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Albite from
George Fisher Mine, Hilton district, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view George Fisher Mine, Hilton district, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1446234
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1446234:0
GUID (UUID V4):98317fed-9dfa-4fab-8ce2-3582e40fbc41
Localities for Albite in this Region
George Fisher South, George Fisher Mine, Hilton district, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Handlebar Hill Open Cut, Hilton district, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
0.4km (0.2 miles) George Fisher South, George Fisher Mine, Hilton district, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
12.1km (7.5 miles) Slaughteryard Creek, May Downs Station, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
14.2km (8.8 miles) May Downs Station, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
15.2km (9.5 miles) Skal Mine (Skal uranium deposit), City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
17.9km (11.1 miles) Bikini Mine (Bikini deposit; Bikini Uranium prospect; Bikini prospect), City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
23.5km (14.6 miles) Valhalla uranium deposit (Valahalla Mine), City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
24.2km (15.0 miles) Big Beryl Mine, Mica Creek, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
26.5km (16.5 miles) Beryl King pegmatite, Mica Creek, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
26.9km (16.7 miles) Hexagon Mine, Mica Creek, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
©2006 Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. Economic Geology, v. 101, pp. 1547–1567 A Geochemical Process...Process Model for the Mount Isa Copper Orebodies A. R. WILDE,†,* Co-Operative Research Centre in Predictive...School of Geosciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 6102, Australia P. A. JONES, School of Earth... James Cooke University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia K. GESSNER,** CSIRO Exploration and...and Mining, Kensington, Western Australia 6102, Australia L. AILLÈRES, M. J. GREGORY, AND R. J. DUNCAN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eastern Creek Volcanics, Mount Isa, Australia: evidence from laser ablation ICP-MS of iron-titanium oxides...series of copper-rich tholeiitic basalts which occur adjacent to the giant sediment-hosted Mount Isa copper...copper deposit in Queensland, Australia. The volcanic rocks are often cited as the source of metals for the...analyses of iron–titanium oxides from the basalts provide evidence for the local mobilisation of copper...a pre-concentration of copper before the main mineralisation event at Mount Isa. Geochemical modelling
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Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. Economic Geology, v. 100, pp. 537–546 Uranium Deposits of the Mount...Mount Isa Region and Their Relationship to Deformation, Metamorphism, and Copper Deposition MELISSA J.... pmd*CRC, School of Geosciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3800 AND PETER A...pmd*CRC, School of Earth Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia 4811 Abstract...Abstract The Mount Isa region contains over 20 uranium deposits, few of which contain economic concentrations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
systematics of the Mount Isa copper orebody and the Eastern Creek Volcanics, Queensland, Australia: implications...syn-tectonic breccia-hosted Mount Isa Cu deposit in northwest Queensland is the largest sedimenthosted...in Australia. Whole-rock samples of chalcopyrite-rich Cu ore form an isochron with a Re–Os age of 1,372±41...than 100 Ma younger than the previously accepted age of Cu ore formation, an Ar–Ar mineral age for biotite...discrepancy cannot be unequivocally resolved due to a lack of other absolute geochronological constraints for Cu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
©2006 Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. Economic Geology, v. 101, pp. 1117–1157 Australian Zn-Pb-Ag...Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia BARNEY STEVENS, Geological Survey of New South... Broken Hill, NSW 2880, Australia PETER N. SOUTHGATE, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT...ACT 2601, Australia PETER MUHLING, CSA Australia Pty. Ltd., Level 1, 47 Burswood Road, Burswood, Western...Western Australia, 6100, Australia AND LESLEY WYBORN Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT
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This article was downloaded by: [University of Cambridge] On: 20 November 2014, At: 05:39 Publisher:...Journal of Earth Sciences: An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication...tandfonline.com/loi/taje20 Synthesis of the proterozoic evolution of the Mt Isa Inlier a a a b c P. G. Betts...School of Geosciences , Australian Crustal Research Centre, Monash University , Vic., 3800, Australia b ...Research School of Earth Sciences , Australian National University , ACT, 0200, Australia c Geoscience
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article Geology and Mineralogy of Uranium Deposits from Mount Isa, Australia: Implications for Albitite Uranium...Aaron Torpy 2 1 2 Paladin Energy, Perth 6008, Australia; E-Mails: aotto@aurora-energy.ca (A.O.); john...Process Science and Engineering, Melbourne 3168, Australia; E-Mails: colin.macrae@csiro.au (C.M.); mark.pownceby@csiro...uranium deposits of the Mount Isa region of Queensland, Australia. Early albitisation of interbedded metabasalt...early sodic alteration paragenetic stage includes albite, riebeckite, aegirine, apatite, zircon and magnetite
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©2010 Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. Economic Geology, v. 105, pp. 593–625 Sediment-Hosted Lead-Zinc...5Centre Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh...M006, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway,Crawley,WA 6009, Australia Abstract Sediment-hosted...transitional into one another. The second subtype of sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits is the Mississippi...redox state of sulfur is one of the major controls on the extraction, transport, and deposition of Pb and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (2002) 49, 623–660 Mineral systems of Australia: an overview of resources...2 Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. CSIRO Division of Exploration and...WA 6102, Australia. Australia produces more than 22 mineral commodities from a wide variety of deposit...deposit types, but >90% of the value of mine production is obtained from just 10 commodities. Both production...by a few major deposit classes and a small number of world-class deposits. Most major deposits lie in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
www.elsevier.com/locate/precamres Review A review of Australia’s Proterozoic mineral systems and genetic...Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia Centre for Exploration...Technology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia a r t i c l e...resources, some of which are amongst the largest in the world with about 50% of the value of Australian mineral...equivalent (ca. 2400 Ma) of the Transvaal Group BIF in South Africa. The origin of BIF and of granular iron-formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shale-hosted Zn–Pb deposit, Central Iran: an example of vent-proximal SEDEX mineralization Abdorrahman Rajabi...crosscutting relationships, mineralogy, and texture of sulfide mineralization, four different facies can...associated with sulfides of the massive ore. Homogenization temperatures are in the range of 170–226 °C, and salinity...around 9 wt% NaCl eq. The size distribution of pyrite framboids of the bedded ore facies suggests anoxic to...suboxic event for the host basin. δ34S(V-CDT) values of pyrite, sphalerite, and galena range from +10.9 to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COLORADO TOPAZ Topaz, Al Si0 (F,OH) is one of Colorado's better known gem minerals. Though Col­ orado...have been found, and faceted stones in the hundreds of carats have been cut. 2 4 2 PETER J. MODRESKI...ed discovery of Colorado topaz was made about 1880 by a Mr. Thiebald,* "a prospector of Colorado Springs...having been found "in the disintegrated granite on one of the steep slopes about 4 miles from Manitou." This...billion years old, is composed of several large intrusive centers plus a number of smaller, latestage, sodic
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN AND PAPUA NEW GUINEAN MINERAL DEPOSITS Monograph 22 i Cover photograph: Aerial...Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is approximately...in the background. Courtesy of Great Central Mines Limited. ii GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN AND PAPUA NEW GUINEAN...INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 iii...iii © The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1998 The Institute is not responsible as a
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ancient atmosphere and hydrosphere? The composition of seawater in the Palaeoproterozoic D. A. Banks1, J...Beukes 2 and K. L. von Bezing4 School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK (D.Banks@earth...Banks@earth.leeds.ac.uk) Department of Geology, RAU, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa 3GeoForschungsZentrum...1179/037174503225001820 1 2 The determination of the composition of the oceans in the Archaean and Proterozoic...evolution of early life. Locating examples of early seawater is non-trivial because the existence of fluid
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©2016 Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. Economic Geology, v. 111, pp. 151–178 The Glacier Creek Cu-Zn...1Department 2ARC of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada Centre of Excellence...(CODES), University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 3GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum...or intraarc, rift-related bimodal volcanic rocks of the allochthonous Alexander terrane, known as the...Creek deposit, located ~80 km southeast of Windy Craggy, consists of four tabular massive sulfide lenses
Report (issue)
lithographie.org Licensed edition in the English language of extralapis No. 13: Topas Das prachtvolle Mineral...Mineral, der lebhafte Edelstein with the permission of Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany German Edition...in the United States of America Photo Credits Cover: Topaz, 3.5 cm tall Capao Mine, Ouro Preto, Minas...weighs 3.63 carats. A matched pair of cushion cut stones (weighing a total of 2.52 carats) from Katlang, Pakistan...upper wings, with a matched pair of pink Russian topazes, weighing a total of 3.03 carats on the lower wings
Book
Franco Pirajno Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia Foreword by Peter A. Cawood...Geological Survey of Western Australia Franco Pirajno Geological Survey of Western Australia 100 Plain St...St. East Perth WA 6004 Australia franco.pirajno@doir.wa.gov.au ISBN: 978-1-4020-8612-0 e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8613-7...Library of Congress Control Number: 2008933283 # Springer ScienceþBusiness Media B.V. 2009 No part of this...Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE xiii CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Mineral Deposit versus Orebody 1.2. Styles...Styles of Mineralization and Morphology of Mineral Deposits 1.3. Distribution of Mineral Deposits 1.3...FORMATION OF MINERAL DEPOSITS 2.1. Ore-forming Processes 2.2. Orthomagmatic Processes 2.3. Examples of Orthomagmatic...Processes 2.6. Examples of Metamorphic Deposits 2.7. Hydrothermal Processes 2.8. Examples of Hydrothermal Deposits...18 33 49 54 56 73 89 92 CHAPTER 3. INTERPRETATION OF MINERAL DEPOSITS - I 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Geologic
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paragenesis of heavy rare earth element mineralization of the Tanami region, Western Australia Teimoor Nazari-Dehkordi...22 March 2019 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019 Abstract Metasedimentary rock-hosted...distributed across a large district of the Tanami region of central Australia, close to a regional unconformity...unconformity between Archean metasedimentary rocks of the Browns Range Metamorphics (BRM) and overlying...Group sandstones. The orebodies consist predominantly of quartz, xenotime, and minor florencite and occur
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Associate Editors Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England...England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead Green Valley...University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson...Number One Articles The 100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California . . . .... . . . . . . . . . .13 by W. E. Wilson Abstacts of the 29th annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical
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Mapiti Court Boulder, Colorado 80301 COLORADO IS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHL Y MINERALIZED states in the Union...it known for the variety and complexity of species, but many of the minerals found in Colorado occur in...extraordinarily large and beautiful crystals. Some of the best Colorado specimens are not found in public...public displays, but rather in the collections of private individuals throughout the United States. These...quality. Many of these fine pieces have never been seen by anyone except the few lucky friends of the owners
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University of Manchester Library] at 23:52 19 November 2014 A Tour JACK A. MURPHY Department of Earth Sciences...Sciences Denver Museum of Nature and Science 2001 Colorado Boulevard Denver, Colorado 80205-5798 jmurphy...noted, all photos by Jack Thompson of specimens from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS; DMNH...one another and compare different types and ages of rocks where gemstones are known to occur. We cannot...this is a general review of classic localities with some key references. Most of the deposits are well known
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Houston Museum of Nat. Sci. Houston, Texas Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P....Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino Royal...University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson...Volume Thirty, Number Five Articles The Mex-Tex mine, Bingham, N ew M exico.............................................................. 395 Abstracts of new mineral descriptions........................
 
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