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Magnetite from
Murchison Gorge, Tullah, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Gorge
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Murchison Gorge, Tullah, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:616379
Long-form Identifier:1:3:616379:2
GUID (UUID V4):c9024b40-3c68-4380-ae73-84b549c0021f
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
11.1km (6.9 miles) Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
17.5km (10.8 miles) Renison Bell Mine (Renison Mine), North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
19.5km (12.1 miles) Melba Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
19.8km (12.3 miles) Mt Lindsay mine (Parsons Hood), Mt Lindsay mineral field, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
20.6km (12.8 miles) Tunnel Hill Quarry, Serpentine Hill, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
20.9km (13.0 miles) Wilson River mineral field, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
21.2km (13.2 miles) Razorback mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
21.6km (13.4 miles) Stichtite Hill, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
21.8km (13.6 miles) Anio Creek prospect, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
23.0km (14.3 miles) Nickel Reward (Melbourne Copper-Nickel Mine), Cuni mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
81, 1986, pp. 1341-1355 The MurchisonGorge, Tasmania, a PossibleCrossSectionthrough a CambrianMassiveSulfideSystem...Resources, P.O. Box 378, Canberra,A.C.T. 2601, Australia C. J. EASTOE, Departmentof Geosciences, Universityof...Canberra,A.C.T. 2601, Australia Abstract The MurchisonGorge,northeastof Roseberyin Tasmania, is believedto...are a local Cambrian mineralized horizon. The Murchison Granite and the MurchisonVolcanicsappearto be...calcite, (hematite, magnetite); epidotezone---epidote, chlorite,calcite,magnetite, (allanite); potassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MassiveSulfideDepositsin the Mount Read Volcanics, Western Tasmania C. J. EASTOE, Departmentof Ceosciences, Universityof...Bureau of Mineral Resources,P.O. Box 378, Canberra,Australia 2601 AND J. L. WALSHE Departmentof Geology,AustralianNational...Severalcomplexassemblages involvingthe aboveminerals;biotite, magnetite,pyrite, andtourmalineare characteristic of granitecontacts...belt alongthe marginof the Precambriannucleusof Tasmania. The belt stretches between Deloraine in the...beneathyoungerrocks,andElliottBayon the southwest coast(Fig. 1). In the interval between Mount Darwin andthe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the genesis of world class VHMS deposits in Tasmania Ross Large a, Mark Doyle a, Ollie Raymond b, David...Studies, Unicersity of Tasmania, G.P.O. Box 252C, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia b AGSO, P.O. Box 378...378, Canberra, ACT2601, Australia Received 24 March 1995; accepted 26 July 1995 Abstract An analysis...which intrude the Mt Read Volcanics of western Tasmania provides evidence that there may have been a direct...over 60 kin. The Cambrian granites are altered magnetite series types which show enrichment in barium and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Read Volcanicsbetween Que River and Mount Darwin, Tasmania M. SOLOMON, Bureauof Mineral Resources, G. P.O...O. Box378, Canberra,A. C. T. 2601, Australia C. J. EASTOE, Departmentof Geosciences, Universityof Arizona...Canberra,A. C. T. 2601, Australia AND G. R. GREEN GeologicalSurveyof Tasmania,P.O. Box56, RosnyPark,... Tasmania7018, Australia Abstract Most of the mineral depositsin the Mount Read Volcanicsare of Cambrianage...deep circulationsystemsexposednear graniteat Murchison,Lake Selina,and Darwin (8-17%0)is probablya mixof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Exploration of the Mount Read Volcanics,Western Tasmania: Pt. I. Geologyand Exploration,Elliott Bay Ross...GeologyDepartment,Universityof Tasmania,G.P.O.Box252C, Hobart, Tasmania7001,Australia WALTER HERRMANN, RSD 1060...1060, Devonport,Tasmania7310, Australia AND KEITH D. COBBETT TasmanJan Departmentof Mines,P.O. Box56...Box56, RosnyPark, Tasmania7018,Australia Abstract Volcanogenic massive sulfidedeposits in easternAustr...years.Two of THE Mount Read Volcanics in western Tasmania are the five majordeposits(Que River andHellyet)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au Deposit and Granites in Western Tasmania, Australia I. R. Plimer and T. C. Lees Department of...Newcastle, NSW, Australia E.Z. Company of Australasia, West Coast Mines, Rosebery, Tas., Australia With 7 Figures...massive Zn-Pb sulphide Rosebery deposit of western Tasmania is hosted by metamorphosed deformed acid volcanics...associated with an alteration facies comprising magnetite-pyrite-tourmaline-phlogopite and the host metavolcanics...yon West-Tasmanien, Australien Die stratiforme, massive Zn-Pb-Sulfidlagerstfitte Rosebery in West-Tasmanien
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VOLCANIC-HOSTED SULPHIDE DEPOSITS AT ROSEBERY AND MT. LYELL, TASMANIA M. S O L O M O N 1, F . M . V O K E S 2 a n d...Resources, P.O. Box 378, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601 (Australia) 2 Universitet i Trondheim, N-7034 Trondheim (Norway)...University, P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601 (Australia) (Accepted for publication January 27, 1986) ...volcanic-hosted sulphide deposits at Rosebery and Mt. Lyell, Tasmania. In: B. Marshall and L.B. Gilligan (Editors),...Lyell in the Mt. Read mineral province of western Tasmania. At Rosebery, part of the massive pyrite--sph
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...the meridional Dundas Trough, is flanked to the west by the Rocky Cape region of Precambrian rocks within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Submarine Volcanic Successions: Some Examples from Australia ROSS R. LARGE,† JOCELYN MCPHIE, J. BRUCE GEMMELL...Sciences, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Abstract Variations in...volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) districts of eastern Australia, the Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics and the Cambro-Ordovician...TWO principal submarine volcanic successions in Australia that host volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS)...deposits, the Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics in Tasmania and the Cambro-Ordovician Mount Windsor subprovince
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences (2002) 49, 623–660 Mineral systems of Australia: an overview of resources, settings and processes...WALSHE2 1 2 Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. CSIRO Division of Exploration...and Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. Australia produces more than 22 mineral commodities...relative timing of critical events. KEY WORDS: Australia, geodynamics, giant deposits, metallogeny, mineral...mineral systems, mineralisation. INTRODUCTION Australia is one of the world’s most important producers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcopyrite,dol = dolomite,HM -- hematite,Mg -- magnetite,m•; = molaritysum,PO -- pyrrhotite, PY -- pyrite...Eastoe,C. J., andWalshe,J. L., 1986, The Murchison Gorge, Tasmania--a possiblecrosssection througha Camb
Report (volume)
Oxford, UK Australia Australian Mineral Foundation 63 Conyngham Street Glenside South Australia 5065 Australia...379-0444 Fax (08) 379-4634) India Affiliated East-West Press PVT Ltd G-1/16 Ansari Road New Delhi 110...reconstruction, and and include examples from Australia, Africa, South America, India, and Europe. The...considered to be those of Tertiary age, those of Australia being Mesozoic age and older, whilst an ancient...of South Africa, and Great Dividing range of Australia (Pain 1985) a major spatial variation in process
 
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