Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Lake Alexandrina, Murray Riverlands, Murray Basin, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 258400
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-258400.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lake Alexandrina, Murray Riverlands, Murray Basin, South Australia, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Coronadite	Epsomite	Halotrichite	Hexahydrite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Tamarugite

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 Cr Fe H Mg Na O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Cr Fe H Mg Na O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Coronadite Epsomite Halotrichite Hexahydrite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Tamarugite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Alunogen ()*	Epsomite ()*	Halotrichite ()*	Hexahydrite ()*	Pickeringite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Redingtonite ()*	Schwertmannite ()*	Sideronatrite ()*	Tamarugite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Alunogen ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂(SO₄)₃(H₂O)₁₂·5H₂O	272
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	484
Halotrichite ()*	Halotrichite	Fe²⁺Al₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	409
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	251
Pickeringite ()*	Halotrichite	MgAl₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	265
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Redingtonite ()*	Halotrichite	Fe²⁺Cr₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	2
Schwertmannite ()*	Coronadite	Fe³⁺₁₆O₁₆(OH)_9.6(SO₄)_3.2·10H₂O	37
Sideronatrite ()*	None	Na₂Fe³⁺(SO₄)₂(OH)·3H₂O	73
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	87

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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