Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Becks Point, Hillgrove, Sandon Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 305488
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-305488.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Becks Point, Hillgrove, Sandon Co., New South Wales, Australia": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Becks Spur Prospect
Cocking & Cranstons Prospect
Faints Clay Prospect
Faints Scheelite Mine
Fishers Antimony Mine
Fishers Scheelite Prospect
Freestone Mine (Fishers Antimony Mine)
Freestones Prospect
Keys Mine
Lower Becks Creek Prospect
Mayview Prospect
Paytens & Company Prospect
Richardsons Prospect
Smyths Mine

Latitude: 30°36'1"S
Longitude: 151°56'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.600277777778,151.93333333333

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	Berthierite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote
Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Scheelite	Stibnite	Zircon

Alunite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Berthierite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cervantite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Siderite ()*
Stibnite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Ti W Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Berthierite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Diaspore Epidote
Mica None Pyrite Quartz Scheelite Stibnite Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	9529	966
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	6	9518,9520,9521,9522,9523,9529	9052
Berthierite ()*	Berthierite	FeSb₂S₄	1	9521	343
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	9520,9521,9523,9529	27770
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	6	9518,9520,9521,9522,9527,9528	352
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	9521	27198
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	9529	1025
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	9529	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	9518,9521,9523,9524,9530	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	9529	5433
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	9521,9529	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6	9518,9520,9521,9522,9523,9529	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	9518,9520,9521,9522,9523,9527,9528,9529	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	5	9520,9522,9523,9525,9529	4894
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	7	9517,9520,9521,9523,9524,9528,9529	6417
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	8	9518,9520,9521,9522,9523,9527,9528,9529	3418
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	9520	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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