Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Murray Riverlands, Murray Basin, South Australia, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 252124
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-252124.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Murray Riverlands, Murray Basin, South Australia, Australia": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Barmera
Lake Alexandrina
Loxton
Meningie
Morgan
Murray Bridge
Renmark
Waikerie

Latitude: 34°35'53"S
Longitude: 139°56'27"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -34.598055555556,139.94083333333

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.

Alunite	Coronadite	Epsomite	Gypsum	Halotrichite	Hexahydrite	Metavoltine	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Rocksalt	Tamarugite

Alunogen ()*	Epsomite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Halotrichite ()*
Hexahydrite ()*	Metavoltine ()*	Natrojarosite ()*	Pickeringite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Redingtonite ()*	Schwertmannite ()*	Sideronatrite ()*	Tamarugite ()*

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 Ca Cl Cr Fe H K Mg Na O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Coronadite Epsomite Gypsum Halotrichite Hexahydrite Metavoltine None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Rocksalt Tamarugite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunogen ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂(SO₄)₃(H₂O)₁₂·5H₂O	2	12467,12476	272
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	12467	484
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	5	12470,12471,12474,12476,12480	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	12473	1398
Halotrichite ()*	Halotrichite	Fe²⁺Al₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	1	12467	409
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	2	12467,12476	251
Metavoltine ()*	Metavoltine	K₂Na₆Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₆O₂(SO₄)₁₂·18H₂O	1	12476	78
Natrojarosite ()*	Alunite	NaFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	2	12466,12476	254
Pickeringite ()*	Halotrichite	MgAl₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	1	12467	265
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	12467,12476	39462
Redingtonite ()*	Halotrichite	Fe²⁺Cr₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	1	12467	2
Schwertmannite ()*	Coronadite	Fe³⁺₁₆O₁₆(OH)_9.6(SO₄)_3.2·10H₂O	1	12467	37
Sideronatrite ()*	None	Na₂Fe³⁺(SO₄)₂(OH)·3H₂O	3	12466,12467,12478	73
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	3	12466,12467,12478	87

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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