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Locality Name:
Kuridala, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1575
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1490

mindat Locality ID: 4583
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4583.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kuridala, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Amethyst Deposit (Kuridala Amethyst Fields)
Bright Lights Mine
Eldorado Mine
Fairmile Prospect
Hampden Consols Mine
Hampden Mine
Juno Mine
Lady Fanny Mine
Silver Phantom Mine
Straight 8 Deposit (Straight Eight Mine)
Success Mine

Latitude: 21°12'56"S
Longitude: 140°18'42"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -21.215555555556,140.31166666667

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	Apatite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Cobaltite
Copper	Coronadite	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore	Digenite	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica
Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Spinel	Vivianite	Zircon

Acanthite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*
Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Cobaltite ()*
Copper ()*	Corkite ()*	Covellite ()*	Cryptomelane ()*	Cuprite ()*
Digenite ()*	Djurleite ()*	Erythrite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*
Glaucodot ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Plumbogummite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*
Spherocobaltite ()*	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: Ag Al As Au Ba C Ca Cl Co Cu F Fe H K Mn Mo O P Pb S Sb Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Alunite Apatite Arsenopyrite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Cobaltite
Copper Coronadite Corundum Covellite Diaspore Digenite Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite Mica
Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Spinel Vivianite Zircon

42 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1575	1490	1	11205	2793
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1575	1490	1	11206	3092
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1575	1490	1	11207	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1575	1490	2	11205,11207	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1575	1490	2	11206,11207	5516
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1575	1490	1	11207	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1575	1490	2	11206,11207	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1575	1490	2	11206,11207	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1575	1490	1	11205	1382
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	1575	1490	2	11206,11207	966
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1575	1490	1	11207	3846
Corkite ()*	Alunite	PbFe³⁺₃(SO₄)(PO₄)(OH)₆	1575	1490	1	11200	151
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1575	1490	1	11205	4165
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	1575	1490	1	11200	599
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1575	1490	1	11207	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1575	1490	1	11207	1027
Djurleite ()*	None	Cu₃₁S₁₆	1575	1490	1	11207	300
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	1575	1490	1	11207	814
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1575	1490	1	11206	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1575	1490	2	11200,11207	24243
Glaucodot ()*	Arsenopyrite	(Co_0.5Fe_0.5)AsS	1575	1490	1	11207	131
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1575	1490	2	11200,11207	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1575	1490	1	11199	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1575	1490	1	11207	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1575	1490	1	11200	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1575	1490	1	11207	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1575	1490	1	11200	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1575	1490	1	11200	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1575	1490	1	11207	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1575	1490	1	11206	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1575	1490	1	11200	17380
Plumbogummite ()*	Alunite	PbAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	1575	1490	1	11200	170
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	1575	1490	1	11205	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1575	1490	1	11205	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1575	1490	3	11200,11206,11207	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1575	1490	1	11200	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1575	1490	5	11197,11200,11205,11206,11207	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1575	1501	1	11205	5614
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1575	1490	1	11207	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1575	1490	1	11205	5186
Spherocobaltite ()*	None	Co(CO₃)	1575	1490	1	11207	52
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1575	1490	2	11206,11207	5251

4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Sample Source	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
EMG15_125-1	1505	1505		40Ar/39Ar	Ore emplacement age	biotite	Yes		191789	Ernest Henry Cu-Au Deposit (Ernest Henry Mine), Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia	Hypogene Ore at the Ernest Henry Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposit, Cloncurry District, NW Queensland	Foster et al. (2007)	10.2113/gsemg.16.3-4.125	EMG15_125	p. 127
EMG15_125-2	1537	1521		U-Pb	pre-mineralization alteration	titanite	Yes	Titanite	191789	Ernest Henry Cu-Au Deposit (Ernest Henry Mine), Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia	Hypogene Ore at the Ernest Henry Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposit, Cloncurry District, NW Queensland	Foster et al. (2007)	10.2113/gsemg.16.3-4.126	EMG15_125	error is +11/-8; p. 127
EMG15_125-3	1538	1490	1514±24	U-Pb	pre-mineralization alteration	titanite	Yes	Titanite	191789	Ernest Henry Cu-Au Deposit (Ernest Henry Mine), Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia	Hypogene Ore at the Ernest Henry Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposit, Cloncurry District, NW Queensland	Foster et al. (2007)	10.2113/gsemg.16.3-4.127	EMG15_125	p. 127
EMG15_125-4	1575	1501	1538±37	U-Pb		rutile	Yes	Rutile	191789	Ernest Henry Cu-Au Deposit (Ernest Henry Mine), Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia	Hypogene Ore at the Ernest Henry Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposit, Cloncurry District, NW Queensland	Foster et al. (2007)	10.2113/gsemg.16.3-4.128	EMG15_125	p. 127

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