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:
Penguin Mine (Penguin Silver Mine), Penguin, Central Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 130634
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130634.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Penguin Mine (Penguin Silver Mine), Penguin, Central Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 41°6'59"S
Longitude: 146°5'18"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -41.116388888889,146.08833333333

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.

Atacamite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Connellite	Epidote	Feldspar	Linarite	None	Pyrite
Rocksalt	Vivianite

Albite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Connellite ()*	Cumengeite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Erythrite ()*	Galena ()*	Köttigite ()*
Laurionite ()*	Linarite ()*	Paratacamite ()*	Pyrite ()*

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 Ca Cl Co Cu Fe H Mg Na O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As C Ca Cl Co Cu Fe H Mg Na O Pb S Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Atacamite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Connellite Epidote Feldspar Linarite None Pyrite
Rocksalt Vivianite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Connellite ()*	Connellite	Cu₃₆(SO₄)(OH)₆₂Cl₈·6H₂O	295
Cumengeite ()*	None	Pb₂₁Cu₂₀Cl₄₂(OH)₄₀·6H₂O	43
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8173
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	814
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Köttigite ()*	Vivianite	Zn₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	60
Laurionite ()*	None	PbCl(OH)	49
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	987
Paratacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃(Cu,Zn)Cl₂(OH)₆	158
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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