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Corundum from
Branxholm, Dorset municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Corundum
Formula:Al2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Corundum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Branxholm, Dorset municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1002029
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1002029:8
GUID (UUID V4):ee47f9b9-5b6d-4992-bc98-46695bb8ac48
Nearest other occurrences of Corundum
5.5km (3.4 miles) ⓘDerby, Dorset municipality, Tasmania, Australia
12.0km (7.4 miles) ⓘWeld River, Moorina, Dorset municipality, Tasmania, Australia
13.9km (8.6 miles) ⓘFrome River, Moorina, Dorset municipality, Tasmania, Australia
18.1km (11.2 miles) ⓘPioneer tin field, Dorset municipality, Tasmania, Australia
22.3km (13.9 miles) ⓘBlue Tier tinfield, Blue Tier district, Break O'Day municipality, Tasmania, Australia
35.4km (22.0 miles) ⓘLisle goldfield, Scottsdale district, Dorset municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
Gemstone Minerals in Tasmania Department of State Growth Mineral Resources Tasmania Occurrences of Gemstone...Gemstone Minerals in Tasmania (8th edition 2nd printing) Compiled by R. S. Bottrill and W. L. Matthews...November 2019 Mineral Resources Tasmania PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 www.mrt.tas.gov.au ISBN 0...As a result the Crown in Right of the State of Tasmania and its employees, contractors and agents expressly...sources. These include: Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania by W. F. Petterd, 1910 (a revised edition was
Corporate Document (Series)
A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill and W. E. Baker...Baker Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources E>...rossi'oilittes PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone (03) 6233 8377 Fax (03) 6233 8338 Email info@mrt...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrttas.gov.au ©Copyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2006, Vol. 70(6), pp. 669–687 Contrasts in gem corundum characteristics, eastern Australian basaltic fields:...Deposits, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 2 Mineralogy, Australian...Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia 3 CSIRO Exploration and Mining, School of Physics...Physics, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia 4 Institute of Earth Science, Academica Sinica, Taipei...ACT 2601, Australia 6 McPherson Duncan & Associates, 18 Old Summerleas Road, Kinston, Tasmania 7050, Australia
Report (issue)
Introduction, p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland...Index, p. 60; : Subject Index, p. 86 : Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95...95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject Index...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...occurrences. A case in point may be cited from South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated Cenozoic basalts from Northeastern Tasmania S.J. Nasir a,⁎, J.L. Everard b, M.P. McClenaghan...Oman Mineral Resources Tasmania, P.O. Box 56, Rosny Park 7018, Tasmania, Australia a r t i c l e i n f...2010 Available online 27 March 2010 Keywords: Tasmania Basanite Spinel lherzolite Pyroxenite Geochemistry...undersaturated Cenozoic basaltic rocks in Northeastern Tasmania and comprise lavas, dykes, plugs and diatremes...important feature in the geological evolution of Tasmania (Sutherland, 1969). Xenoliths, cognate inclusions
Book
Printing Co Ltd, Tokyo. National Library of Australia Cataloguing in Publication data Perry, Nance Australian...colourbook series). ISBN 0 589 07012 6. I. Gems - Australia - Identification. I. Perry, Ron.joint author....wish to learn about the minerals and gems of Australia. PREFACE gemmologists, mineralogists in a specialised... It will travel throughout the backblocks of Australia and through the museums of our capital cities...Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. The study of gemstones has gained many adherents
Report (issue)
Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria, Australia. Sir ROBERT HADFIELD, Bart., lately President...Canada ‱ ‱ ‱ ‱ Australasia: Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand , il' 57 ,I CONTENTS CHAPTER...those of the Dutch Indies, Germany, China and Australia. Before the war, smelting was carried on in Germany...days, are the United I{:ingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Italy and Belgium. The...cassiterite, a s in Cornwall, New South Wales and Tasmania, and is sometimes worked for both tin and copper
Journal (issue)
3 19 Alabama Alaska Argentine Republic Asia Australia Austria 21 21 N 25 25 26 28 -. Banka 29...South Australia South Dakota Spain Swaziland ; 145 146 148 148 148 155 158 Sweden Tasmania 160 ... .186 CONTENTS V PAGE Washington Western Australia 187 Wyoming 190 191 203 209 General Bibliography...Geological Survey of Western Australia, Ann. Progr. Rep. Geol. Surv. Western Australia. Perth. Annual Report...Ann. Rep. School Mines Zeehan Zeehan, Zeehan, Tasmania. Ann. Rep. Seer. Mines Water Supply. Ann. Rep
Report (volume)
_________________________________________________________ Australia----------------------------------------------------~ew...those in Southeast Asia, Brazil, and Western Australia. As a result, many economically important placers...Africa 16. Warmbad area, Republic of South Africa AUSTRALIA 1. Herbe~rton-Cooktown area 2. Croydon area 3...Southwest Western Australia Northwes't Western Australia Northwest Tasmania 10. Northeast Tasmania ASIA 1-14...present. Elsewhere in the world, as in Cornwall and Tasmania, both lode and placer deposits occur within areas
Book
Read Amber Helen Fraquet Beryl John Sinkankas Corundum Richard W. Hughes Garnet John D. Rouse Jet Hellen...130 Arab Republic of Egypt 132 Argentina 132 Australia 133 Austria 135 Brazil 135 Bulgaria 155 Canada...Brazil; Ora M.H. Falabella, Brazil; Dr T. Lee, Australia; Sr W. Leite, Brazil; Dr M. Menzies, Canada; Mr...later said to be the generic term in Arabic for corundum. There appear to be two problems here. Yakut in...the modern topaz with corundum, although until fairly recently yellow corundum was often called 'oriental
Journal (issue)
393,758. CORUNDUM At the present time South Africa is the world's chief producer of corundum. The most...either as '' cry tal corundum '' or massive, known usually as '' bould r corundum.,, It occurs also as... and are of high abrasive efficiency. Boulder corundum, found in much smaller quantity than the crystal...consists of aggregates of crystals and grains of corundum in a matrix co11sisting principally of felspar...preparation of the corundum for the market, and one Company in particular, the Transvaal Grain Corundum Co., Lt
Journal (volume)
Arkansas—Corundum and Emery—Production in and Imports into the United States Progress in the Corundum and...Knight)—Philippine Islands— Copper Mining in Foreign Countries—Australia—World’s Copper Pro¬ duction, 1898-1902—Argent...Wales—New Zealand—Queensland—South Australia— Tasmania—Victoria—Western Australia—New Guinea—Progress in Gold...ide Practice in Foreign Countries —Western Australia—New Zealand—Wet Crushing and Direct Cyaniding—Treatment...Rico—Phosphate Mining in Foreign Coun¬ tries — Algeria — Australia — Canada—Dutch West Indies—Egypt— France—Polynesian
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia andℱ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 4. Industrial...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
Book (volume)
Places. 10 Lancaster Liverpool * 7 Dumfries Branxholm, 54 miles southwest of Berwick f . . Cambuslang...Diaspore IV. Native alumina As. — E- 1. Corundum mery 2. ChrySoberyl 3- Topaz Geylanite Table...most of a place among precious stones. S/>. Corundum. I. ^ The late tions of experiments of Chenevix...these different varieties of precious stones corundum. known first under the same species be- became...learned that its Indian Greville name was Corundum. It found' in Indostan, not far from the river
Book (volume)
I37-J 232 2r4 '33 229.5 135-5 Dumfries Branxholm, 54 miles southwest of Berwick f 9 10 Cambiislang...describing them VI. I. ; As Topaz Sommite I. 2. Corundum 2. 3. Native alumina 3. Shorlite 2. SA 4...Hill's Theophrastus, -xtft tui \i(iu», p. 100. CORUNDUM. A specimen of this was found roth; 437 analysed...upon the real varieties of he sapphire. Corundum of Corundum f. 2. Sf>. Gmelin and Kirwan Adaf...mineralogists learned that its ‱ Greville name was Corundum. also It is found in Indostan, not far frora
Journal (volume)
barometer Anglo-French Exploration Annalist, Wang. Tasmania Annealing of gold Antelope Gold Mine, Ltd.,...Aramavo Francke Mines, Ltd.. Arba Tin Mining Co.. Tasmania Ardmore Oil Co., South Dakota Are there jobs enough...iron-nail method Associated Gold Mines, Ltd., Western Australia, .. ,. ^ Cobalt properties Company report ,. ...! 776 Australian capital abroad 8J7 Tin mine, Tasmania 616 Austria coal mine fatality rate 876 St. Joachimsthal..., patent for coating aluminum !!!!!!!!! 306 Australia, Bendlgo, gold production !!!!!! ' . ' '
 
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