Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Barcoo Shire, Queensland, Australia

mindat Locality ID: 28502
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-28502.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Barcoo Shire, Queensland, Australia": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Barcoo River
Cooper Creek (Cooper's Creek)
Jundah Opal Field
Windorah

Latitude: 24°39'38"S
Longitude: 143°27'9"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -24.660555555556,143.4525

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.

Amorphous	Copper	Coronadite	Corundum	Cubanite	Garnet	Iron	Nickeline	None	Palmierite
Perovskite	Pyroxene	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Wadsleyite

Akimotoite ()*	Bridgmanite ()*	Chromite ()*	Clinoenstatite ()*	Copper ()*
Diopside ()*	Enstatite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*	Isocubanite ()*
Lingunite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Majorite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Ringwoodite ()*	Taenite ()*	Tetrataenite ()*	Troilite ()*	Tuite ()*
Wadsleyite ()*	Wüstite ()*

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 Cr Cu Fe H Mg Na Ni O P S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Copper Coronadite Corundum Cubanite Garnet Iron Nickeline None Palmierite
Perovskite Pyroxene Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Wadsleyite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Akimotoite ()*	Corundum	MgSiO₃	1	11087	10
Bridgmanite ()*	Perovskite	MgSiO₃	1	11087	1
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	11087	3902
Clinoenstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	11087	94
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	11087	3846
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	11087	4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	11087	944
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	11087	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	11087	1089
Isocubanite ()*	Sphalerite Cubanite	CuFe₂S₃	1	11087	191
Lingunite ()*	Coronadite	NaAlSi₃O₈	1	11087	9
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	11087	14899
Majorite ()*	Garnet	Mg₃(MgSi)(SiO₄)₃	1	11087	24
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	3	11081,11083,11084	2994
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	11087	9056
Ringwoodite ()*	Spinel	SiMg₂O₄	1	11087	25
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	11087	703
Tetrataenite ()*	None	FeNi	1	11087	116
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	11087	1044
Tuite ()*	Palmierite	Ca₃(PO₄)₂	1	11087	7
Wadsleyite ()*	Wadsleyite	Mg₂SiO₄	1	11087	13
Wüstite ()*	Rocksalt	FeO	1	11087	74

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R070079	Tenham Meteorite, Tenham Station, Windorah, Barcoo Shire, Queensland, Australia	https://rruff.info/R070079

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