Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Portland, Glenelg Shire, Victoria, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 14273
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14273.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Portland, Glenelg Shire, Victoria, Australia": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Bats Ridge Caves
Cape Sir William Grant
Grant Bay

Latitude: 38°22'40"S
Longitude: 141°35'12"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -38.377777777778,141.58666666667

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.

Analcime	Aragonite	Calcite	Chabazite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Feldspar	Natrolite	None
Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Smectite-vermiculite	Thomsonite

Albite ()*	Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chabazite-Na ()*	Copper ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Lime ()*	Montmorillonite ()*
Natrolite ()*	Quartz ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

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 C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Calcite Chabazite Clay Copper Corundum Feldspar Natrolite None
Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Smectite-vermiculite Thomsonite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	14130	8803
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	14130	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	14130	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	14130	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	14128,14130,14131	27770
Chabazite-Na ()*	Chabazite	(Na₃K)[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·11H₂O	1	14130	66
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	14130	3846
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	14130	5433
Lime ()*	Rocksalt	CaO	1	14128	11
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	14130	1508
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	14130	1236
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	14128	61156
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	1	14130	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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