Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mt Borah, Sandon Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 305842
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-305842.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mt Borah, Sandon Co., New South Wales, Australia": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Borah Creek
Bowes Prospect
Brennans Prospect
Buffalo Ranche
Carters Prospect
F Woods Prospect
Golden Gully Mine
Hand In Hand Prospect
Houghtons Prospect 1
Houghtons Prospect 2
Mount Borah Mine
Robertsons Prospect
Sherwood Colluvium Prospect
Sherwood Mine
Smiths Prospect
Sunnyside Mine (Shining Sun; Sunnyside Prospect)
Tobins Prospect
Woodside Prospect

Latitude: 30°45'11"S
Longitude: 151°49'52"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.753055555556,151.83111111111

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	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Feldspar	Kaolinite
Malachite	Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Albite ()*	Antimony ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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 Na O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Feldspar Kaolinite
Malachite Mica None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	3	9705,9709,9710	8803
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	1	9713	363
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	7	9709,9711,9712,9713,9716,9718,9720	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	9709,9713,9716,9720	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	9716	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3	9709,9710,9716	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	9716	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	11	9703,9706,9708,9709,9711,9712,9713,9715,9716,9718,9720	30554
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	9713	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	9708	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	7	9709,9710,9711,9712,9713,9716,9720	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	9	9704,9710,9711,9712,9713,9716,9718,9719,9720	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	15	9704,9705,9706,9707,9708,9709,9710,9711,9712,9713,9716,9717,9718,9719,9720	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	6	9709,9710,9711,9712,9713,9720	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	9716	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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