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Locality Name:
Gilgunnia, Blaxland Co., New South Wales, Australia


mindat Locality ID: 296359
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-296359.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gilgunnia, Blaxland Co., New South Wales, Australia": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Cripples Reward
Eight Hour Claim
Hand In Hand Mine
Her Dream Mine
Hidden Treasure (Off Chance)
Keep It Dark
Last Chance Mine
Legal Right Claim
Mallee Bull Claim
May Day Prospect (The May Day Prospect)
May Day Tail Prospect
Moonlight Mine
No.1 East
Osmetti & Party
Prospecting Claim
Rileys Claim
Rising Sun Mine
Silver Ray Mine
Tarcombe Reef (The Great Tarcombe)
The Slanter (The Stanter)
Trilby
Welcome Shaft

Latitude: 32°24'55"S
Longitude: 146°3'39"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -32.415277777778,146.06083333333
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 As Au C Cu Fe H K Mg O Pb S Sb Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteArsenopyriteChalcopyriteClayCopperMalachiteMarcasiteMicaNickelineNone
Not in a structural groupPyriteQuartzRocksaltSphaleriteSpinelTalcTetrahedrite

19 IMA Minerals at location:
Arsenopyrite  (*)Boulangerite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Cuprite  (*)
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Jamesonite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Malachite  (*)
Marcasite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)Talc  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS144239052
Boulangerite  (*)NonePb5Sb4S1114423843
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)144234979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS234423,4428,443127198
Cuprite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu2O144232970
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS44422,4423,4428,443124243
Gold  (*)CopperAu184414,4415,4416,4417,4418,4419,4420,4421,4422,4423,4425,4426,4427,4428,4429,4431,4432,443330554
Jamesonite  (*)NonePb4FeSb6S1414423784
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O41441714899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)21442312537
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS2144235674
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)21442317380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2144414,4416,4417,4418,4419,4421,4422,4423,4425,4426,4428,4429,4430,443139462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S8144239056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2184414,4415,4416,4417,4418,4419,4420,4422,4423,4425,4426,4427,4428,4429,4430,4431,4432,443361156
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS34423,4428,443121482
Talc  (*)Clay TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)2144233337
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S13144231803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S13144235317


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