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:
Pottinger Co., New South Wales, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 133701
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-133701.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pottinger Co., New South Wales, Australia": 21
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Baan Baa
Boggabri
Coonabarabran District
Garrawilla Station
Gunnedah
Mullaley
Tambar Springs

Latitude: 31°'49"S
Longitude: 149°54'20"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -31.013611111111,149.90555555556

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.

Amorphous	Analcime	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group
Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Stilbite

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Epidote ()*	Laumontite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Mesolite ()*	Microcline ()*	Natrolite ()*	Opal ()*	Prehnite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sanidine ()*	Saponite ()*	Siderite ()*
Stellerite ()*	Todorokite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Fe H K Mg Mn Na O S Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Analcime Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar Natrolite None Not in a structural group
Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Stilbite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	2	8962,8963	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	8962,8963,8970,8973	27770
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	8965	8173
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	2	8962,8973	1271
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	8965	14899
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	1	8962	425
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	8971	4924
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	3	8962,8963,8971	1236
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2	8959,8971	2994
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	8962,8963,8971	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	8963,8971	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	8958,8959,8962,8963,8965,8972,8975	61156
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	8971	598
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	8962	301
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	8959	6417
Stellerite ()*	Stilbite	Ca₄(Si₂₈Al₈)O₇₂·28H₂O	6	8962,8963,8972,8973,8974,8975	189
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	1	8973	433

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060465	Garrawilla Station, Pottinger Co., New South Wales, Australia	https://rruff.info/R060465

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