Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough Region, New Zealand

mindat Locality ID: 297841
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-297841.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough Region, New Zealand": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Cape Jackson Mine (Turner; Ravenscliffe)
D'Urville Island Mine
Endeavour Inlet Mine
Golden Point Mine (Golden Eagle)
Picton Mine

Latitude: 41°6'28"S
Longitude: 174°3'58"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -41.107777777778,174.06611111111

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.

Arsenolite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Diaspore	Malachite	Marcasite
Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Spinel	Stibnite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cervantite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Goethite ()*
Gold ()*	Kermesite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Senarmontite ()*
Stibnite ()*

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 Ca Cu Fe H K O S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenolite Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Diaspore Malachite Marcasite
Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Spinel Stibnite

21 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	87577	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	87576	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	87577	27770
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	1	87577	352
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	87576	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	87576	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	87576	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	87576	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	87576	2970
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	87577	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3	87575,87577,87578	30554
Kermesite ()*	None	Sb₂OS₂	1	87577	230
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	87576	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	87576	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	87577	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	87577	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	87577	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2	87576,87577	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	87577	61156
Senarmontite ()*	Arsenolite	Sb₂O₃	1	87577	179
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	87577	3418

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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