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Opal from
Don Hill, Devonport district, Devonport City municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Hill
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 Don Hill, Devonport district, Devonport City municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:359139
Long-form Identifier:1:3:359139:0
GUID (UUID V4):f7105e4e-084d-44d1-8451-9b5d1ed1710b
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
71.7km (44.5 miles) Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Book
containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20 mOl thick) composed...(up to 12 meters thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters...Little Bird Rock areas, near Flinders, Victoria, Australia, are believed to have formed near the surface...basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed to have formed when...spring areas. Chabazite, phillipsite, natrolite, opal, chalcedony, calcite, apophyllite, and plombierite
Book
containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20 mOl thick) composed...(up to 12 meters thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters...Little Bird Rock areas, near Flinders, Victoria, Australia, are believed to have formed near the surface...basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed to have formed when...spring areas. Chabazite, phillipsite, natrolite, opal, chalcedony, calcite, apophyllite, and plombierite
Book (edition)
include both cabochon and facet cut styles. The common opal of Virgin Valley, Nevada, lends itself well to ca...Specimens of corundum from the Zout- pansburg district, Transvaal, respond to long waves with a variable...the violet and red sapphires from Ceylon and Australia which are colored yellow, fluoresce with short...was made in 1946 by A. E. Alexander of New York City. He states that blue sapphires, whether genuine...waves; the material from the Rochester mining district, Nevada, fluo resces a doubtful weak flesh with
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...1962 1967 A.E. Jenkins and G.M. Willis 3. Broken Hill Mines — 1968 1968 and Papua New Ed. C.L. Knight...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
Book (edition)
include both cabochon and facet cut styles. The common opal of \ irgin Valley, Nevada, lends itself well to...Specimens of corundum from the Zout­ pansburg district, Transvaal, responcl to 1011g waves ,vith a ,rariable...111acle in I 946 by A. E. Alexander of New York City. He states that blue sapphires, ,vhether genuine...dian1onds phosphoresce of differ­ Rochester mining district, N e\·ada, flu­ ent colors, most South Africa11...but X-rays excite a dull to bright fluorescence. OPAL. See Quartz M inerals. PEARLS. The lumi11escence
Journal (issue)
figure of early day Virgin Valley, Neveda, opal mining and an opal cucter, died in the Hum• boldt County General...of 84 years. He was born in Boonville, Mo. Many opal gems he cut on his lapidary machine, powered by...thusiastic interest in these gems, he was nicknamed "Opal Jack". One last fond wish was realized by him in...MISTAKE By HORACE W. SLOCUM 355 Charlotte Ave., Rock Hill, S. C. This story has been in my system all too...been sent to the Bindery and I had to leave the city before they were returned. They might be f ouoq
Book
Connelite and botallackite, Levant The image of the opal from St Austell is credited to Greenside Minerals...well as two scenic views to give a flavour of the district. Such a plethora of wonderful minerals — each...impossible to include all those found in each district. | have therefore included a gallery of minerals...minescape Museum from district, houses Nument hill, which dominates the district vas to at Pool to the...orange-brc metit collectors just err as the district al re t i vere it river drained the Placer
Book
FRANKFURT υ. κ. Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill H a l l , Oxford O X 3 OBW, England U . S. A ....Ltd., 207 Queen's Quay West, Toronto 1, Canada AUSTRALIA Pergamon Press (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., 19a Boundary...Boundary Street, Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W. 2011, Australia FRANCE Pergamon Press S A R L , 24 rue des Ecoles...continent or, in the case of Australasia, by Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Papua-New Guinea...the deposits are arranged by prov­ inces, in Australia by states, and in Japan by islands. In India,
Journal (volume)
Tucker, District Mining Engineer Logan, District Mining Engineer Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer...Engineer J. C. O'Brien, District Mining Engineer Arthur A. Center, Associate Metallurgical Engineer John...Mineral Technologist Reid J. Sampson, Assistant District Mining Engineer C. A. James M. Little, Assistant...California, by S. C. Creasey Tin Deposits of the Gorman District, Kern County, California, by John H. 31 Wiese...Claim by Original Locator, State of California, District Court of Appeal 57 MINERAL EXHIBIT AND STATISTICS
Book
Grassington & Cockhillmine,Bewerfey, Yorkshire; Me!don aplnequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon Roughton Gill,Caldbeck...stromeyerr.e Pengenna mine,StKew,Cornwall r!.e'.don ap'.itequany.nrOkeha:np'.on, De·:0:1 svanberg:te·...andVigramines,nr Oolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales t!.e'.don ra:::ayqJarry,nr o~eha'Tlp'.:i. , Dev:i:i lhaumas:...specimens of crystallized gold from K.anowna.Western Australia, and Kingsbury's specimens labelled "Porthcurnick...work (as chief collaborator on Kingsbury's Lake District "discoveries") is most affected by the problem
Journal (volume)
a knowledge of Mi neralogy and Geology , in a district so inex haustibly rich in all the varied treasures...John Ayrton Paris, M.D. F.L.S. Dover -street, Lon don . William Maclure, Esq. Philadelphia . John Henry...Kenegie. Thomas Hartley, Esq. Falmouth . William R. Hill, Esq . Helston . J. Hawkins , Esq. Bignor Park,...Sandstone. 1. - By the percolation of water through a hill of cal careous sand, by which it becomes impregnated...percolation through the transition limestone of that district. The effect of this will be the deposition of
Book
LoNDON DISTRICT. 1 0 . Sus-So1Ls from a Sanitary point of view ; with espetj&l reference to L®don and... .. . . .. . .. ,, 2. Map of the St. A ustell district .. . .. . .. . ... . •. ,, 3. Map of part of Bodmin.... . .. ,, 4. Map of the Dartmoor Chi}?-a-clay district . . . .. . ... . .. ,, 5. Diagram of a Cornish...... . .. ,, 12. Geological map of St. Y rieix district . .. .. . . .. . .. ,, 13. Diagram of Quarrie8...of the Kaolin district of Colettes and Echassieres ,, 22. Geological map of the district arou11d Cambo;
Journal (volume)
elevation, the highest point of the whole being Bardon Hill, situated nearly midway between Grooby and Thrinkston...general outline of the principal feature of the district in question. From the height which has already...of trap rocks on the south-eastern parts of the district, being incorrectly carried up to the north-eastern...remainder of our district (coloured yellow in the map) may be considered as one large hill, rising into frequent...lofty near the centre, Beacon Hill, is but little lower than Bar- don Hill, the highest point of the whole
Book (volume)
........................ 83 The History of Lord Hill, Black Mountain, Mount Apatite, and Nathaniel H...Daigle, Mexico, Maine Glen Dakin, Bethel, Maine Don Dallaire, Chester, New Hampshire Bob Davis, Newry...Maine Dennis Durgin, Hebron, Maine Hugh Durgin, Blue Hill, Maine Leslie Eastman, Greene, Maine Rod Eastman...Skowhegan, Maine Curt Joseph, Damariscotta, Maine Don Joyner, Lisbon Falls, Maine Wynne Keller, Norridgewock...Strubble, Bath, Maine Dan Studley, Portland, Maine Don Swenson, Somersworth, New 1-1,,.,,..,.,.,"'h"·"'
Book (edition)
on Calton Hjll • Ito OKS of Calton Hill ROOKS of Craiglockhart Hill, with notice NEWER? VOLCANIC RocKs...335 LowEn. C.ARDONIFEROUS RocKs, from the Pentland Hill chain into Linlitbgowshire - 336 Table-case C (Lower...-PEBBLES 0}' SCRATCIIED BLACK LIMESTO~E at Torgni, hill of Cha1'donne (Torat) near Vevey, Lake of Geneva...that all the more important general contours of hill and valley in the continents of the old and new...lofty and solid looking that it forms an actual hill. This is 1)robably the remains of a great rrioraine
Journal (volume)
and Photographs of the Skull of Macleay, from Australia. [Abstract.] .... 541 trilobus, On some Comparative...[Abstract,] On 84 in the upper part of Shotover Hill. 236 the Gold Fields of Ballaarat, Victoria, ... On the Extinct Volcanos of Victoria, 227 Australia Sorby, H. C, Esq. On some Peculiarities in the...12... Tertiary Shotover Hill Skye Crimea „ 3 f. 4 Wealden Shotover Hill Crimea semiplana. PL ix... j V Wealden ? subangulata. Shotover Hill Shotover Hill PI. xiii. f. 7 Wealden Planorbis cornucopia
Book
regular induction of them applied not to a limited district, but extending to the whole of this country, may...formed only from the inspection of a very limited district. The imperfect acquaintance with his subject displayed...surface, giving rise to all its beautiful variety of hill and valley, phoenomena of the most decisive character...rous application to the vallies of any extensive district, or to any map of those vallies in which the configuration...transverse, those which cut transversely across the hill chains. Since the direction of the chains of hills
Report (Issue volume)
the general direction of Mr. T. H. Whitehead as District Geo)ogist., The Northampton Sand Ironstone Field...• . FIG. 3.-Geological sections across Hunsbury Hill, south-west of Northampton • . FIG. 4.-Section of...). 1 7. BURLEY (Dorman Long). 1 8. Easton-on-the-Hill. 1 9. Wothorpe. 20. Burleigh Park (Stamford). 21...Materials Co.). 49. Thorpe Underwood. 50. Rothwell Hill. · 51. Rothwell Deep and Rothwell Shallow. 52. GLENDON...MINE (Richard Thomas and Baldwios). I 02. South hill. 103. Carrol Springs, Nos.. 5 and 5A. 104. WELLINGBOROUGH
 
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