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Osmiridium from
Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Iridium var: Osmiridium
Formula:(Ir,Os,Ru)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Rutheniridosmine2 photos of Osmiridium associated with Rutheniridosmine at this locality.
Iridosmine2 photos of Osmiridium associated with Iridosmine at this locality.
Osmium1 photo of Osmiridium associated with Osmium at this locality.
Iridium1 photo of Osmiridium associated with Iridium at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Osmiridium data
Locality Data:Click here to view Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:160782
Long-form Identifier:1:3:160782:6
GUID (UUID V4):b1da3be4-737b-4114-b32f-a02199f773c0
Localities for Osmiridium in this Region
Halls Open Cut, Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Osmiridium
1.4km (0.8 miles) Halls Open Cut, Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
48.5km (30.2 miles) Forster Prospect, Weld river district, Huon-Channel region, Huon Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
94.3km (58.6 miles) Rocky Boat Harbour Osmiridium Field, New River Lagoon district, Huon Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Tasmania R. J. Foao Departmentof Geology,Universityof Tasmania,Hobart, Tasmania7005,Australia Abstract...Surveyor-General Sprentdiscovered "osmiridium"in 1875 in the Wilson River valley. Thesemineralsare now knownfrom...availablefor the Tasmanjan minerals.Some 31 analysesof Adamsfield materialfrom varioussources werepublished by...Cabri and Harris (1975) analyzed15 grainsfrom Tasmania,includingninefrom Heazlewoodand six from Adamsfield...following phases:iridosmine, rutheniridosmine, osmiridium, ruthenosmiridium, and irarsite. Geology of
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)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...alloys from boninitic magmas: Evidence from western Tasmania a b David C. Peck , Reid R. Keays & Ramsey J...Vic., 3052, Australia c Formerly of the Department of Geology , University of Tasmania , GPO Box 252C...252C, Hobart, Tas., 7001, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007. To cite this article: David C. Peck...alloys from boninitic magmas: Evidence from western Tasmania, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Geology and Petrology of the Adamsfield Ultramafic Complex, Tasmania R. Varne 1 and A.V. Brown 2 Department...University of Tasmania, Box 252C, G.P.O., Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 2 Geological Survey of Tasmania, Box...Box 124B, G.P.O., Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Abstract. The Adamsfield Ultramafic Complex is one...Cambrian time in the Tasman Geosyncline. The Adamsfield complex is composed of partlyserpentinized dunites...compositions apparently failed to react further. Adamsfield mineral assemblages probably crystallized originally
Journal (issue)
Pen-Pushers with Pans: 20th-Century Tasmanian Osmiridium Mining Dr. Nie Haygarth I have to apologise...Wildboarclough. Yesterday 's Go/condas. Hartington: Valley of the Wild Stream: A History of Flindall, R.... The Copper and Lead Mines around 1he Manifold Valley, North Staffordshire. Ashbourne: Landmark. Rieuwerts...especially on tips, chains of crown holes, brooks and valley floors. lo their surroundings ore processing, smelting...Sauerland, about 4 km south of Bestwig in the Valme valley, a tributary to the river Ruhr in the northern
Book
# ' 'M & va ;>1 MINERALS All GEMSTONES OF TASMANIA v. AND THEIR LOCATIONS By KEITH E. LANCASTER...LANCASTER Si "s MINERALS All :' GEMSTONES OF TASMANIA AND THEIR LOCATIONS By KEITH E. LANCASTER The author...Keith Lancaster — panning for osmiridium at the “Clay Bank”, west of Adamsfield. Published by GEMCRAFT PUBLICATIONS...National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0909223 04 1 Printed in Australia by Quadricolor Industries...mines; Colebrook Hill; Stichtitc and barbertonite; Osmiridium; Slate quarries; Zeolites; Tektites and darwin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BELT SYSTEM IN TASMANIA P . L . F . C O L L I N S a n d E. W I L L I A M S Tasmania Geological Survey...of Mines, p.o. Box 56. Rosny Park, Tasm. 7018 (Australia) (Accepted for publication January 13, 1986 )...in Tasmania. In: E. Scheibner (Editor). Metallogeny and Tectonic Development of Eastern Australia. Ore...Ore Geol. Rev., 1 : 153--201. In western Tasmania, Precambrian sedimentary sequences form the basement...deposits. Pre-Middle Devonian rocks of western Tasmania differ, for most part, from those in the northeast
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsof Tasmania M. SOLOMON GeologyDepartrnent,G. P. 0., Box252C, Universityof Tasmania,Hobart, Tasmania7001...Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract The major operatingmetallic ore depositsof Tasmaniaare (a) volcanic-hosted...varioustypes. Tasmaniahasin thepastbeenalsoa producerof osmiridium,nickelsulfideore(in Cambrian mafic-ultramaficrocks)...mineral- reconstruction of the land masses around Tasmania just prior to the openingof the TasmanSea in... 1971). Unfortunately the relationshipbetween Tasmania and adjacentpartsof the Tasmanfold belt in earlier
Report (issue)
Association: irarsite, laurite, isoferroplatinum, Osmiridium, deposits, and concentrated placer, Japan;...the Heazlewood Complex and the Adamsfield district, Tasmania, Australia. In the Guma Water placers, Sierra
Report (edition)
British G1-1iana • • •• India .. • • • • • • Australia .. • • • • Papua .. • • • • • • New Guinea • •...quantities were produced in U.S.A., Canada and Australia. In 1934, howe,rer, Canada for the first time...approximately as follows~ platinum, 60 to 90; osmiridium, 11p to 27; iridium, up to 7; 1·hodiu1n, up to...nickeliferous iro11. Exceptionally, the amount of osmiridium in native platinum reaches 37 per cent. or more...the most part, with the platinum; whereas the osmiridium appears to be present as such, in the state of
Report (issue)
___ ----------------------Australia-------------------------------------Tasmania---------------------------------New...location of gold-platinum placer deposits, Tulameen Valley, British Columbia-----------------------------..._________________________ 22. Composition of osmiridium from Witwatersrand__________________________...________________________________________ 28. Osmiridium from Colombia ____________________________________...----------__________________ 29. Osmiridium and platinum from the Heazelwood and Adamsfield districts, Tasmania______________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[17], in which commonly used "iridosmine" and "osmiridium" are now replaced by hexagonal osmium and cubic...this study were from the Cambrian Adamsfield intrusions in Tasmania, the Carboniferous "serpentine belt"...eastern Sabah, Malaysia (Fig. 1). Among them, the Adamsfield intrusions [19] and ultramafic intrusions of...1870s/1860$(c) N(d) NON-ZONED TYPES Adamsfield, Tasmania, Australia 906"0862 Ir430s47Ru10 [18] 1.028 9060863...TABLE 2 Range o f 1 8 7 0 s / 1 8 ~ 0 s Location Adamsfield Cariboo Atlin Kalimantan Sabah Teshio Onnabetsu
Journal (issue)
Saratoga, N. Y. Featured in This Issue Osmiridium Mining in Tasmania. By P. Ormsby Lennon Beryllium in... Burr, Geologist The Geology of the Hutchin.on Valley Sanitary Sewer Tunnel. By Thomas W . Fluhr, A....Whole No. 19. 1926 Contents for March, 1931 Osmiridium Mining in 'l'asmania. Bu P. Orm11bu Lennon ....PUBLISHED MARCH QUARTERLY 1931 Osmiridium Mining in Tasmania --By-- P. OR~ISBY LENNON, Royat E1npire...to miners and ordinary laymen it is known as osmiridium, or colloquially, "ossie". Investigation showed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ite Occurrencesin the HeazlewoodRiver Complex,Tasmania DAVID C. PECK* AND REID R. KEAYS Departmentof...Universityof Melbourne,Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia Abstract Three distinctivechromititeoccurrences...group of the ultramafic Heazlewood River Complex, Tasmania. platinum-groupelementsfrom the Pd group of the...accounting for the platinum-group mineral-chromitite Tasmania(Fig. 1). The HeazlewoodRiver Complex occurrencesin...13 Boyes River Ultramafic-mafic complex0s 14 Adamsfield 15 Rocky BoatHarbour FIG. 1. Geologyof west
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
technique Most of the samples are in the form of osmiridium grains of about ! mm in diameter. We can then...order of 200 ng for Re, and 2/.tg for Os. 3. Osmiridium samples Witwatersrand: The conglomerates of...communication) ultramafic rocks. Colombia placers: The osmiridium from Colombia are associated with the young ultramafics...are associated with 150 TABLE 1 Summary of osmiridium samples, their 187Os/186Os ratios and ages Sample...Sample 187Os/186Os Age (m.y.) Witwatersrand (osmiridium) President Steyn (Orange Free State) Evander
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with Sn, As, and Sb 1 -- Osmium Iridosmine Osmiridium ---- Gold 4.2 Total 99.9 to a coherent...MerenskyReef remains irarsite in alteration zones in osmiridium alloys largelythe same. Differences in the proportions...increasingmaturity. Cabri and Harris (1975) mention the Adamsfield,Tasmania,eluvialplacerswhich consistlargely of (Os...attaches to occurrences from Japan,the Urals, Australia,and South America. Our interest is focused on...other platinumminerals. Samplesfrom Victoria, Australia,reveal a dominanceof Pt-Fe alloys. The Victoria
Report (issue)
Western Australia. ^B.H.P. Minerals, Perth, Western Australia. ^Geological Survey of Tasmania, Hobart...Western Australia Mineral Resource Bulletin 14, "Nickel Mineralization in Western Australia," by R. J...articles are contained in University of Western Australia Geology Department and Extension Service Publication...deposits of the Norseman-Wiluna Belt, Western Australia," edited by D. I. Groves and C. M. Lesher for...contributions of Mark Barley, University of Western Australia; D. Russel Hudson; A. L. Jaques; Charter Mathison;
Journal (issue)
.................................... 102 Australia Tasmania............................................PLACER DEPOSITS Australia (1-6) ч% O' New Caledonia (1-5) •ii О/ 4 -оmb Tasmania d -в) С.- Fig...urm a, Chindwin Brazil, Itabira A ustralia, Tasmania Formula Mineral | Table 1. Reported platin...and Auge, 1993a) has addi­ ■ о о о a © Australia, Tasmania Brazil Burma Canada, Alberta Canada, B.C...Creek, and Cariboo in British Columbia, Adamsfield in Tasmania, Teshio and Onnebetsu in Japan, and in
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ 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
Report (issue)
1). Mertie (1969) also indicates platinum and osmiridium were found in placer deposits in west Borneo...republished 4 analyses of nuggets and 4 analyses of osmiridium from the Goenoeng-Lawak region (Table 3; nugget...alloy, 35 percent Os - Ir alloy (iridosmine, osmiridium, rutheniridosmine), 20 percent goldsilver-copper...one with inclusions (see below); 1 grain of Pt-Osmiridium. Microprobe analyses given in Burgath (1988)...silicate (Fe-Al silicate with Ca, Ti, and V). Pt-osmiridium grains are subrounded with embayments Au, diamond
Report (issue)
described from the migmatitic gneisses of the Pietrosu Valley and in hornfels of the Baul Massif, near Poiana...at Nevada Creek, Dundas mining district, Tasmania, Australia (in Lancaster,1977) and from the Bou Offroh...greisenised granites at Bygoo, New South Wales, Australia; in the weathering zone of the Tazna tin deposit...described from the Iron Monarch deposit, South Australia (Pring et al., 1 992) and in the Deep Copper zone...alluvial deposits of the Thomson River, Victoria, Australia (Edwards et al., 1942). Braggite was initially
Book
South African gold mines, probably half those in Australia and one quarter of Canadian gold mines were no...1990. The operators, Broken Hill Proprietary of Australia, and its partners, including the RTZ Corporation...enormous tracts of land in North America and Australia are being arbitrarily placed out of bounds for...Mij Maatschappij Netherlands NL No Liability Australia NPL No Personal Liability Canada NV Naamloze.../ndonesia Pte Private Singapore Pty Proprietary Australia, South Africa Pvt Private /ndia, Zimbabwe SA_
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in the United States, but a lso in Canada and Australia. The gold rush to California that started in 1848...and led to other important discoveries. As in Australia and Canada, food and shelter were needed for a...igin of so me of them, such as the Mississippi -Valley and similar lead-zinc depos its, the deposits of...reefs of the Ballarat and Bendigo gold districts, Australia (Figs. 2- 14, 2-15) . The major features responsible...saddle reef (solid black) , Bendigo goldfield . Australia. Simplified after D . E. TI1omas. 1953, in "Geology
 
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