Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Kempfield, Georgiana Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 299719
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-299719.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kempfield, Georgiana Co., New South Wales, Australia": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Kempfield Barytes Mine (Kempfield Deposit)
Sugarloaf Mine (Sugarloaf Zone)

Latitude: 33°46'39"S
Longitude: 149°15'1"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -33.7775,149.25027777778

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.

Acanthite	Alunite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Diaspore	Feldspar	Mica	None
Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Albite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chlorargyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pearceite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	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: Ag Al As Ba C Cl Cu Fe H K Na O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Alunite Baryte Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Diaspore Feldspar Mica None
Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	7207	2793
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	7207	8803
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	7207	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	7207	11547
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	7207	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	7207	1382
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	7207	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	7207	7437
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	7207	2228
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	7207	17380
Pearceite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(As,Sb)₂S₇]	1	7207	249
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	1	7207	716
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	7207	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	7207	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	7207	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	7207	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	7207	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	7207	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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