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Locality Name:
Drake, Drake Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 48887
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-48887.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Drake, Drake Co., New South Wales, Australia": 27
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 27

Number of Child Localities: 27
Child Localities:
Adeline Mine
Beehive Trail Prospect
Bennett & Co Reef (Red Jacket North)
Boggy Gully
Curry Bros Reef (Curry Beef; Boon Workings; Nobles Creek East Prospect)
Deans Prospect
Green Snake Creek
Homestead Prospect (White Rock South)
Kellys Claim
Kellys Claim East
Kellys Claim West
Lady Hampden Pit (Lady Hampden Mine)
Lead Block Group (Lead Block; Lead Block South; Lead Block North)
Mascotte Mine (Mascotte Reef)
McKinnon & Co Reef
Mount Richmond Alluvials
Nobles Creek Mine (Nobels Creek Mine)
Plumbago Creek Mine
Plumbago Prospect
Pyres & Co Prospect (Teatree Prospect)
Red Jacket Reef (Kellys Silver Reef)
Rossiters Prospect (Plumbago Prospect South)
Silver King Mine 1 (Silver King)
Teatree Prospect West
Timbarra River
Upper Plumbago Creek
White Rock Creek Prospect

Latitude: 28°57'16"S
Longitude: 152°23'23"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -28.954444444444,152.38972222222

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	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Cubanite	Digenite
Jalpaite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Acanthite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*
Cubanite ()*	Digenite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Jalpaite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Matildite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pearceite ()*
Polybasite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Cubanite Digenite
Jalpaite Kaolinite Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

29 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	2	6548,6559	2793
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2	6537,6545	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	6550	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	6559	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	6550	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	6544,6545,6549,6550,6553	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	6550	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	8	6537,6541,6545,6548,6549,6550,6553,6559	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	6550,6551	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	3	6537,6548,6553	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	6550	802
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	6550	1027
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	7	6541,6545,6548,6549,6550,6553,6559	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	16	6537,6539,6540,6541,6542,6545,6547,6548,6549,6550,6553,6554,6557,6559,6561,6562	30554
Jalpaite ()*	Jalpaite	Ag₃CuS₂	1	6548	116
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	6548	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	6548,6549,6550	12537
Matildite ()*	None	AgBiS₂	2	6548,6559	252
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	13	6537,6541,6544,6545,6546,6548,6549,6550,6553,6555,6556,6559,6560	17380
Pearceite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(As,Sb)₂S₇]	3	6548,6550,6559	249
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	3	6548,6550,6559	716
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	2	6548,6559	733
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	15	6537,6539,6541,6545,6546,6547,6548,6549,6550,6553,6555,6556,6558,6559,6560	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	22	6537,6538,6539,6541,6543,6544,6545,6546,6547,6548,6549,6550,6551,6553,6554,6555,6556,6557,6558,6559,6560,6563	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	6550	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	10	6544,6547,6548,6550,6551,6553,6555,6556,6559,6560	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	8	6537,6541,6545,6548,6549,6550,6553,6559	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	4	6548,6550,6553,6559	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	6548,6559	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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