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Locality Name:
Metz, Sandon Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 305247
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-305247.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Metz, Sandon Co., New South Wales, Australia": 38
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 38

Number of Child Localities: 38
Child Localities:
Big Bend Lodes
Chinamans Creek Alluvials
Chinamans Gully Prospect
Cooney Creek Prospect
Coxs Reef
Dam Adit
Days Reef
Dicks Mine (Midas Shaft; Wet Shaft)
Endurance Company Sunlight Adit
Freak And Llewellen Prospect (Chaffeys Show)
Gibsons Deposit
Gibsons Mine
Glengravel Quarry (Metz Quarry)
Greenvale Mine
John Sypkens Mine (Chaffeys Mine)
Kingelty And Tassells (Prendergasts Reef)
Kurrajong Mine (Tassels Mine; Johnsons Reef)
Magazine Reef
Mortons Mine
Murgatroyds Adit
New Bakers Creek Mine (Bakers Creek Consuls; Middle Reef)
New England Scheelite Company Block
Oscars Reef
Rocky River Gold Company Lodes (Stuarts Prospect)
Skorpion Adit
Smiths Reef
Southern Centennial Adit
Sunlight Lode
Syndicate Deposit (Syndicate Reef)
Sypkens Line Of Lode (Greenbush Shaft)
Tarveinens Folly (Tarveinens)
The Black Lode
The Centennial Mine
The Lady Hopeton (The Hopeton; The Earlof Hopeton; Root Hog)
The Old Adit
The Upper Starlight Adit
Trimms Adit
West Sunlight Lode

Latitude: 30°34'4"S
Longitude: 151°52'53"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.567777777778,151.88138888889

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.

Arsenic	Arsenolite	Arsenopyrite	Berthierite	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Kaolinite	Mica	Nickeline
None	Pyrite	Quartz	Scheelite	Stibnite

Antimony ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Berthierite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cervantite ()*
Chapmanite ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Senarmontite ()*
Siderite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tin ()*

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 K O S Sb Si Sn W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Arsenolite Arsenopyrite Berthierite Calcite Clay Copper Kaolinite Mica Nickeline
None Pyrite Quartz Scheelite Stibnite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	4	9670,9677,9679,9681	363
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	14	9667,9670,9671,9672,9676,9677,9679,9681,9683,9686,9690,9691,9694,9700	9052
Berthierite ()*	Berthierite	FeSb₂S₄	1	9681	343
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	9663,9665,9674,9681,9696	27770
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	7	9666,9676,9678,9687,9692,9699,9700	352
Chapmanite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂Sb³⁺(Si₂O₅)O₃(OH)	1	9676	31
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	22	9664,9667,9669,9670,9671,9676,9677,9678,9679,9680,9683,9686,9689,9690,9691,9692,9694,9695,9696,9698,9699,9700	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	9681	2812
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	9696	5591
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	9691,9693,9696	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	14	9667,9670,9672,9676,9677,9679,9681,9683,9686,9690,9691,9693,9694,9700	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	9681	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	33	9663,9665,9666,9667,9668,9669,9670,9671,9672,9676,9677,9678,9679,9680,9681,9682,9683,9684,9685,9686,9687,9688,9689,9690,9691,9692,9693,9694,9695,9696,9697,9698,9700	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	20	9663,9665,9670,9671,9674,9677,9679,9680,9681,9684,9685,9687,9688,9689,9691,9692,9694,9695,9696,9697	4894
Senarmontite ()*	Arsenolite	Sb₂O₃	1	9693	179
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	3	9665,9672,9681	6417
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	31	9663,9665,9666,9667,9668,9669,9670,9671,9672,9676,9677,9678,9679,9680,9681,9683,9684,9685,9686,9687,9688,9689,9690,9691,9692,9693,9694,9695,9696,9698,9700	3418
Tin ()*	None	Sn	1	9670	63

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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