Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Avondale Mine, Lyndhurst, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 8519
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-8519.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Avondale Mine, Lyndhurst, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 30°12'55"S
Longitude: 138°32'12"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -30.215277777778,138.53666666667

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Descloizite	Fluorite	Minium	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz
Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Volborthite

Anglesite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Descloizite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrocerussite ()*	Laurionite ()*	Minium ()*
Phosgenite ()*	Phosphohedyphane ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Volborthite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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: C Ca Cl Cu F H Mo O P Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Cl Cu F H Mo O P Pb S Si V Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Descloizite Fluorite Minium None Not in a structural group Quartz
Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Volborthite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2734
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4979
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	378
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1689
Hydrocerussite ()*	None	Pb₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	201
Laurionite ()*	None	PbCl(OH)	49
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄	247
Phosgenite ()*	None	Pb₂(CO₃)Cl₂	142
Phosphohedyphane ()*	Apatite	Ca₂Pb₃(PO₄)₃Cl	71
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Volborthite ()*	Volborthite	Cu₃V₂O₇(OH)₂·2H₂O	155
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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