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Atacamite from
Dome Rock Copper Mine, Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station), Olary Province, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Atacamite
Formula:Cu2(OH)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Atacamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dome Rock Copper Mine, Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station), Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:63381
Long-form Identifier:1:3:63381:7
GUID (UUID V4):6105a865-e1ff-44c5-a889-402e08e56948
Nearest other occurrences of Atacamite
25.1km (15.6 miles) Mount Howden Mine, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
59.3km (36.8 miles) Mutooroo Copper Mine, Mutooroo Homestead, Pine Creek - Mutooroo area, Mingary, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
83.5km (51.9 miles) Pinnacles Mine, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
94.7km (58.8 miles) Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
96.0km (59.6 miles) Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
taken from the Library NN GU 1900 TP CATALOGUE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIAN MINERALS: 1983 by R.J. Noble...Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue of South Australian minerals...(Robert John), 1946—supiic LIBRARY Catalogue of South Australian minerals: 1983. Bibliography. ISBN 0...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423
Journal (issue)
magnesium ilmenites are associated with the parent rock yielding the pyrope. I N FERENCES The rocks known...southern Africa. Siberia. and rcccntlv in Western Australia. The Koctong garnets arc the onlv indication of...intrusion may be a kimberlite, representing the parent rock of the Beechworth diamonds. ln view of the quality...L.: 3, 85 Wark, D.A.: 1 3 LOCALITY INDEX New South Wales Broken Hill: I , 1 7, 29, 3 7 , 54, 55, 58...Wolfram Camp: 4 1 South Australia Arkaroola: 29 Billcroo H ut: 29 Crocker Well: 29 Dome Rock: 5 , 35, 73
Journal (issue)
3207 A BS TRA C T The small Dome Rock copper mine in South Australia cont ams an unusually wide variety...have also been reported. INTRODUCTION The Dome Rock copper min e is situated about 4 2 k m ( 2 6 miles)...railway about 4 70 km (283 miles) from Ade laide. The copper deposit was not discovered until 1 9 1 7, despite...A few small but prominent h i lls, including Dome Rock itself, protrude from the plain nearby. The lode...an observant prospector who noticed a few small copper-stained stones lying amongst the surface debris
Journal (issue)
p & p per issue. SOUTH AFRICA H.D.C. Heron, P.O. Box 39042, Queensburgh, 4070, South Africa. ARTICLF.S...Schofield. 21 Park Lane, Blaxton, Nr. Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Telephone: (0302) 770248 ADVERTISING...Morphology of Barite Crystals from Silverwood Colliery, South Yorkshire 3 B. A. Prouse Collecting Minerals with...A.Fisher Mineralisation at the Gold� Complex in South Yorkshire S. Uttley Mineral News Minerals oftbeDomeR�...and current mining news. Remember that the working mine or quarry of today will become the collecting and
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293 Wattletree Road, East Malvern, Vic., 3145. Australia. Phone: (03) 509 1666 Fax: (03) 500 9475 All rights...Library of Australia ISBN 0 909223 64 5 Design by Gemcraft Pty. Ltd. Printed in Australia by Ramsay Ware...cover is from the Coober Pedy opal fields, South Australia. The 10-ounce gold crystal on the back cover...Swherland Minerals of the Oxidized Zone of the Dome Rock Copper Deposit, S.A. - W.R. Ryall and E.R. Segnit...- W.D. Birch Zinc Spine! from Broken Hill, New South Wales -1.R. Plimer Vivianite Pebbles from Anglesea
Book
geological circumstances; atacamite, for example, is found in the oxidized zones of copper deposits, often with...Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and in the states...occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association with copper ores, and at Butte, Montana, as well as Colorado...neighbourhood of sulphur¬ bearing agents. Above: Copper from Lake Superior. Michigan. This crystal shows...this example out of proportion Above right: This copper specimen shows dendritic (plant-like) habit and
Book (volume)
considered in numerous publications dealing with rock-forming minerals (amphiboles, micas, clay minerals)...Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Ca2B4O4(OH)7Cl·7H2O Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal...Aksaite 25 MgB6O7(OH)6·2H2O Locality: Chelkar salt dome, Aksai Valley, Aktobe region, Kazakhstan (type locality)...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless
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In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...Calcium Carbon Cerium Chlorine Chromium Cobalt Copper Dysprosium Erbium Europium Fluorine Gadolinium...most shells. Finally, the metals, such as iron, copper and nickel, have a distinctive type of metallic...organized into crystals. Glassy rocks (remember that a rock is a mixture of minerals) are not uncommon as rapidly...are revealed in different colours. D unite is a rock consisting entirely of members of the olivine series
Book (edition)
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...Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, London, England. Rock H. Currier: Jewel Tunnel Imports, Baldwin Park,...Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar Raade: Mineralogisk-Geologisk...to opaque materials imperfectly metallic Gold, copper, tin The luster of diamond, other materials of
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most shells. Finally, the metals, such as iron, copper and nickel, have a distinctive type of metallic...organized into crystals. Glassy rocks (remember that a rock is a mixture of minerals) are not uncommon products...are revealed in different colours. Dunite is a rock consisting entirely of membersiof the olivine...element that always forms cations, such as sodium or copper. To find these minerals you will have to rummage...mineral which occur in almost every type of crustal rock. In the many oxides that have cations consider-
 
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