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Springwood Salt Lake, Tara Co., New South Wales, Australiai
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
33° 16' 0'' South , 141° 35' 59'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
-33.26667,141.60000
GRN:
S23E84
Type:
Lake
Köppen climate type:
BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate
Mindat Locality ID:
249154
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:249154:0
GUID (UUID V4):
0


Springwood Salt Lake is located west of the Silver City Highway, approximately 100 km north of Wentworth, NSW, Australia. It occupies a depression, about 10 km x 6 km in size, which appears to have once been a large lake but now consists of a number of small salinas. In mid 1981 crystals of mirabilite were collected from small depressions, the imprints left by cattle tracks, in two of these salinas, at the eastern end of the depression. Small roughly equi-dimensional and rarely perfect crystals, from 2 to 5 cm across, lined the bottoms of the depressions. In most of the depressions these were overlain by larger tabular (paper-thin and typically 12mm x 9mm) and prismatic (up to 40 mm long and 2 mm to 3 mm across) crystals. On exposure to weak sunlight the mirabilite readily dehydrated to powdery thenardite.

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3 valid minerals.

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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates
ⓘThénardite7.AD.25Na2SO4
ⓘMirabilite7.CD.10Na2SO4 · 10H2O
ⓘGypsum7.CD.40CaSO4 · 2H2O

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
Hⓘ GypsumCaSO4 · 2H2O
Hⓘ MirabiliteNa2SO4 · 10H2O
OOxygen
Oⓘ GypsumCaSO4 · 2H2O
Oⓘ MirabiliteNa2SO4 · 10H2O
Oⓘ ThénarditeNa2SO4
NaSodium
Naⓘ MirabiliteNa2SO4 · 10H2O
Naⓘ ThénarditeNa2SO4
SSulfur
Sⓘ GypsumCaSO4 · 2H2O
Sⓘ MirabiliteNa2SO4 · 10H2O
Sⓘ ThénarditeNa2SO4
CaCalcium
Caⓘ GypsumCaSO4 · 2H2O

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References

Sutton, P. (1982) Mirabilite from south-western N.S.W. The Australian Mineralogist, 37, 200.
Sutton, P. (2004) Minerals from evaporative basins in the Mallee District, Murray Basin, south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 10 (1). 13-28
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