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Locality Name:
Captain's Flat Mines, Captain's Flat, Lake George, Bullongong, Murray Co., New South Wales, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 444
Youngest recorded age at locality: 419

mindat Locality ID: 9592
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-9592.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Captain's Flat Mines, Captain's Flat, Lake George, Bullongong, Murray Co., New South Wales, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 35°35'29"S
Longitude: 149°26'31"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -35.591388888889,149.44194444444

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.

Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Mica	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Stannite	Tetrahedrite

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 C Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si Sn Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As C Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si Sn Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Mica Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Stannite Tetrahedrite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stannite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	444	419	9052
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	444	419	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	444	419	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	444	419	24243
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	444	419	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	444	419	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	444	419	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	444	419	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	444	419	21482
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄	444	419	668
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	444	419	5317

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	vms-00008	444	419	Silurian			high								9592	Captain's Flat Mines, Captain's Flat, Lake George, Bullongong, Murray Co., New South Wales, Australia	Captains Flat	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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