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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Thorianite
Formula:ThO2
Comments:Porphyry, greisen & Mg-skarn
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Thorianite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:64438
Long-form Identifier:1:3:64438:1
GUID (UUID V4):624226d8-5e3d-4983-9239-1dfac14e534d
References
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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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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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CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS LIPOW Si. ao sé ... CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia Philip Scalisi David Cook VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold...Classic mineral localities of the world, Asia and Australia. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines and...resources—Asia. 2. Mines and mineral resources—Australia. 3. Mines and mineral resources—Soviet Union
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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
Report (volume)
Asia----------------------------------------------------Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica______________________...deposit at Steenkampskraal, in the Van Rhynsdorp district, South Africa, provided most of the free world's...yielded 16,230.7 tons during 1953-56 (Pike, 1958). The mine closed in March 1959 but reportedly was reopened...earths are obtained from rutile-ziroon deposits in Australia and from placer tinmining operations in Malaya...Republic (Egypt)___________ 7 3 80 1 Oceania: Australia 9--------------------------942 1, 510 1, 337 1
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CHALMERS, Cuwrator, Australian Museum, Sydney, AUSTRALIA & ROCK CURRIER, photographer and collector, Ardsley...U.S. A. ye ALBERT CHAPMAN, collector, Sydney, AUSTRALIA Ye M. DUSTERUD, Museum Manager, Mining Museum...stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal
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chalmers, Cura­ tor, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia ^ rock currier, photographer and collector, Ardsley...u. s. a. ^ ALBERT chapman, collector, Sydney, AUSTRALIA ^ M. dusterud, Museum Manager, Mining Museum,...stood atop the "mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal
Report (issue)
-------------------Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica __________ _ Australia ____ --------------...New South Wales _______ _ South Australia ____ -------------------Tasmania ______ ----------------------Victoria...ria ___ ---------------------------_ Western Australia ___ ------------------New Zealand ______ ----...Blue Ridge province _____________ _ Spruce Pine district ____________ Madison County and Haywood County...County _____________________ _ Zirconia district ___________ ----Macon, Jackson, and Clay Counties __ ----
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CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 Australia 14. G.BAR DOSS Y KARSTIC BAUXITES 15. A.W. ROSE...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay)...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite...(Fig. 28-12). The gold deposits in the Georgetown district are of Proterozoic age. From Branch (1966), with
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CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 Australia 14. G.BĂ„RDOSSY KARSTIC BAUXITES 15. A.W. ROSE...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay)...known (e.g. the Montana Tunnels deposit, Obelisk Mine). The former locality contains disseminated pyrite...(Fig. 28-12). The gold deposits in the Georgetown district are of Proterozoic age. From Branch (1966), with
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the...read 0.020. 646 656 6, 658 2, 665 5, for Tasmania read Transvaal. down up up for Sweden read
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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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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
Journal (volume)
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
Journal (issue)
Under war conditions it has proved economic to mine the tin deposits in open workings, either by hand...the lacking infor1nation. It may be desirable to mine some of the ore experimentally to see how the walls...outfits could perhaps be pressed into service to mine out small deposits. If attended by an auxiliary...State with the sole right to search or prospect for, mine or dispose of any uranium or thorium, or, by any...authority of the Minister of Mines, (a) prospect for or mine any uranium or thorium referred to in the schedule
Journal (volume)
103, Cornwall Labour Problems Corocoro Copper District Gfotogy. .Singewald and Berry .... (m.d.) Corocoro...F^lotation Process, Chance's Coal (m.d.) .... Force Crag .Mine, Cumberland (m.d.) .... I'recheville Research Fellowships...India, .\ustralia, etc Ore Resources of South Australia. Ore Resources of the Empire Ore Resources of...College and Degrees Impsonite in Northern West Australia Indian Gold Mines, Recording Output of Indian...Huntington-Heberlcin Ore Concentrator Huntsman Gold Mine, Rhodesia, closed down Hydro-Electric Power for
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Distribution of Elements and Minerals . . 213 Chapter 30 Mount Isa Controversy 161 Chapter 31 The Role of Brines...shales, hornfels and granites of the Harzburg district, showed that the amount of boron decreases from... e. g., the cassiterite ores at Renison Bell, Tasmania: five groups or stages in deposition can be recognized..."telescoped cassiterite-sulfide lodes in Eastern Australia", and states the following: "In these ores arsenopyrite...such as those of Captain's Flat, Roseberry, Tas, Mount Isa, etc., there is ample evidence that the bulk
Book (edition)
in a Mount. For examination under the microscope min~rals may be permanently embedded in a mount, such...the mount the rougher the surface appears. A mineral of high refractive index embedded in a mount of lower...between them and the mount. If the refractive indices of the mineral and the mount are the same, the mineral...refractive index markedly different from that of the mount have we1l-marked dark borders due to the production...those with a much higher refractive index than the mount. Becke Effect. The relative refractive indices of
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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
Book (edition)
• 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
Book (edition)
artificially prepared compounds, some by very rare mine; ;ds, and some have no representative at all. The...in a Mount.-For examinaion under the microscope minerals may be permanently embedded in a mount, such...the mount the rougher the surface appears. A mineral of high refractive index embedded in a mount of lower...between them and the mount. If the refractive indices of the mineral and the mount are the same, the mineral...refractive index markedly different from that of the mount have well-marked dark borders due to the production
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in a Mount. For examination under the microscope minerals may be permanently embedded in a mount, such...the mount the rougher the surface appears. A mineral of high refractive index embedded in a mount of lower...between them and the mount. If the refractive indices of the mineral and the mount are the same, the mineral...refractive index markedly different from that of the mount have well-marked dark borders due to the production...those with a much higher refractive index than the mount. Becke Effect. The relative refractive indices
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
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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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alone, and so important to all who search for or mine or handle ores and minerals, that it should form...trials upon the crude ore as it is delivered from the mine, and of the picked ore, dressed products, and waste...metallurgical operations has often been the salvation of a mine, and has sometimes formed the foundation of a new...calcite, occurring as tufaceous deposits in Nevada, Australia, etc. It ofcen occurs in skeleton crystals. Occurrence...chemical operation. \iVhen found in quantity, thorianite is a valuable source of thoria, but only in Ceylon
 
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