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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chrysotile
Formula:Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4
Comments:Porphyry, greisen & Mg-skarn
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysotile data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:64382
Long-form Identifier:1:3:64382:3
GUID (UUID V4):a077c133-f3c1-432d-aa8e-4b76b049b99b
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysotile
18.8km (11.7 miles) ⓘLord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
45.2km (28.1 miles) ⓘSerpentine Hill asbestos mines, Serpentine Hill, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
45.3km (28.1 miles) ⓘTunnel Hill Quarry, Serpentine Hill, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
48.0km (29.8 miles) ⓘNevada Creek, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
49.2km (30.6 miles) ⓘRazorback mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
50.0km (31.1 miles) ⓘDundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
50.9km (31.6 miles) ⓘStichtite Hill, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
62.4km (38.8 miles) ⓘNickel Reward Mine, Trial Harbour district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
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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
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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
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France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony...Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas...Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Benitoite, Gold L.A. County $12 Museum, Himalaya mine $12 (Brazil), Bosch
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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,...Philippines... Turkey 2 1 1 4 1 1 5 1 1 2 2 21 Australia 27 Tasmania 13 New Zealand 2 Bougainville.... 1 Fiji
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+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia andℱ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...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...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
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Times, Singapore ; and journals in India and Australia—a course was pursued from South Africa through...through Ceylon, India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. In the period mentioned... some of the minor gold and copper fields of Australia, which may be responsible for more valuable contributions...Introduction CHAPTER I Mink Labotjb 1. Census of mine employees.—2. Socialistic Unionism.—3. Premium on...French company.—10. Tronoh mines.— 11. Batu Gajah district.—12. Gopeng hydraulicking.—13. Pioneer dredges
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early-19th century geological map of the Peak District by John Farey 69 Front cover: The apron reef...Mercia Mudstone at the opencast pit of Bantycock Mine, at Balderton, south of Newark. Photos by David...metalliferous mineral wealth Tim Colman Abstract: Australia is a continent with substantial metalliferous...been a number of mining ‘booms’; the early South Australia copper and Victorian gold rushes were largely...acquiring Australian mining operations and prospects. Australia now hosts four world-class mid-Proterozoic lead-zinc
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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
Report (volume)
rock types 133 Cross section through the Kalavos district Cyprus showing relationship of massive sulfide...based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes...represents an individual deposit (or, rarely, a district), cumulated in ascending grade or tonnage. Where...government believed might someday be economic ta mine. Stratiform deposits of large areal extent, such
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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
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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
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in the United States, but a lso in Canada and Australia. The gold rush to California that started in 1848...and led to other important discoveries. As in Australia and Canada, food and shelter were needed for a...considered to be a natural accumulation of useful mine ra l materials that can be profitably extracted...one te nds to flow. At the Dunkin mine of the Breckenridge district, Colorado, the Dunkin vein , wh ic...after it passed into shale (Fig. 2-4). In the same mine several le nticul a r ore shoots are separated by
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maintain ore reserves, and in the proper location of mine workings to avoid caving ground. In the future he...occurrence of gold in quartz veins in the Krissites district, Greece, later described by Diodorus. Theophrastus...descriptions. He also tells us that Hannibal had a silver mine, named the Baebulo, in southern Spain, in a mountain...precipitated them in fissures, was later taken up by Bischoff (1847) and put forward as a reasoned theory of...amount of gold. For example, the Alaska Juneau gold mine mined with profit ores that contained only 0.00016
Journal (volume)
Output of Minerals Alaska Perseverance Alexo Nickel Mine 82 ^224 *208 11 (m.d.) Mines Co Aluminium Alloys...Rhodesia Asbestos in South Africa Asbestos in Tasmania Ashanti Mine, Falls of Ground at Ashcroft, E. A., Potash...Copper Producers' Association Australia, Labour Conditions in Australia, Platinum Occurrences in Avino...Barbadoes, Oil Prospects in 43 (m.ii.) Barberton District, Geology of 377 Barnes, W., Iron Ore in the Midiands"...Report"." 273 ) Basset Mine Basset Mines !.!!!."....'...*..'..."......... Bauchi Mine, Nigeria Bauxite in
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Dredging A. L. Hali {m.d.) Asbestos in Barberton District [m.d.) .... Asbestos Mining in Quebec Report Ashanti...J M., on Keeley Mine Bengal Iron Company's New Capital {m.d.) .... Bentong Tin Mine, Dredging at Report...324 Bottomley, Horatio, Sentenced Braden Copper Mine, Geology of Lindgren and Bastin (>«.<;.) . *308...Manufacture in {m.d.) .... 103 Britannia Copper Mine, Mining Methods of Report 257 British Aluminium...Ore at 198 383 186 255 6 Bwana M'Kubwa Copper Mine Calloose, Petition for Winding-up Cam & Motor
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miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...mining in the 1970s, Australia has become the world's leading producer. Australia is also a major producer...particularly in the Ojuela result of some chemical Mine in Durango State. reaction that has occurred Significant...temperatures in volcanic rocks (New South Wales, Australia). Below: A white vein of a/unite interspersed...locations worldwide: Bullah Delah, New South Wales (Australia); Lazio, Tolfa and Tuscany (Italy); Almeria (Spain);
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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
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rocks — Acid sulphate waters in igneous rocks — Mine waters of sulphate type —Sodium carbonate waters...Asbestos Amphibole asbestos Serpentine asbestos (chrysotile) Uses Ores of copper, lead, vanadium, and uranium...amygdaloids The veins Mineral association Origin Mine waters Rock alteration Mining and smelting operations...telluride of region, district district district district district district Nevada. CHAPTER XXV...Nevada — The gold-quartz veins the Victoria, Australia — New South Wales and Queensland — Nova replacement
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‱ t --‱- """"" ' The Lornex copper-molybdenum mine and plant, Highland Valley, British Columbia. (By...measurements have been retained in specific cases such as mine levels when measured in feet, values of gold and...development of vast mineral resources, such as ,Russia, Australia, and Brazil. It is no accident that great industrial...developing an annual ton of new copper capacity from mine through the refinery without intrastructure costs...fold in three years. As an example, the " Surface Mine Control and Reclamation Act,' ' which was initially
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Pirajno Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia Foreword by Peter A. Cawood 13 Geological...Survey of Western Australia Franco Pirajno Geological Survey of Western Australia 100 Plain St. East...East Perth WA 6004 Australia franco.pirajno@doir.wa.gov.au ISBN: 978-1-4020-8612-0 e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8613-7...since 1993, the Geological Survey of Western Australia. He has held visiting professorships at vii viii...peer-reviewed papers and 19 geological maps in Western Australia, Namibia and Greenland. Throughout his career
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are not likely to underestimate the role of the mine and of the miner in the modern industrial world...brought to mind by reference to a coal mine or a copper mine is that of a vast labyrinth of underground...is — : INTRODUCTION 3 Yet today the term "mine" may be applied with equal justice to the great...producing oil or gas well can be referred to as a mine in the strict usage of that term, yet each carries...Throughout ony. the text the writer will use the terms "mine" and "mining" in the broadest sense, including
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Metallurgy of Copper in 1905. Bell, Robert N. State Mine Inspector, Idaho. Lead in Idaho. Gold and Silver...Engineer, London, England. Gold Mining in Western Australia. Hutchins, J. P. Consulting Mining Engineer, New...Duluth, Minn. Formerly Superintendent, Cabin Branch Mine, Virginia. and Mining Petroleum. Paul, James...Brewster County, Texas. Rice, Claude T. W. Chief Mine Inspector, Charleston, W. Va. Coal and Coke in...Michigan—Dividends—Disbursements—Mine Reports—Missouri—Mon¬ tana—Mine Reports—Nevada—New Mexico (by Charles
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~@IL1Lm«:1rn@INJ @n: @@@IUf. cARLYlE Roselynne J. Pill 19 Mount Hood Road Brookline 46 Massachusetts .. ECONOMIC...maintain ore reserves, and in the proper location of mine workings t o avoid caving ground. In the future...alluYial n1ining in pain: " Gold is not only dug from mine , but likewise collected; .. and containing gold...produced by "·ashing than by digging it fro1n the mine..." (H. C. Han1ilton and \\7 . Falroner.) ).lany...descriptions. He also tells us that Hannibal had a .. ilYer mine, named the B aebulo, in southern Spain, in a mountain
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Robinson, 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of...discoveries in the famous alkaline pegmatites of Mount Malosa in the late 2000s include specimens showing...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the
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