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Prosopite from
Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Prosopite
Formula:CaAl2F4[(OH)4-xFx]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Kaolinite
Tourmaline
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prosopite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:37026
Long-form Identifier:1:3:37026:4
GUID (UUID V4):76923a61-bfdd-4b7a-872f-02885472601e
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY BISCHOFF TIN No. 3 1922.. OF THE DEPOSITS, MOUNT TASMANIA. J. G. WESTON-DUNN...) chl'orite.................................. Prosopite, pyrrhotite, calcite, (?) fluorite .............WESTON-DUNN. INTRODUCTION. The tin depositsof Mount Bischoffoffer an unusualopportunity for geologicalstudy...characterof thesetin deposits. The study of the Mount Bischofftin depositswas undertaken at the suggestion...the presentday the main tin-bearing material at Mount Bischoffis a loose,often incoherentpyritic (marcasitic)deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluid activity at the Mount Bischoff Sn-deposit , north-west Tasmania, Australia J.H. WRIGHT, Mt Kersen...Western Australia T.A.P. KWAK, Department of Geology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia 3083 Abstract...Devonian (360 Ma) tin deposit at Mt Bischoff, north-west Tasmania, formed from the interaction of unusual...topaz + quartz 2 tourmaline ? fluorite, weberite, prosopite, ralstonite, Ca-ralstonite; and quartz ? topaz...rock-flour and later tourmaline alteration. The Mt Bischoff greisen system is possibly part of a ‘porphyry
Report (issue)
Introduction, p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland...Index, p. 60; : Subject Index, p. 86 : Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95...95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject Index...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same district, but it is sometimes difficult or impossible to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
551-574 Tin-Bearing Greisensof Mount Bischoff,NorthwesternTasmania,Australia J. H. WRIGHT* AND T. A. P. KWAK...TrobeUniversity,Bundoora,Victoria3083, Australia Abstract The large Mount Bischofftin depositoccurswithin an...cycles. Introduction THE Mount Bischofftin depositin northwesternTasmania,Australia(long 145ø31'16"E, lat...Mining, 44 St. GeorgesTerrace, Perth, Western Australia. 0361-0128/89/922/551-24 $3.00 greisen mineral...greisenalteration within the marginsof thispluton.At Mount Bischoff thesetermsare spatialin contextand are appliedto
Book
MODELS IN E X P L O R A T I O N GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 .Australia 14. G. BÀRDOSSY KARSTIC BAUXITES 15. АЖ ROSE and...Geology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic. 3083, Australia ELSEVIER Amsterdam - Oxford - New York — Tokyo... hand, and in the U.S.A., Western Europe and Australia on the other. This arises in part from the fact...or + chlorite assemblages (e.g. Renison, Tas., Australia - Patterson et al.,1981; Changpo, Jiangxi, P.R...ilmenite assemblages (e.g. Mt. Lindsay, Tas., Australia - Kwak,1983). Apart from their economic element
Book
first discovered in limestone blocks ejected by Mount Vesuvius, each one exemplifies the wonder of nature...com Australian agent/distributor: Pan Macmillan Australia; tel. 1300 135 113; fax 1300 135 103; customer...clouds of gas and ash called nuees ardentes, such as Mount Pelee, Martinique, in 1902. 'Plinian' eruptions...out of the water first. , .2.t'l UNDERSTAN DING MINE RALS HOVV MINERALS FORM Minerals are the natural...thicker E.g barite, linante. r& iJ NDE RSTA NDING MINE RAL S MI NERAL PROPERTIES: PHYSICAL Every 1nineral
Book
USSR; as crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone...Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....Ballarat, Victoria and from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. In the USA gold is often obtained by individual...cinnabar. Localities. Mercury is found at Idrija and Mount Avala, Yugoslavia and near Landsberg, W. Germany...areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange
Book
Geological Survey; 52BL, David Huston, Geoscience Australia; 17TR, Marli Miller; 23TR, 48 (in Optical Effects...But isolated high mountain peaks, like Kenya's Mount Kilimanjaro - some 5895m (19,340 ft) high - are...clouds of gas and ash called nuees ardentes, such as Mount Pelee, Martinique, in 1902. ‘Plinian’ eruptions...pressure of upwelling Glencoe in Scotland and Mount called stocks and bosses. Erosion may magma fractures...exceptions. Then in as erupted at Washington’s Mount St the late 1980s, seismic surveys of the Helens
Book
In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip of a mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for the...metal or commodity markets, so it may be economic to mine a deposit one year but not the next. Abundance and
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want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip ofa mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for...metal or commodity markets, so it may be economic to mine a deposit one year but not the next. Abundance and...may now be of sufficient economic value for old mine waste tips to be reworked for, it. A good example
Journal (issue)
results in wells or tunnels. The Imine in Norway, for example, w~ cultivated to a depth...the Greek meaning 'many coloured' • . P leochroic mine~a(s a~d gemstones get their d1stmc~ve colours from...gemstone, and fine specimens have been found in Australia, Peru and Sweden. Among the rarer triclinic gems...Broken tite. These are all minerals of Hill, Australia, and at Iva, the phosphate group. Anapaite South...idocrase discovered on the slopes of the volcanic Mount Vesuvius south of Naples in Italy. Vesuvianite may
Report (volume)
viii-ix. The physical geology of the Grand Canon district, by Clarence E. Button, pp. 47-166, pis. x-xxxvi...of'the geology of the Comstock lode and the Wash oe district, by George F. Becker, pp. 291-330, pis. xlvi-xlvii...xviii-xxiii. Abstract of report on'geology of the Eureka district, Nevada, by Arnold Hague, pp. 237-290, pis. xxiv-xxv...of a report on the mining geology of the Eureka district, Nevada, by Joseph Story Curtis, pp. 221-251,...reports of chiefs of divisions, pp. 1-101, pis. iv-x. Mount Taylor and the Zufii Plateau, by Capt. Clarence
 
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