Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Red Rock, Drake District, Buller Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 48916
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-48916.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Red Rock, Drake District, Buller Co., New South Wales, Australia": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Cliff Workings
Deadman
K Tunnel
Magazine
Main Shaft

Latitude: 28°50'13"S
Longitude: 152°19'10"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -28.836944444444,152.31944444444

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Malachite	None	Polybasite	Pyrite	Rocksalt
Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Titanite

Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Malachite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Pearceite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Titanite ()*

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 C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Na O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al C Ca H Mg Na O Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Malachite None Polybasite Pyrite Rocksalt
Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Titanite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0		27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	4690	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	4688	4165
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	4688,4691,4692	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	4688	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	4688	12537
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	0		1508
Pearceite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(As,Sb)₂S₇]	2	4691,4692	249
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	2	4691,4692	733
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	4688,4691,4692	39462
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	0		5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	4688,4689,4691,4692	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	4691,4692	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	0		4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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