Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Coober Pedy, Central North, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 4631
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4631.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Coober Pedy, Central North, South Australia, Australia": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Breakaways
Cairn Hill Mine
Donnas Rush
Eight Mile Field
Snaefell Prospect

Latitude: 29°4'40"S
Longitude: 134°47'1"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -29.077777777778,134.78361111111

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.

Alunite	Amorphous	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Feldspar	Gypsum	Kaolinite	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel

Albite ()*	Alunite ()*	Dickite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*
Natroalunite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

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 Au Ca Fe H K Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Fe H Mg Na O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Clay Copper Corundum Diaspore Feldspar Gypsum Kaolinite None
Pyrite Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Spinel

14 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)	0		8803
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	11746	966
Dickite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	0		651
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	0		7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	11744	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	0		6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0		14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	0		5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	11744,11747	14899
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	0		1508
Natroalunite ()*	Alunite	NaAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0		128
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2	11743,11745	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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