Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Aranga Quarry (Stone's Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara District, Northland Region, New Zealand

mindat Locality ID: 15344
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-15344.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Aranga Quarry (Stone's Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara District, Northland Region, New Zealand": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 35°44'6"S
Longitude: 173°34'47"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -35.735,173.57972222222

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.

Allophane	Aragonite	Calcite	Chabazite	Copper	Corundum	Gismondine	None	Not in a structural group	Pseudobrookite
Pyroxene	Thomsonite

Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cavansite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*	Cowlesite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Gismondine ()*
Gobbinsite ()*	Hematite ()*	Okenite ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*	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 Mg Na O Si Ti V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Na O Si Ti V

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Aragonite Calcite Chabazite Copper Corundum Gismondine None Not in a structural group Pseudobrookite
Pyroxene Thomsonite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Cavansite ()*	None	Ca(V⁴⁺O)(Si₄O₁₀)·4H₂O	14
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	310
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3846
Cowlesite ()*	None	Ca(Al₂Si₃)O₁₀·5-6H₂O	84
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2970
Gismondine ()*	Gismondine	Ca₂(Si₄Al₄)O₁₆·8H₂O	128
Gobbinsite ()*	Gismondine	Na₅(Si₁₁Al₅)O₃₂·11H₂O	17
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	14640
Okenite ()*	None	Ca₁₀Si₁₈O₄₆·18H₂O	71
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	164
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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