 | | Report (issue) | | PHOSPHATE MINERALS OF VICTORIA W. D. Birch and D. A. Henry Editors Special photography by Francesco...Francesco Coffa THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA INC. SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 3. 7 Printed by McPherson's...Society of Victoria Inc. P.O. Box 12162, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne. Victoria. 3000 Australia (Tel. (03)...(03) 669 9892). National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 9594573 2 1 In this series: Special...Zeolites of Victoria. W. D. Birch (Editor). Copyright 1993. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria Inc. 11 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Plumbogummitc from Ivanhoe Mine, Northern Territory. Australia. N. Jb. M iner. Mh., 1977. H.2, 4S-S3. THE AU...WESTERN VICTORIA J.A. Webb Department of Geology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia...deposited gypsum within the cave. INTRODUCTION Speleothems (secondary mineral deposits fonned in caves) have...have been recorded from many lava caves, where they occur either within the sediment on the cave floor...Webb, in press). There are over 50 lava caves in western Victoria, but few of them contain speleothems (Webb |  | | Report (issue) | | 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject Index...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...point may be cited from South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst,” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | 50, and $2. AUSTRALITE Nullabor Plain, West Australia. Pure black button-shaped mass, smoky-gray color...modified cubic crystals imbedded in granular white gypsum. The boracite crystals are transparent to translucent...BRANNERITE variety ABSITE Cracker's Well, South Australia. An oxide of uranium, titanium, and thorium with...Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Silver chloride-bromide. Small highly modified...PHOSPHURANY LITE Katherine, Northern Territory Australia. A hydrated phosphate of calcium and uranyl uranium |  | | Catalog/List | | cerussite, galena and linarite .............. Australia New South Wales, Broken Hill Drusy white xls with...orthorhombic prisms imbedded in sulfur and/ or gypsum ................. Utah Minersville, near Milford...ABSITE An oxide of uranium, titanium and thorium Australia Cr.ocker's Well Pitchy brown prismatic crystal...mass ..... BUSTAMITE Calcium manganese silicate Australia l\ew South Wales, Broken Hill Coarse pink cleavages...vein masses on and in xlline dolomite EMI30LITE Australia New South Wales, Broken Hill "Horn Silver Ore" |  | | Journal (issue) | | 162 THE MINERAL COLLECTOR. N odules and masses of gypsum, variety alabaster, were also found. There was...epsomite were observed, as well as soft masses of gypsum as big as one’s two fists, which rapidly hardens...Struve. Struvite is also found at the Skipton Caves, in Australia, resulting from bat guano, and minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................ van der Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ..................Robinson Zeolites from Phillip Island and Flinders, Victoria ..................... 451 by W. D. Birch The..........................466 by W. D. Birch The Mount Isa-Cloncurry mineral f ie ld ....................University of Wollongong Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500 Australia Thomas G. Vallance Department of Geology University |  | | Book | | metamorphosed rock phosphate at Moculta, South Australia Optical constants: Not certain; low birefringence...stalactites and crusts in Petrogale Cave, Madura, W. Australia Optical Constants: W= 1.513, 8= 1.470 Space Group:...117.3° Mode of Occurrence: Occurs associated with gypsum and brushite in a phosphate deposit in a limestone...in many pegmatites in the New England area. In Australia it is found in the Rum Jungle area, Northern Territory...of bat guano, in Murra EI Elevyn cave, Western Australia. Also reported to occur in the guano of Guailape |  | | Journal (entire run) | | 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 was...was found at Mosquito Gully, Wedderburn, Victoria. LIST OF ARTICLES VOLUME 1, NOS. 1 -51 The Contribution...or Gmelinite (or both) in Basalt From Flinders, Victoria - W.D. Birch Apophyllite in Tasmania - FL. Swherland |  | | Journal (issue) | | stalagmites, and other calcite forms observed in caves caused by a photographic flash is very effective... celestine (!х1),copiapite (?), epsomite (xl), gypsum (!х1), halotrichite (?), hexahydrite (+х1), jarosite...to 5 em. This mineral is found inside artificial caves (4th- 1 3 t h centuries), on the surfaces of natural...epsomite, gypsum, sulfur, goethite, malachite, azurite and others, aid are also of interest. Caves. The Crimea...Over 800 karst caves and shafts are known in the Crimean Mountains. Some ofthese caves are among the most |  | | Catalog/List | | here in the 18th C, C lxl £I.SO lx2 £3 2x2 £6 825 GYPSUM, SELENITE NearOxford Good single grey translucent...green Long wave ½" £3 lx½ £5 Zn AsO/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass of black...235 ARDEALITE Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay, Western Australia Fawn powder ,a) gelatin capsule b) sent in lxl...Oklahoma, USA 15 ■ ANGLESITE Broken Hill, NSW. Australia Single red-brown flower-like, replaced by sandstone...- - 815 CORUNDUM SAPPHIREAnakie, Queensland, Australia 683 CELESTITE Brown County, Kansas, USA Blue translucent |  | | Catalog/List | | £5 Zn AsO/4 ½" £3 Ix! £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum...235 ■ ARDEALITE Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay, West Australia Fawn powder ,a) gelatin capsule b) sent in lxl...£3 lx2£5 PbC0/3 142 ■ CHRYSOPRASE Queensland Australia 1053 CERUSSITE Miblad~n Morocco variety of Chalcedony...__ ___ __ CORUNDUM SAPPHIREAnakie, Queensland, Australia 815 Blue translucent cleavage AIO 3mm£3 .:.---------------...:----Page6 163 158 ■ GUSTAVITE 542 228 ■■ GYPSUM GALENA Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria Cube-octahedral |  | | Journal (issue) | | visiting, among others the USA, Canada, Russia, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroes, Poland...activities, visiting the famous Rocquefort Cheese caves, going white water rafting down the Oourbie gorge...formed spectacular steep-sided valleys, gorges and caves. They are a rich source of fossils, and the area...also some exquisite yellow-brown gypsum crystal groups from South Australia. Again it was aesthetics which...Society to make a return visit to the UK and maybe to mount a display of their French minerals ac che 1994 Sussex |  | | Catalog/List | | Ix½__~~ _ .. !~ _!LO-- -- ·- · ~~1 ~0/~ 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE...I x2 £ 12 BcAl O 142 ■ CHRYSOPRASE Quccnslnnd Australia variety of Chalcedony. Compact green nHL~sive...Cumbria CORUNDUM SAPPHIREAnakic, Queenslund, Australia 815 Good smnll brown curved crystnls on doll1111ite...feldspar with pyrite Pb Ag Bi S ½x½ £7 Ix½ £15 825 GYPSUM, SELENITE Near Oxford Good single grey translucent...£8 - - · - - -258 MAGNESITE Rockwell, N.S.W. Australia 624 LAVENDULAN Hilarion Mine , Laurium,Greece |  | | Catalog/List | | green Long wave ½"£3 lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck...fJ':g1EN" ■■ ARDEALITE Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay, West Australia 246 BARYTES Redhill, Surrey s cleavage Fawn powder...feldspar. 1xl£5 lx2£8 2 ■■ CHRYSOPRASE Queensland Australia variety of Chalcedony. Compact green massive lxl£1...O 766 CORUNDUM SAPPHIREAnakie, Queensland, Australia Blue translucent cleavage ~m£3 MO 344 113 CORUNDUM-SAPPHIRE...in Basalt lxl £2.50 richer£5 Zcolitc 152 1031 GYPSUM, SELENITE Near Oxford Good single grey translucent |  | Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, Frondel, Clifford (1951) The System of Mineralogy (7th ed.) Vol. 2 - Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, Ect. John Wiley and Sons, New York. | Book (volume) | | Huron, and Lambton in Ontario. Alter. Anhydrite, gypsum, polyhalite, celestite, dolomite, quartz, hematite...which reacts alkahne on test paper. With soda or gypsum fuses to a transparent bead, which becomes opaque...it may be associated with celestite, anhydrite, gypsum, dolomite, sulfur, millerite, and as a cementing...Harz, Germany. In Italy with native sulfur and gypsum in cavities in marble at Carrara; in ejected blocks...crusts and crystalline particles in anhydrite, gypsum, and halite. Similar substances, loosely ascribed |  | | Report (issue) | | See Garnet Group ANGLESITE Pb S04 Loe.: Ref.: Mount Zechan, Tasmania. Swanson, Howard E., and Fuyat...APHTHITALITE (K, Na) 3 Na(S0 4 )2 Loe.: Ref.: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Winchell, Horace, and Benoit, Richard...Fe"(U02)2 (P04)2 . 8 H20 ( ?) Source: U.S.G.S. (no mount) Ref.: Frondel, Clifford, Riska, Daphne, and Frondel...BAYLEYITE Mg2 U02 (C03)3 . 18H20 Remarks: U.S.G.S. mount Ref.: Frondel, Clifford, Riska, Daphne, and Frondel...BECQUERELITE 2 U03 · 3H20 (?) Remarks: U.S. G. S. mount. Ref.: Frondel, Clifford, Riska, Daphne, and Frondel |  | | Catalog/List | | ANALCIME Taliskcr Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 17 2 Rich mass of...l x1/,£7 ALUNITE ANGLESITE Broken Hill, NSW. Australia Marysvale, Piule County, Utah 1152 15 Good coverage... ARDEALITE Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay, Western Australia 235 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Fawn powder...Brandy Bollie Mine , Yorkshire 94 Queensland Australia 1 2 variety ofChalcedony. Compact green massive...l £3 CORUNDUM SAPPH I R E Anakie, Queensland, Australia 815 Blue translucent cleavage AI O 3mm £3 CORUNDUM-SAPPHIRE |  | | Catalog/List | | uranium cerium titanium oidde Au,: ..11. South Australia Thackeringia Pl!1=c,-11Jc• crystal seclions in...Bydrous calcium sodium aluminum sillcate AutraJJa Victoria, Fllnders SeJectlutroua j" to l·"terminated crystals...wilh greasy luslcr . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 00 GYPSUM A hycl.rntedcalcium sulfate C:inacll Alberta, Nanton...Mercuric øuUide Cal1fonda Contra Collt:i County, Mount Diablo Eall 61åckcryatala and masses on øillceous...lllic clcava[:cs and cryslal pl:nes ........ . Australia 11:ewSoulh Walcs. D cpwaler Rich folialed silvcry-gray |  | | Catalog/List | | ANALCITE Taliskcr Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGI. R JNE 17 Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 2 While crystals...5mm size Pb� £4 Broken Hill, New South Walcs,Australia 658 ANGLESITE good small grey crystal group PbSO/4...1 . 50 2x3 £5 Pb S 1cm £ 1.50 I x I 60p 2x2 £3 GYPSUM, SELENITE Near Oxford GANO PIIYLLlll, Moliue l...OH Ix2£5 IxI D 700 Londonderry Quarry, Wes! Australia LEPIDOI.ITE Purple radiations and masses in feldspar...50 2x2£8 93 1 258 MAGNESITE Rockwell, N.S.W. Australia Pure grey-white nodular mass MgCOO 2 x.2£1.30 |  | | Book | | USSR; as crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone...from Bendigo and Ballarat, Victoria and from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. In the USA gold is often...cinnabar. Localities. Mercury is found at Idrija and Mount Avala, Yugoslavia and near Landsberg, W. Germany...Africa, Angola and Guinea. Other sources are Australia, Borneo, Guyana, Venezuela and Siberia, where...sulphates or from the reduction of sulphates such as gypsum. It is most commonly found in sedimentary rocks |  | | Book | | England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne 3205 Victoria, Australia Nelson Canada 1120...Perroud, Geneve, Switzerland; Jiri Just, Perth, Australia; Richard Thomssen, Carson City, Nevada, USA; Peter... Moculta quarry, Angaston (near), South Australia, Australia. H= 2, Djn=?, 0^= 2.15, VHD 28. Harrowfield...Antarcticite, CaCl2*6H20, B Rhom. Don Juan Pond, Victoria Land, Antarctica. H=?, Djjj= 1.71, D(.= 1.71,...colorless. Petrogale cave, Madura, Western Australia, Australia. H=?, Djj3=?, Dq= 2.34, VHA 14. Bridge, |  | | Book (volume) | | usually Jewellers physical stones. by The mount. but may will not etc. is which confirmed...and in shown well diamonds is face Fig. “Victoria” diamond. (Natural form and and edges. ...faces an are but carats, The fig. rep- “Victoria” crystals have rhombic-dodecahedra lenticular...exposed the historical found also are yet Mount and play and situated Geraes of these of...971 weighed 3 /4 hen’s a South African “Victoria” and 167), some stones compressed 169. Fig |  | | Book | | of mineral species. Ernest H. Nickel Wembley, Australia — aa 4 i | a4 ‘ eS wum iver) {ORE...County, Utah, U.S.A., who found the first braunite. Mount Ochi, Karystos, Greece. Reinecke, T. et al. (1991):...Neues Jahrb. Mineral, Monatsh., Alabaster (massive gypsum) The name is derived from its supposed early source...University of Adelaide, Australia. Moculta quarry, Angaston, South Australia, Australia. From Gk. allaktein...engineer who collected the original specimens at Mount Nyiragongo, Zaire. Sahama, T.G. et al. (1973): Bull |
|
