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Biphosphammite from
Petrogale Cave, Madura Roadhouse, Dundas Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Biphosphammite
Formula:NH4(H2PO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Archerite2 photos of Biphosphammite associated with Archerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biphosphammite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Petrogale Cave, Madura Roadhouse, Dundas Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:231145
Long-form Identifier:1:3:231145:6
GUID (UUID V4):0fe87838-e920-4c81-ba01-64a0aefcaace
Nearest other occurrences of Biphosphammite
61.8km (38.4 miles) Dingo Donga Cave, Madura Roadhouse, Dundas Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral from Madura, Western Australia P. J. BRIDGE Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia...has been found in Petrogale Cave, 36 km east of Madura Motel (31~ 127~ Western Australia. Archerite and...and biphosphammite together with aphthitalite, halite, syngenite, stercorite, oxammite, weddellite, whitlockite...Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia. THE discovery in February I975 of natural...mineral led to Petrogale Cave. Previously the mineral had been found in Murra-el-elevyn Cave with biphosphammite
Report (issue)
seabirds or bats. Association: Aphthitalite, biphosphammite, brushite, gypsum, monetite, syngenite, taylorite...taylorite, hannayite (Murra-el-elevyn Cave, Australia); biphosphammite, archerite, aphthitalite, halite,...mundrabillaite, newberyite, calcite (Petrogale Cave, Australia). Distribution: From North Chincha Island...Peru. In Australia, in Murra-el-elevyn Cave, Cocklebiddy, and Petrogale Cave, near Madura, Western Australia...(1973) Guano minerals from Murra-el-elevyn Cave, Western Australia. Mineral. Mag., 39, 467–469. (2) Bridge
Report (issue)
184 c = 6.411 X-ray Powder Pattern: Petrogale Cave, Australia. 4.279 (100), 3.106 (60), 8.60 (30), 3... 19.60 18.20 12.59 Total 100.00 (1) Petrogale Cave, Australia; by electron microprobe, average of nine...bat guano and urine in caves. Association: Biphosphammite, archerite, aphthitalite, halite, syngenite...newberyite, calcite (Petrogale Cave, Australia); swaknoite, dittmarite, arcanite (Arnhem Cave, Namibia). Distribution:...Distribution: In Petrogale Cave, near Madura, Western Australia. In Arnhem Cave, 150 km east of Windhoek
Report (issue)
= b; Z = Z= Space Group: [8] X-ray Powder Australia. 5.34 (100),4.71 Pattern: (60),3.460 Pbca. ...[100.00] 100.00 (1) Skipton lava tube caves, Australia; H20 by difference. (2) Mg(P030H) Occurrence:...struvite (Skipton lava tube caves, Australia); (Petrogale Cave, Australia); monetite, struvite (Paoha Island...Island, California, biphosphammite USA). Distribution: In the Skipton lava tube caves, 40 km southwest...Victoria, and the Petrogale Cave, near Madura, Western Australia. At the Niah Great Cave, Sarawak, Malaysia
Report (issue)
NHg (1) 10.8 3.46 Total (1) Petrogale H2P04. Cave, Western Australia; partial analysis, corresponding...containing bat guano deposits. Association: Biphosphammite, whitlockite, guanine, newberyite, aphthitalite...Distribution: In Petrogale Cave, near Madura, and in Murra-el-elevyn east of Balladonia, Western Australia. NaIlle:...Archer (1945- ), Curator of Mammals, Brisbane, Australia, who discovered the first specimens. Type Material:...Laboratories, oxammite, Cave, about 200 km Queensland Perth, Australia, weddellite, Museum, MDC
Report (issue)
Biphosphammite (NH4 , K)H2 PO4 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Tetragonal...[4] X-ray Powder Pattern: Murra-el-elevyn Cave, Australia. 3.75 (10), 5.24 (9), 3.02 (9b), 1.993 (8)... Total [100.3] 100.00 (1) Murra-el-elevyn Cave, Australia; partial analysis, remainder mostly CaO and...guano and urea (Murra-el-elevyn Cave, Australia). Association: Australia). Phosphammite (Guañape Island...(Murra-el-elevyn Cave, Distribution: On Guañape Island, south of Trujillo, Peru. In Murra-el-elevyn Cave, Cocklebiddy
Report (issue)
Island, Namibia); archerite, biphosphammite (Petrogale Cave, Western Australia). Distribution: On Ichaboe...south of Trujillo, Peru. In Petrogale Cave, near Madura, Western Australia. Name: From the Latin for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
newberyite, M g H P O 4 " 3H20, in the Niah Great Cave, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is closely associated with...Chemical Laboratories, 30 Plain Street, Perth, Western Australia 6000 B. W. ROBINSON Division of Mineralogy...Wembley, Western Australia 6014 * Present address: PO Box 317, Victoria Park, Western Australia 6100. ...a b i l l a i t e - - a n e w cave mineral from W e s t e r n Australia IN an earlier contribution (Bridge...(Bridge, 1977) on minerals from the Petrogale Cave, Western Australia, naturally occurring (NH4)2Ca(HPO4)2-H20
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chemical Laboratories, 30 Plain Street, Perth, Western Australia 6000 B. W. ROBINSON Division of Mineralogy...Wembley, Western Australia 6014 * Present address: PO Box 317, Victoria Park, Western Australia 6100. ...a b i l l a i t e - - a n e w cave mineral from W e s t e r n Australia IN an earlier contribution (Bridge...(Bridge, 1977) on minerals from the Petrogale Cave, Western Australia, naturally occurring (NH4)2Ca(HPO4)2-H20...in Petrogale Cave, 36 km east of M a d u r a Motel (31 ~ 54' S., 127 ~ 00' E.), Western Australia, as
Book
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne 3205 Victoria, Australia Nelson Canada 1120...Perroud, Geneve, Switzerland; Jiri Just, Perth, Australia; Richard Thomssen, Carson City, Nevada, USA; Peter... Moculta quarry, Angaston (near), South Australia, Australia. H= 2, Djn=?, 0^= 2.15, VHD 28. Harrowfield...Mon. Lustrous black. Wilagedera prospect. North Western Province, Sri Lanka. H= 3-4, 0^= 3.94, Dg= 3.97...Orth. Lustrous black. Wilagedera prospect. North Western Province, Sri Lanka. H= 3-4, Djjj= 3.94, D(.= 4
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metamorphosed rock phosphate at Moculta, South Australia Optical constants: Not certain; low birefringence...c=6.977 (A) Mode of Occurrence: Occurs with biphosphammite and other phosphates and saline minerals as...constituent of stalactites and crusts in Petrogale Cave, Madura, W. Australia Optical Constants: W= 1.513, 8=...Colorado, Utah, California, New Mexico, and other western states; and in pegmatites in North Carolina and...in many pegmatites in the New England area. In Australia it is found in the Rum Jungle area, Northern Territory
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spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Greece 22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...13:171-173 ALSTONITE An occurrence of alstonite at Cave-in-Rock, Illinois (by G. R. Rossman & R. L. Squires)...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)
Journal (issue)
Barbosa Zinc Phosphates at Reaphook Hill, South Australia............... 20 by Christopher W. Johnston and...W e already have a tentative com m itm ent on a Cave-inRock article, but all other topics are still open...at the type locality, W odgina, W estern Australia, Australia (Simpson 1909), at Bernic Lake, M anitoba...unaltered m aterial from Wodgina, W estern Australia, Australia, to be 7.36; Nickel et al. (1963) obtained...odginite—a new tin-manganese tantalate from Wodgina, Australia, and Bernic Lake, M anitoba. Canadian Mineralogist
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of mineral species. Ernest H. Nickel Wembley, Australia — aa 4 i | a4 ‘ eS wum iver) {ORE...Trudell, L.C. (1970): Lithologic Description of Western Oil Shale Corporation Project Utah EX—]. Laramie...University of Adelaide, Australia. Moculta quarry, Angaston, South Australia, Australia. From Gk. allaktein...C2i\c (1916-1942?). Wilagedera prospect, North Western Province, Sri Lanka. The name is derived from...Museum, Australia, who first drew attention to the occurrence. Petrogale cave, Madura, Western Australia
Book (edition)
America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica), then those of pegmatitic origin...primary and alluvial, are in a long belt along the western Counties, California, etc. At Jordan6w Slcl5ki...both eastern Sayan Mts., and at Kartashubinskoye, western Sayan Mts., white at Burumskoye, Vitim River Valley...cm occur Spring Creek mine, Wilmington, South Australia. with lazuritein marbleal Sar-e-Sang.KokchaValley...from the Wolurnla gold field, New South Wales, Australia. CM 12,367, 1974. AJOITE Ahlfeldite NiSeO 3•2H2O
Book (edition)
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada 1120...Ludlow Member of the Fort Union Formation in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South...Chanarcillo, Chile; and Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs at various localities in Arizona...about 60 km northeast of Ad- elaide, South Australia, Australia. SELECTED REFERENCE: nit, E. R., and Watts...Miocene, Oligocene, and Pleistocene age in several western states. Other notable occurrences are found in
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England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada I...Ludlow Member of the Fort Union Formation in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South...Chaiiarcillo, Chile; and Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs at various localities in Arizona... Typical occurrences are found throughout the western United States, especially in California, Nevada...Lanka, India, Japan, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Australia. SELECTED REFERENCE: Deer, Ho,vie, and Zussman
Book (volume)
KCa4B22O32(OH)10Cl·4H2O Locality: Satimola salt dome, Western Kazakhstan region, Kazakhstan. Description: Colourless...Na2B4O5(OH)4·3H2O Locality: Unknown locality in Australia. Description: White fine-grained aggregate. Identified...Sr2[B5O8(OH)]2B(OH)3·H2O Locality: Shoktybay Salt Dome, Western Kazakhstan region, Kazakhstan. Description: Colourless...Locality: Kurtpinari mine, Bigadiç district, western Anatolia, Turkey (type locality). Description:...Ni)2(CO3)2(OH)2 Locality: Carr Boyd mine, Western Australia. Description: Green spherulites to 0.6 mm
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Base by Ernest H. Nickel, CSIRO, Wembley, WA, Australia, and Monte C. Nichols published by Aleph Enterprises...N SW, Australia. William D. Birch: Dept. of Mineralogy, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Frank...Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar Raade: Mineralogisk-Geologisk Museum,...Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15. Australia 16. Antarctica 17. South America The localities...Yukon States, Australia New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria
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952). p. 99. From (TL) Crackers Well. South Australia. Australia. Deposit located by air-borne scintillator;...35-676). (TL) Mocult:i quarry, Ang:iston. South Australia. Named for A.R. Alderman. Aldzhanite, uncertain...A. Z=4 fPDF 38-423 ]. (TL) Wi lagedera. North-Western Prov ince. S ri Lanka. Named for Ananda Coomaraswamy...of calcite and aragonite. (TL) Miyama limestone cave. Ehime Pref.. Japan. Anthogrammite. syn. of anthophyllite...Formed from bat guano in (TL) Petrogale Cave, near Madura Motel. Western Australia. Named for M. Archer. Archifoglio
 
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