Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago Region, New Zealand

mindat Locality ID: 298541
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-298541.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago Region, New Zealand": 93
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 83

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Arrow Junction
Arrow River (Arrow Valley)
Arrowtown
Cardrona
Forbes Range
Gibbston
Glenorchy
Humboldt Range
Macetown
Queenstown
Serpentine Saddle
Shotover
Shotover River
Skippers
Wanaka

Latitude: 44°51'46"S
Longitude: 168°41'13"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -44.862777777778,168.68694444444

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	Ardennite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper
Corundum	Covellite	Digenite	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	Kaolinite	Mica	Nickeline	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stilpnomelane	Titanite

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Ardennite-(As) ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*
Barroisite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Clinochlore ()*
Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Digenite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Piemontite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Rutile ()*	Scheelite ()*
Spessartine ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stilpnomelane ()*	Titanite ()*

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 Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Na O P Pb S Si Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Ardennite Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Copper
Corundum Covellite Digenite Epidote Feldspar Garnet Kaolinite Mica Nickeline None
Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Stilpnomelane Titanite

34 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	1	87869	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	5	87867,87869,87893,87914,87916	8803
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	2	87923,87924	3092
Ardennite-(As) ()*	Ardennite	Mn²⁺₄Al₄(AlMg)(AsO₄)(SiO₄)₂(Si₃O₁₀)(OH)₆	1	87867	34
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	9	87888,87893,87894,87897,87923,87931,87942,87943,87944	9052
Barroisite ()*	Amphibole	(NaCa)(Mg₃Al₂)(Si₇Al)O₂₂(OH)₂	1	87898	49
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	87867,87893,87894,87923,87949	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	87867,87916,87923	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	87922	3902
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	87885	1756
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	87867	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	87867,87916	4165
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	87867	1027
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	6	87869,87885,87893,87914,87916,87949	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	87923	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	46	87868,87871,87872,87873,87874,87875,87877,87878,87879,87880,87882,87883,87884,87893,87900,87902,87903,87904,87905,87906,87908,87911,87913,87915,87917,87919,87920,87923,87924,87927,87931,87936,87937,87938,87939,87940,87941,87942,87943,87944,87945,87947,87948,87952,87955,87958	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	2	87893,87916	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	87867,87949	14640
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	1	87914	367
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	87894,87923	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	87924	14899
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	87893	17380
Piemontite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂(Al₂Mn³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	87867,87869	260
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	8	87893,87894,87916,87923,87931,87942,87943,87944	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	3	87893,87897,87916	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	17	87867,87869,87872,87873,87885,87888,87893,87894,87897,87905,87914,87916,87923,87931,87942,87943,87944	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	87869	1711
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	2	87869,87949	969
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2	87867,87894	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	8	87888,87889,87890,87891,87894,87895,87896,87897	4894
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	3	87867,87869,87949	1214
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	87916,87923	21482
Stilpnomelane ()*	Stilpnomelane Clay	(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)₈(Si,Al)₁₂(O,OH)₃₆·nH₂O	1	87916	456
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4	87885,87893,87894,87914	4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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