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Opal from
Comet Vale, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Comet Vale, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1025760
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1025760:7
GUID (UUID V4):da104953-9ce0-4fd1-a7f0-6c59b51122f5
Localities for Opal in this Region
Blue Speck Creek, Comet Vale, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
2.4km (1.5 miles) ⓘBlue Speck Creek, Comet Vale, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
52.7km (32.8 miles) ⓘBlack Flag Road opalite area, Grant's Patch, Black Flag Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
55.2km (34.3 miles) ⓘGrants Patch opalite area, Grant's Patch, Black Flag Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
58.4km (36.3 miles) ⓘGlasson Gold Mine (BC Pit), Callion, Davyhurst Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
61.9km (38.5 miles) ⓘLady Bountiful Extended Gold Mine, Mount Pleasant, Black Flag Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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GEM STONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Included under this heading are precious, semi-precious, and ornamental...jewelry, lapidary work and collectors' items. Western Australia is not well endowed with precious gems but...Diamonds have been found in only one locality in Western Australia, that is in the basal conglomerate of the...associated with the emerald workings. 6. OPAL Precious opal has been worked only at Coolgardie, where...in a graphitic chlorite schist. Black and white opal of a beautiful fire was won in 1904 but the deposit
Report (edition)
maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response...formal inception of the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) in 1896. In this second joint publication
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Stocklmayer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black... MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Stocklmayer Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rick Rogerson REFERENCE The recommended reference...VC 2013, Gemstones of Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin
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OOVERNMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 TALC, PYROPHYLLITE AND MAGNESITE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA FRONTISPIECE:...Talc Asia Pacific GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 16 by P. B. Abeysinghe...R. Perry DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Pietro Guj Copy editor: J. F. Johnston The...Talc, pyrophyllite and magnesite in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Resources Bulletin 16. National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7309 6547 3. Abeysinghe, P
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coronet of agate and topaz, Bert Scheps, F.G.A.A. for opal and carnelian jewellery, Harry Pearce for the clock...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....Gemstones in Alphabetical Order Origin of Coiour - Opal 11 14 - 101 50 Tests for Identification 106...wish to learn about the minerals and gems of Australia. PREFACE gemmologists, mineralogists in a specialised
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revise) © 1976, 1985, 1992 Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty Limited © 1992 Reader’s Digest (New Zealand)...& Geophysics. Published by Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty Limited 26-32 Waterloo Street, Surry Hills...identification Prospecting for gold Gemstone areas of Australia The collector's gear Polishing and cutting Fossicking...are exceptions to these two categories— precious opal, turquoise and jade are regarded as true gem minerals...minerals are widely distributed over the surface of Australia, but some areas, because of different geological
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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...p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject...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
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ground, hopefuls flocked to it from all over Australia. Before the arrival of the SD technologY, no one...AUSTRALIAN GOLD GEM & TREASURE g TREASURE ENTERP OF AUSTRALIA Leading Specialists In Prospecting & Treasure...Credit cards accepted. TREASURE ENTERPRISES OF AUSTRALIA u It e n ' 30 Lenaworth street, Coope,. Plaln‱...compressor. ‱ Backed by 12 months warranty and Australia wide service outlets. Dometic Pty Ltd ABN 41...to 8.K.Minerals PO Box 8S4. Park Ridge, QLD, Australia 4125 Tel:(07) 3802 1186 Fax:(07) 3297 0619 Gold
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Greece 22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...Diamonds from [the Argyle mine,] Kimberley, Western Australia (by J. D. Grice & G. L. Boxer) 21:559-564...Secondary minerals from Ashburton Downs, Western Australia [Australia) (by E. H. Nickel & B. J. Gartrell)...Colorado (by J. E Taggart & E. E. Fooro) 11:37-38 AUSTRALIA On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide...unusual occurrence of bobierrite at Wodgina. Western Australia (by B. Mason & P. J. Dunn) 5:265 Famous mineral
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National Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 207 12278 4 Registered in Australia for transmission...transmission by post as a book PRINTED "ill we IN AUSTRALIA BY HALSTEAD PRESS, SYDNEY To DR W. R. BROWNE...edition of this book only rocks occurring in Australia were described, but in this edition a short chapter...that this brief survey of the igneous rocks of Australia may stimulate research into some of the minerals...Undersaturated Types 3. Types not described in Australia 18 The Andesite Association 1. High Alumina
Journal (issue)
....................... by W. E. W ilson 2 Australia G old in A u s tr a lia ........................gold localities not mentioned in G old-I. . . Australia, Colorado and Appalachia, for example. It seems...reviewing all of the major gold occurrences in Australia. The literature on Australian gold is enormous...detectors), P.O. Box 35, Stepney 5069, South Australia, Australia. The most important gold-hunter’s magazine...FAMOUS NUGGET MODEL AVAILABLE The biggest news in Australia in the last 109 years was the recent discovery
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1963, 1969, 1978, 1993 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Blainey, Geoffrey...Mines and mineral resources—Australia—History. 2. Mineral industries—Australia—History. I. Title. 622’.0994...gas on the North-West Shelf, the emergence of Australia as the world’s largest producer of diamonds, pic...the finding of the huge Olym- field in South Australia, the swift revival of gold downs of uranium...March 1993 Preface For more than a century Australia has been one of the world’s important mining countries
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37 : 7 pis., 2 maps (1 geol. col.). See SOUTH AUSTRALIA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Bulletin No. 1. 8. 1912. ...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. : The Mount Granger GoldSee SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 8. 1913. Report No. 2. text illust. Jack (ROBERT...3 maps (2 geol. col.), text illust. See SOUTH AUSTRALIA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Bulletin No 3. 8. 1914. of...south of the Musgrave Ranges, ;mcl Geology of the western jiort.ion of tM ^rc:vt Australian Jack (ROBERT... deposits of South Australia, pp. 136 : 5 ph., tert iUnst. See SOUTH AUSTRALIA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Bulletin
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Prisoner Progress at West Australi on West Australia California P.Walker (m.d.) F.,r "Bast Urn...Lydenburg Report Goch, New.. Gold Discoveries in West Australia, History of.. C.M.I Ian Gold Market, Free 139...Surveying (m.d.) 53 (m.d.) 189 Copper Leaching In Australia Mathewson & Cop> M< tiltai ‱ Pulverieed Coal in...Magnesite in the United States Magnesite in West Australia Magnetic Surveys Magnetism, Terrestrial Magnetite...Mines Prospecting, Future of Prospecting in West Australia Prospectusless Companies Pulverized Coal Pumping
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gabbro-limestone contact zone of Camas Mor, Muck, Inverness-shire. Bull. Comm. geol. Finlande, no. 140, p. 101. -...and amblygonite in pneumatolytic veins, Caceres, western Spain (Weibel, 1956). 3. Cassiterite, granite pegmatite...cassiterite, and associated minerals from Caceres, western Spain. Amer. Min., vol. 41, p. 41. Corundum ...Edwards (1938) has reported titanhaematite from Western Australia and considers that lamellae of ilmenite separate...limonite nodules, Inglehope, S. W. Division, Western Australia (Simpson, 1937). On heating in air, haematite
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for the year ending 30th June, 1907 > See AUSTRALIA. PARLIAMENT. Annual Report on British New Guinea... 4. (JAMES) Geology and Mineral Resources of western Southland, pp. iv, 88 : 8 pis., 2 maps geol. col...species of the family Scopelarchidse, from the western coast of Mexico ; and some notes on the visceral...4. Picarise. E.) Deepsea Fishes from off the western coast of North and Central America. With keys to...53 : text illust. A practical revision of the western Atlantic species of With the genus Citharichthys
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Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Dr K. J. Caley Evolutionary Biologist, School...Inc. & Sicklebill Safaris, Kuranda, Queensland, Australia. 5 Dr J. S. Matthew Senior Ecologist, HLA-Envirosciences...HLA-Envirosciences Pty Limited, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Dr R. A. Noske Senior Lecturer, School of Science...Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. C. Robson Norwich, Norfolk, England. I. Rowley...Division of Wildlife & Ecology; Guildford, Western Australia, Australia. Dr E. Russell Formerly Honorary Research
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ehern. Soc. 77, 1094 (1900); Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia 1900, 69; Z. Kryst. 36, 90 (1902). Von einer...10,83 25,54 0,38 100,09 44. Von Kishorn, Ross-shire, Schottland; anal. E. Macadam, Min. Soc. Lond. 8...Amphibolit von Comet Vale, Lake Ooongardie, WestAustralien; anal. Edw. S. Simpson, j. R. Soc. Western Australia...00 MnO auf Mn verrechnet, die ĂŒbrigen Stoffe als Opal und Carbonate vorhanden, vernachlĂ€ssigt, ergibt...Simpson u. C. G. Gibson, Bulletin of the Western Australia Geological Survey Nr. 42 (1912). 54* 1) 2)
 
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