Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Ripon Hills District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2770
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1306

mindat Locality ID: 248183
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-248183.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ripon Hills District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Ant Hill Mine
Cookes Creek-Big Hill
Coondamar (Mount Hay; Mount Hays)
Eastern Creek Fluorite
Eastern Creek Gold Area
Meentheena Fluorite Deposit
Ripon Hills Manganese Prospects
Sandy Creek
Sunday Hill (Quartz Circle)
Sunday Hill Manganese Prospect
Twenty One Ounce Gully

Latitude: 21°39'24"S
Longitude: 120°25'57"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -21.656666666667,120.4325

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.

Acanthite	Allophane	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Atacamite	Baryte	Bixbyite	Braunite	Brochantite
Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Coronadite	Corundum	Fluorite	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite
Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Azurite ()*
Baryte ()*	Bixbyite ()*	Braunite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*
Cryptomelane ()*	Cuprite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Lithiophorite ()*
Malachite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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: Ag Al As Au Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Li Mn O P Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Atacamite Baryte Bixbyite Braunite Brochantite
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Coronadite Corundum Fluorite Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite
Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

36 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S			1	16169	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)			1	16168	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			1	16169	9052
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	2770	2770	1	16166	544
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			1	16154	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	16155	11547
Bixbyite ()*	Bixbyite	Mn³⁺₂O₃	1328	1306	1	16167	104
Braunite ()*	Braunite	Mn²⁺Mn³⁺₆O₈(SiO₄)	1328	1306	1	16167	483
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	2770	2770	1	16166	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2770	2770	1	16166	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)			4	16153,16154,16168,16169	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			1	16169	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			2	16154,16169	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O			1	16154	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu			1	16169	3846
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	1328	1306	1	16167	599
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O			1	16154	2970
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2770	2770	4	16153,16155,16166,16168	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2770	2770	5	16154,16155,16166,16168,16169	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2770	2770	11	16153,16157,16158,16159,16160,16161,16162,16163,16164,16165,16174	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			1	16169	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2770	1306	2	16158,16167	14640
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆			1	16154	1066
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1328	1306	1	16167	5591
Lithiophorite ()*	None	(Al,Li)(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂(OH)₂	1328	1306	1	16167	210
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2770	2770	3	16154,16166,16169	12537
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl			1	16153	1107
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2770	2770	3	16154,16166,16169	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2770	2770	3	16154,16165,16169	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	2770	1306	2	16152,16167	3106
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl			1	16153	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2770	2770	7	16153,16154,16157,16158,16165,16166,16169	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)			1	16153	4894
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)			1	16154	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			3	16154,16168,16169	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			1	16169	5317

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Giersdorf_00000215	Model derived primarily from studies conducted in the Mount Tom Price mine but with supplemental information acquired from the Channar and Mount Whaleback
Giersdorf_00000217	Model derived primarily from studies conducted in the Mount Tom Price mine but with supplemental information acquired from the Channar and Mount Whaleback

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age from other Locality	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
Giersdorf_00000215	2770	2770	2770		Yes		17597	Mount Tom Price Mine, Tom Price, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Mount Tom Price Mine	Taylor et. al (2001)	0361-0128/01/3161/837-37	EG96_837	Fortescue Group begins with early clastic sedimentation and mafic volcanism
Giersdorf_00000217	2690	2630	2690-2630		Yes		17597	Mount Tom Price Mine, Tom Price, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Mount Tom Price Mine	Taylor et. al (2001)	0361-0128/01/3161/837-37	EG96_837	Uppermost formation in the Fortescue Group
Scott-AJES64_69-0001	1328	1306	1317±11	207Pb-206Pb		Mn	274269	Ripon Hills Manganese Prospects, Ripon Hills District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Ripon Hills	Jones (2017)	10.1080/08120099.2017.1272492	AJES64_63	tuffaceous unit near the base of the Manganese Group

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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