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Hardystonite from
Slag dumps, Tasmanian Smelting Company site, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Slag Locality
Classification
Species:Hardystonite
Formula:Ca2Zn[Si2O7]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hardystonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Slag dumps, Tasmanian Smelting Company site, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1496026
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1496026:8
GUID (UUID V4):68c325e2-4de1-4388-b2a5-0c3518ed87c4
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Characterization of Non-Ferrous Historical Slag in Western Tasmania: Identifying Reprocessing Options Anita...3, Nathan Fox 1 and Paul Olin 2,4 1 W.H.Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre, Sustainable Minerals...QLD 4068, Australia 2 Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences (CODES), University of Tasmania, Private...Private Bag 79, Sandy Bay, TAS 7001, Australia 3 GHD (Gutteridge, Haskins and Davey), 2 Salamanca Square, Battery...Battery Point, TAS 7000, Australia 4 ARC Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC) Industrial Transformation
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Mineralogy and the release of trace elements from slag from the Hegeler Zinc smelter, Illinois (USA) Nadine...handling by R. Fuge a b s t r a c t Slag from the former Hegeler Zn-smelting facility in Illinois (USA) is...willemite, subhedral gahnite, massive zincite, hardystonite and a Zn sulfate (brianyoungite), among other...content of the smelting furnace before Zn extraction. The bulk major-element chemistry of most slag samples...Al2O3, Fe2O3 and CaO. The bulk composition of the slag suggests a high viscosity of the melt and the mineralogy
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Edinburgh, Grant Institute, The King’s Buildings, West Main Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, U.K. 1 Abstract The...petedunnite decomposes to willemite [Zn2SiO4 (wil)], hardystonite [Ca2ZnSi2O7 (har)], and quartz [SiO2 (qtz)]...disregarding the phase transition of quartz. The stability field of wil + har + qtz is restricted toward lower temperatures...display shallow positive slopes within the P/T-field, indicating that the crystallization of petedunnite...petedunnite component in pyroxene shifts its stability field to higher pressures, similar to the effect of a
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in pyrometallurgical slags from the Orzeł Biały smelting plant in the Bytom Piekary Śla˛skie area, Poland...years of continuous working of the Orzeł Biały smelting plant. Slags are composed of: oxides (spinel,...present in greater amounts in leachate from weathered slag samples. The documented amounts of As, Zn, Pb and...purposes. K EY WORDS : Zn-Pb slag, slag composition, heavy elements mobilization, slag crystallization in undercooling...framework. As a result, they are either dumped on site or are commonly used for a variety of commercial
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include: Exotic Gemstones; a variety of uncommon Mineral Specimens with important provenances; Historic...world, although populations in North America and Australia were artificially introduced for hunting. They...CT   11 49114 GIANT CLAM SHELL Tridacna gigas Australia The giant clam is native to the warm seas of the...while whaling between the Galapagos Islands and the coast of Chile. It is in pristine condition with a fine...famous and most collected bi-colored fluorescent mineral combination in the world and this stunningly veined
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published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mining Ore Deposits: Geological Factors, Economy and Politics.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2.1 Prospecting Slag Heaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2.2...Slagless Metallurgy . . . . . . . . 5.2.3 Slag Heaps of Metal Smelting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3 The Investigation... . 5.4.3 Slag Cakes, Matte Smelting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4.4 Slag Cakes and Slag Foam . .
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fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though the state produces more...Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval concretions (containing...States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY:...gravel rd. 2 mi. to the Mahoning Mine No. 3, on dumps⎯Fluorite crystals; g Fairview Landing, area mines⎯Cerussite
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fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though the state produces more...Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval concretions (containing...States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY:...gravel rd. 2 mi. to the Mahoning Mine No. 3, on dumps⎯Fluorite crystals; g Fairview Landing, area mines⎯Cerussite
 
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