Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Little Plains Quarry (Lottah Road Quarry; Fieldwicks Quarry; Weldborough Pass Quarry), Blue Tier District, Break O'Day Municipality, Tasmania, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 8238
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-8238.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Little Plains Quarry (Lottah Road Quarry; Fieldwicks Quarry; Weldborough Pass Quarry), Blue Tier District, Break O'Day Municipality, Tasmania, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 41°13'"S
Longitude: 147°58'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -41.216666666667,147.96666666667

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.

Analcime	Calcite	Clay	Feldspar	Gismondine	Gmelinite	Natrolite	None	Smectite-vermiculite	Thomsonite

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 C Ca Fe H K Mg Na O Si

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Calcite Clay Feldspar Gismondine Gmelinite Natrolite None Smectite-vermiculite Thomsonite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Gismondine ()*	Gmelinite-Ca ()*	Gonnardite ()*
Natrolite ()*	Sanidine ()*	Saponite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Gismondine ()*	Gismondine	Ca₂(Si₄Al₄)O₁₆·8H₂O	128
Gmelinite-Ca ()*	Gmelinite	Ca₂(Si₈Al₄)O₂₄·11H₂O	20
Gonnardite ()*	Natrolite	(Na,Ca)₂(Si,Al)₅O₁₀·3H₂O	167
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1236
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	598
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	301
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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