Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Barraba, Darling Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 68
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-68.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Barraba, Darling Co., New South Wales, Australia": 50
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 50

Number of Child Localities: 50
Child Localities:
Addisons Reef (The Addison)
Bakers Clay Deposit
Barney Bernato Mine
Barraba Brickpit
Black Mountain Reef
Black Mountain Reef North
Black Prince Reef
Chrome Dome Mine
Doherty Mine (Hungerford And Spencer's Mine; Hungerford And Spencer's Deposit)
Dyson's Reef (Aberdeen Gully; Golden Gully)
Elijah Hill Clay Pit
Gardiners Diatomite Deposit
Gardiners Mine
Golden Jubilee Mine (Garryowen Reef)
Goldmans Deposit
Ironbark Creek
Ironbark Creek Copper Mine (Ironbarks Lode; I.B.C. Copper Mine)
Ironbark Creek Serpentine Quarry
Italian Gully (Specimen Gully)
Junior Mine (Spencers Manganese Mine)
Kellys Reef (Woods Reef; Woodsreef; Woods Reef Extended)
King Solomon Mine (King Solomon Gold Mine)
Lady Mary Gold Mine
Lawsons Clay Pit
Manilla River Alluvials
McGuinness Clay Deposit
Nandewar Range Diatomite Deposit
O'Neills Deposit
O'Neills Diatomite Mine
Opossum Gully
Paling Yard Alluvial Gold
Paling Yard Copper Prospect
Paling Yard Diggings
Pioneer Reef
Readings Reef
Readings Reef South
Shamrock Reef (Muddy Flat)
Spring Creek Mine
Steins Magnesite Mine
Table Top Kaolin Deposit
Teetree Creek Alluvial Gold
The Baffler Mine
Unamed Deposit
Whites Mine
Wilpena Copper Mine (The Wilpena; Nangarah Creek Mine; Woods Reef)
Woodsreef Magnesite Deposit
Woodsreef Mine (Wood's Reef Mine; Woodsreef Asbestos Mine; Wood'sreef Asbestos Deposit)
Young Garryowen Reef
Zone 1 Prospect
Zone 2 Prospect

Latitude: 30°23'14"S
Longitude: 150°41'35"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.387222222222,150.69305555556

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.

Allophane	Amorphous	Amphibole	Arsenopyrite	Brucite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum
Cubanite	Digenite	Feldspar	Garnet	Hydrotalcite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Neptunite
Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Prehnite	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Ramsdellite	Rutile
Serpentine	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc	Tetrahedrite	Titanite	Vesuvianite	Wurtzite

Albite ()*	Anthophyllite ()*	Antigorite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*
Bornite ()*	Brucite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Coalingite ()*	Copper ()*	Cubanite ()*
Digenite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Enstatite ()*	Forsterite ()*
Gold ()*	Grossular ()*	Hematite ()*	Huntite ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Lizardite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Neptunite ()*	Nsutite ()*
Opal ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyroaurite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*	Talc ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*

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 Cr Cu F Fe H K Li Mg Mn Na O S Sb Si Ti Zn

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amorphous Amphibole Arsenopyrite Brucite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum
Cubanite Digenite Feldspar Garnet Hydrotalcite Kaolinite Malachite Marcasite Mica Neptunite
Nickeline None Not in a structural group Olivine Prehnite Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Ramsdellite Rutile
Serpentine Sphalerite Spinel Talc Tetrahedrite Titanite Vesuvianite Wurtzite

49 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)	1	6407	8803
Anthophyllite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	6407	718
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	6407	708
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	7	6361,6365,6366,6382,6394,6395,6397	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	3	6377,6398,6405	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	6377	5516
Brucite ()*	Brucite	Mg(OH)₂	1	6407	462
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	15	6365,6366,6369,6374,6377,6379,6383,6390,6394,6395,6396,6397,6398,6405,6407	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	6377,6398,6405	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	5	6368,6373,6403,6404,6407	3902
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	6398	3531
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	3	6407,6409,6410	951
Coalingite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Mg₁₀Fe³⁺₂(CO₃)(OH)₂₄·2H₂O	1	6407	27
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	6377	3846
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	6377	802
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	6377	1027
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	6407	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	6407	9895
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	6407	944
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	6407	1188
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	24	6361,6363,6365,6366,6367,6370,6374,6376,6377,6379,6381,6382,6383,6385,6390,6391,6394,6395,6396,6397,6401,6402,6403,6408	30554
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	6407	1544
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	4	6377,6398,6405,6407	14640
Huntite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaMg₃(CO₃)₄	1	6407	69
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	6407	341
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	6407	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	6	6362,6369,6371,6384,6386,6400	5591
Lizardite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	6407	359
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	3	6399,6406,6407	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	4	6377,6398,6405,6407	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4	6377,6392,6398,6405	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	6377	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	6377,6407	17380
Neptunite ()*	Neptunite	KNa₂LiFe²⁺₂Ti₂Si₈O₂₄	1	6407	49
Nsutite ()*	Ramsdellite	Mn²⁺_xMn⁴⁺_1-xO_2-2x(OH)_2x	0		121
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	6407	2994
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	6369	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	19	6361,6363,6365,6366,6370,6374,6377,6379,6381,6382,6383,6390,6394,6395,6397,6398,6402,6405,6407	39462
Pyroaurite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Mg₆Fe³⁺₂(CO₃)(OH)₁₆·4H₂O	1	6407	89
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	2	6369,6380	3106
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	6377	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	28	6361,6363,6365,6366,6367,6369,6370,6374,6375,6377,6379,6380,6381,6382,6383,6388,6390,6392,6393,6394,6395,6396,6397,6398,6402,6405,6407,6408	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	6377,6398,6405	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	6407	1934
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	6407	3337
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	6377	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	6377	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	6407	2562
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	0		1395

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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