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Spessartine from
North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Spessartine
Formula:Mn32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Galenaā“˜24 photos of Spessartine associated with Galena at this locality.
Rhodoniteā“˜10 photos of Spessartine associated with Rhodonite at this locality.
Sphaleriteā“˜4 photos of Spessartine associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Chalcopyriteā“˜4 photos of Spessartine associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Bustamiteā“˜3 photos of Spessartine associated with Bustamite at this locality.
Fluorapatiteā“˜3 photos of Spessartine associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Hedenbergiteā“˜1 photo of Spessartine associated with Hedenbergite at this locality.
Quartzā“˜1 photo of Spessartine associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spessartine data
Locality Data:Click here to view North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (25 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:674780
Long-form Identifier:1:3:674780:0
GUID (UUID V4):fd4e5aec-9ed1-4694-bbf3-3d81690849ed
Localities for Spessartine in this Region
Junction Mine, Block 39, North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Spessartine
0.7km (0.4 miles) ā“˜Junction Mine, Block 39, North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
0.9km (0.5 miles) ā“˜Blackwood opencut, MMM Mine, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
1.9km (1.2 miles) ā“˜CBH Rasp Mine (Rasp Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
2.2km (1.4 miles) ā“˜Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
2.6km (1.6 miles) ā“˜Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
2.7km (1.7 miles) ā“˜Block 10 (ML 10), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
2.7km (1.7 miles) ā“˜Central Mine (Block 9; ML 9), Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
2.8km (1.7 miles) ā“˜No. 3 Lens (No. 3 lead lens), Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
3.9km (2.4 miles) ā“˜Zinc Corporation Mine (ZC Mine), Southern operations mine (Pasminco mine; Perilya mine; Consolidated Zinc Mine; CRA mine; New Broken Hill Consolidated Mine; NBHC Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
15.3km (9.5 miles) ā“˜Melbourne Rockwell mine, Little Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
References
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Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement To The Mineralogical Record, Septemberā€“October 2020 ... Mineral Collections in Australia Organized by Robert Sielecki Designed by Wendell Wilson with Photography...Septemberā€“October, 2020 Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record Septemberā€“October...1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. ā€¢ 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia
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& Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...com/loi/taje20 The mineralogical history of the Broken Hill Lode, NSW Ian R. Plimer a a Department of...& Geophysics , University of New England , Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia Published online: 01 Aug 2007...Plimer (1984) The mineralogical history of the Broken Hill Lode, NSW, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences:
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garnet rocks associated with the Broken Hill Pbā€“Znā€“Ag orebody, Australia I. R. Plimer School of Earth and...Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia Received January 9, 2004; revised version accepted...handling: J. G. Raith Summary The Palaeoproterozoic Broken Hill Pbā€“Znā€“Ag stratiform orebody is intimately associated...considered an indicator to Broken Hilltype Pbā€“Znā€“Ag ore deposits at Broken Hill, Australia (Richards, 1966; Stanton...2000), Cannington, Australia (Walters, 2001; Walters et al., 2002), Gamsberg, South Africa (Rozendaal
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Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA...systems to handheld analyzers for field use. This new capability offers the possibility for using LIBS...[Fe3 Al2 Si3 O12 ], pyrope [Mg3 Al2 Si3 O12 ], spessartine [Mn3 Al2 Si3 O12 ], andradite [Ca3 Fe2 Si3 O12...and spessartine occur primarily in granitic pegmatite (e.g., Hawk Mine, NC, USA; Rutherford Mine, VA...VA, USA; Little 3 Mine, Ramona, CA, USA; Golcando Mine, Minas Gerais State, Brazil) and rhyolite (e.g.
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Invited Review Article A classification of Broken Hill-type deposits: A critical review Paul G. Spry...Associates Pty Ltd, PO Box 740, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia A R T I C L E I N F O A B...Keywords: Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag deposit Broken Hill-type deposits Classification Broken Hill Hill-type Pb-Zn-Ag...grade ore deposits in the world. The Broken Hill deposit, Australia, is the largest accumulation of Pb...because the type example of this class of deposit (Broken Hill) is not hosted in marble or calc-silicate rocks
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Special Reference to Broken Hill, Australia I. R. Plimer The University of New England, Department of...of Geology, Armidale, N.S.W. 235 I, Australia Abstract. Fluorine-bearing minerals are uncommon in submarine...because of the low solubility of CaF2. The Broken Hill (Australia) deposit contains fluorapatite and fluorite...The calcitefluorite-fluorapatite assemblage at Broken Hill indicates that ore deposition was probably from...increase. The abundance of fluorine minerals in the Broken Hill ore and the association o f F and B minerals
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036(2) Z=6 X-ray Powder Pattern: San Valentin mine, Spain. 2.73 (10), 2.53 (9), 1.71 (7), 2.23 (6)...Total 99.55 100.00 (1) Melbourne Rockwell mine, Australia; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO; corresponds...Fe0.24 Mn0.17 )Ī£=1.00 Ti0.99 O3 . (2) San Valentin mine, Spain; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO;...amphibolite-granulite facies (Melbourne Rockwell mine, Australia); in a kyanite-bearing pelitic schist (Death...Association: Almandine-spessartine, ferroan gahnite, rutile (Melbourne Rockwell mine, Australia); zincian ilmenite
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France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London...manganese analog of stilpnomelane, from Franklin, New Jersey ................................ 465 by P...-C. Su A notable rhodonite crystal from Broken Hill, Australia ............469 by A. H. Chapman Palladium...Cassedanne & J. N. Alves Minerals of the Black Pine mine, Granite County, Montana .........................477 by D. Waisman An occurrence of bixbyite, spessartine, topaz and pseudobrookite from Ash Creek near
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BrokenHill-TypePinnacles Pb-Zn-AgDeposit, Western New South Wales, Australia JOANNA M. PARR* Departmentof Geology...Newcastle, Callaghan,Newcastle, NewSouthWales2308,Australia Abstract ThePb-Zn-AgPinnacles depositliesin theProterozoic...ischaracterized by strata- rocks,for example,Broken Hill, New SouthWales BritishColumbia(Hambound orebodies...whichlies 15 km south- However,severalimportantpetrographicand geowestof the BrokenHill orebodyin New SouthWales...quencecomprisingmostlymetasedimentary P.O. Box 136, New South Wales 2113, Australia. andpsammopelitic rocks. 0361-0128/94/1577/778-1354
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Resources, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6014, Australia; thomas.cudahy@c3dmm.com; Tel.: +61-407-662-369...and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia spanning a 30-year history of developments in...formative processes and assist the discovery of new economic mineral systems. Keywords: mineral mapping;...these mineral resources is increasingly reliant on new technologies, including sensors operating from satellites... Ca-poor Feā€“Mnā€“Al chemical series almandineā€“spessartine-pyrope versus Ca-rich Feā€“Al chemical series
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oxycarbonate (PbCO3.PbO) as a mine fire product at Broken Hill, New South Wales THE progressive and controlled...Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales. The Kintore Opencut is a large opencast mine development which...straddles three of the original mining leases at Broken Hill, Blocks 9, 10 and 11. The opencut has been operated...old fill material, rather than in situ, at the north end of the opencut, on the 280 R.L. bench, about...host rock matrix which is a granular quartz spessartine metamorphic rock known locally as "garnet sandstone"
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in, 801. Age determinations: monazite, sphene, South-west Africa, 519; charnockites, Andhra Pradesh,...Almandine, Israel, anal., opt., cell-size, 385; New South Wales, anal., opt., X-ray, 561; Rajasthan, India...46; classification of, lxv, 945. Andamoolca, South Australia, opal, 429. Andalusite, pseudomorphs of kyanite... Auburn, Maine, peristerite, 165. Bakersville, North Carolina, peristerite, 165. BALASUB:aAHI~:ANYAN(M... Hyalophane, Kasoite. Barium-orthoclase, Japan, New Jersey, and Sweden, opt. 508. Barwell meteorite,
 
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