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Locality Name:
Deepwater, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 78
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-78.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Deepwater, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia": 43
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 43

Number of Child Localities: 43
Child Localities:
Allies Mine (Allies Molybdenite And Bismuth Mines; Allies Molybdenite; Allies And Manbundi Mine)
Allies Mo South (Allies Molbdenum South Mine)
Back Creek Deposit
Bargens Shaft
Barongarook Deposit
Blunderbuss Creek South
Blunderbuss Silver
Blunderbuss Silver East
Bow Creek Extended
Bow Creek Mine
Bow Creek Upper Reaches
Burns Mine
Carneys Hill (Mount Carney)
Cassidys Arsenic Deposit
Cassidys Deposit
Cassidys Mine
Cassidys Wolfram (Ding Dong; 10mile)
Central Deposit
Coronation Mine (Thompson's Claim; McGauran's Claim)
Crystal Deposit
Deepwater Greisen (Petticoat Alley Creek East)
Deepwater River
Deepwater Sugarloaf
Deepwater Sugarloaf East
Deepwater Sugarloaf West
Echo Grid Prospect
Edwards Deposit
Edwards South Deposit
Finns Prospect
Fitzsimmons Prospect
Hoppers Deposit
Hoppers Southeast Deposit
Marshall & Ficinus (Turners Claim)
Marshalls Deposit (Kiehne Claim; Bakers Claim)
McDonalds
McGaurans Deposit
Railway Prospect
Reid & Sherratts Shaft
Rock Abbey Molybdenite (Rock Abbey Molybdenite Deposit)
Spur Workings
Upper Bow Creek
Von Hartens Deposit
Watson Occurrence

Latitude: 29°27'33"S
Longitude: 151°58'9"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -29.459166666667,151.96916666667

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mo O Pb S Se Si Sn Zn Zr 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenicArsenopyriteCalciteChalcopyriteClayCopperFluoriteKaoliniteMicaMolybdenite
NonePyriteQuartzRocksaltRutileSphaleriteStibniteSulphurZircon

20 IMA Minerals at location:
Arsenopyrite  (*)Bismuth  (*)Bismuthinite  (*)Calcite  (*)Cassiterite  (*)
Chalcopyrite  (*)Ferrimolybdite  (*)Fluorite  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)
Kaolinite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Scorodite  (*)Selenium  (*)Silver  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Zircon  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS137360,7363,7364,7368,7371,7375,7377,7379,7380,7382,7383,7385,73869052
Bismuth  (*)ArsenicBi107347,7348,7350,7352,7355,7356,7367,7373,7374,73821966
Bismuthinite  (*)StibniteBi2S337347,7348,73561935
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)27347,734827770
Cassiterite  (*)RutileSnO2167351,7352,7357,7358,7359,7364,7367,7372,7375,7376,7377,7379,7380,7381,7384,73885171
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS21738327198
Ferrimolybdite  (*)NoneFe3+2(Mo6+O4)3·7H2O17347345
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF237356,7373,73749617
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS87353,7354,7356,7360,7368,7370,7371,738324243
Gold  (*)CopperAu1736830554
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)437356,7365,73885591
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS2157347,7348,7349,7355,7356,7363,7365,7368,7373,7379,7380,7382,7385,7387,73895800
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)237347,7348,735617380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS257347,7348,7356,7378,738339462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2317347,7348,7349,7350,7352,7353,7355,7356,7359,7360,7361,7362,7363,7364,7365,7366,7367,7368,7370,7373,7374,7375,7377,7378,7379,7380,7382,7386,7387,7388,738961156
Scorodite  (*)NoneFe3+(AsO4)·2H2O37364,7368,73771153
Selenium  (*)SulphurSe17356143
Silver  (*)CopperAg57360,7370,7371,7382,73835186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS37356,7383,738521482
Zircon  (*)ZirconZr(SiO4)173595251



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