Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cairns Bay, Flinders Area, Victoria, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 14700
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14700.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cairns Bay, Flinders Area, Victoria, Australia": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 38°29'12"S
Longitude: 144°58'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -38.486666666667,144.96666666667

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	Atacamite	Baryte	Calcite	Chabazite	Clay	Connellite	Copper	Diaspore
Digenite	Erionite	Gmelinite	Gypsum	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Smectite-vermiculite	Thomsonite

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite-Na ()*	Connellite ()*	Copper ()*	Cowlesite ()*
Cuprite ()*	Digenite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Erionite-Na ()*	Gmelinite-Na ()*
Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Laumontite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Natrolite ()*
Paratacamite ()*	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 Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Sr Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Aragonite Atacamite Baryte Calcite Chabazite Clay Connellite Copper Diaspore
Digenite Erionite Gmelinite Gypsum Natrolite None Not in a structural group Smectite-vermiculite Thomsonite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1252
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	310
Chabazite-Na ()*	Chabazite	(Na₃K)[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·11H₂O	66
Connellite ()*	Connellite	Cu₃₆(SO₄)(OH)₆₂Cl₈·6H₂O	295
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3846
Cowlesite ()*	None	Ca(Al₂Si₃)O₁₀·5-6H₂O	84
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1027
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	9895
Erionite-Na ()*	Erionite	Na₁₀[Si₂₆Al₁₀O₇₂]·30H₂O	13
Gmelinite-Na ()*	Gmelinite	Na₄(Si₈Al₄)O₂₄·11H₂O	25
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1271
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1508
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1236
Paratacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃(Cu,Zn)Cl₂(OH)₆	158
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050371	Cairns Bay, Flinders Area, Victoria, Australia	https://rruff.info/R050371

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