Gilgunnia, Blaxland Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 296359
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-296359.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gilgunnia, Blaxland Co., New South Wales, Australia": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Cripples Reward
Eight Hour Claim
Hand In Hand Mine
Her Dream Mine
Hidden Treasure (Off Chance)
Keep It Dark
Last Chance Mine
Legal Right Claim
Mallee Bull Claim
May Day Prospect (The May Day Prospect)
May Day Tail Prospect
Moonlight Mine
No.1 East
Osmetti & Party
Prospecting Claim
Rileys Claim
Rising Sun Mine
Silver Ray Mine
Tarcombe Reef (The Great Tarcombe)
The Slanter (The Stanter)
Trilby
Welcome Shaft

Latitude: 32°24'55"S
Longitude: 146°3'39"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -32.415277777778,146.06083333333

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.

Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc	Tetrahedrite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Boulangerite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cuprite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*	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 C Cu Fe H K Mg O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Malachite Marcasite Mica Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Talc Tetrahedrite

19 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	1	4423	9052
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	1	4423	843
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	4423	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	4423,4428,4431	27198
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	4423	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	4422,4423,4428,4431	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	18	4414,4415,4416,4417,4418,4419,4420,4421,4422,4423,4425,4426,4427,4428,4429,4431,4432,4433	30554
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	1	4423	784
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	4417	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	4423	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	4423	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	4423	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	14	4414,4416,4417,4418,4419,4421,4422,4423,4425,4426,4428,4429,4430,4431	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	4423	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	18	4414,4415,4416,4417,4418,4419,4420,4422,4423,4425,4426,4427,4428,4429,4430,4431,4432,4433	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	4423,4428,4431	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	4423	3337
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	4423	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	4423	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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