Mineral Evolution Database

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

mindat Locality ID: 299095
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-299095.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Skippers, Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago Region, New Zealand": 31
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 31

Number of Child Localities: 31
Child Localities:
Ashworths Flat
Atley Terrace
Bill Guys Terrace
Blue Jacket Terrace
Boomerang Terrace
British American Mine
Burkes Terrace
Cooks Terrace
Crystal Mine
Dead Mans Terrace
Hazeels Terrace
Leviathan Mine
Londonderry Terrace
Maori Point
Monks Terrace
Muddy Terrace (Muddy Creek Terrace)
Nugget And Cornish Mine (The Nugget; Gallant Tipperary; Gallant Tip)
Phoenix Extended Mine
Phoenix Mine (Scandinavian; Achilles; Bullen; Mount Aurum)
Pleasant Terrace
Sainsbury Terrace
Sandhill Cut
Skippers Point
Skippers Point Manganese Prospect
Sloans Flat
Smiths Terrace
Stoney Terrace (Stony Terrace; Stony Creek Terrace)
Strohles Flat
Tyrees Cut
Wire Rope Terrace
Yates Terrace

Latitude: 44°49'59"S
Longitude: 168°41'40"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -44.833055555556,168.69444444444

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.

Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Garnet	None	Pyrite	Quartz
Rhodonite

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 Fe H Mn O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Garnet None Pyrite Quartz
Rhodonite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Epidote ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Spessartine ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	4	87931,87942,87943,87944	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	87949	27770
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	87949	8173
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	16	87927,87931,87936,87937,87938,87939,87940,87941,87942,87943,87944,87945,87947,87948,87952,87955	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	87949	14640
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	87931,87942,87943,87944	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	87931,87942,87943,87944	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	87949	969
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	87949	1214

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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