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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Smoky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluoriteⓘ1 photo of Smoky Quartz associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smoky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:772327
Long-form Identifier:1:3:772327:8
GUID (UUID V4):e180f30d-23aa-4800-a43a-ecccf4ea6d85
Nearest other occurrences of Smoky Quartz
47.8km (29.7 miles) ⓘMoina Quarry, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
48.1km (29.9 miles) ⓘAll Nations mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
48.1km (29.9 miles) ⓘDial Range, Central Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
61.8km (38.4 miles) ⓘTrial Harbour Tip, Trial Harbour district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
Gemstone Minerals in Tasmania Department of State Growth Mineral Resources Tasmania Occurrences of Gemstone...Gemstone Minerals in Tasmania (8th edition 2nd printing) Compiled by R. S. Bottrill and W. L. Matthews...November 2019 Mineral Resources Tasmania PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 www.mrt.tas.gov.au ISBN 0...As a result the Crown in Right of the State of Tasmania and its employees, contractors and agents expressly...sources. These include: Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania by W. F. Petterd, 1910 (a revised edition was
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tennessee, Knoxville] at 04:13 19 December 2014 Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado A s virtually...are found in certain pegmatites, granite bodies, quartz veins, and metal deposits. The pockets of pegmatites...certainly one of its premier aquamarine localities, Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, was highlighted...localities, and, when colorless, phenakite can resemble quartz. Phenakite exhibits a Mohs hardness of 7.5–8 and...MINERALS fluorite, the micas and feldspars, and quartz; there appears to be a general association with
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (issue)
F. L. Sutherland & G. Webb Minerals of western Tasmania ................................................the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................der Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ...............................................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
CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS LIPOW Si. ao sĂ© ... 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
Book
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
Book
Printing Co Ltd, Tokyo. National Library of Australia Cataloguing in Publication data Perry, Nance Australian...colourbook series). ISBN 0 589 07012 6. I. Gems - Australia - Identification. I. Perry, Ron.joint author....wish to learn about the minerals and gems of Australia. PREFACE gemmologists, mineralogists in a specialised... It will travel throughout the backblocks of Australia and through the museums of our capital cities...Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. The study of gemstones has gained many adherents
Book
Natural, Cultured and Imitation Alexander E. Fam Quartz Michael O'Donoghue Also availablefrom Butterworth-Heinemann...130 Arab Republic of Egypt 132 Argentina 132 Australia 133 Austria 135 Brazil 135 Bulgaria 155 Canada...Brazil; Ora M.H. Falabella, Brazil; Dr T. Lee, Australia; Sr W. Leite, Brazil; Dr M. Menzies, Canada; Mr...Brazil, Sri Lanka; Jos plateau, Nigeria; Volyn district, Ukraine, and numerous pegmatites throughout the...copper alloy containing about 20% tin. Topaz and quartz are common associates of tin ore, so that early
Report (volume)
.............................................. Quartz............................................. ......................1...................... 48 Australia.................................................and this find has awakened great interest in the district. The demand for authentic information regarding...the writer spent a number of days in the York district, oSchrader, F. C., and Brooks, A. H., Preliminary...search was continued and the first real attempts to mine the tin-bearing gravels were made on Buck Creek
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
South Africa. 24. Belgian Congo. 25. Nigeria. Australia. ‱6. Stanthorpe, Queensland. 27. Heberton, Queensland...N. S. W. 3o. Mr. Bischoff, Tasmania. 3‱. Blue Tier, Tasmania. 32. Heemskirk, Tasmania. x3. Sumatra. ...in Cornwall and Bolivia, and to a lessextent in Tasmania and the Transvaal. As this paper is concernedonly...(Malay States) ................ 54,6oo 55,265 Australia .............................. Banca ...........Intrusive. District. II. Associated Dikes. 6 5 InvadedRocks. Age. Post-Carbonifer- Quartz porphyrya
Book
Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...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
Book
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...frequently recommended mineral—predictably—was white quartz (rock crystal). It was obvious that any selective...importance when it occurred with a white mineral such as quartz or calcite. 5. Color. The shade, hue, and intensity...stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock.
Book
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,...frequently recommended mineral—predictably—was white quartz (rock crystal). It was obvious that any selective...importance when it occurred with a white mineral such as quartz or calcite. 8 J 5. Color. The shade, hue, and...stood atop the "mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock.
Journal (issue)
Newnham 10 Heyington Close, Croydon Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile (03) 9723 5041...Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria CONTENTS Volume 2, Number...Minerals from the Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia B. Beyer & P. Elliott ....................... 57 Heulandite from the Illawarra District, NSW P. Carr, M. Perkins, B. Chenhall, f. Pemberton...Photograph: Cuprite from Spring Creek, South Australia. The crystal is 3.5 mm across. Specimen: South
Journal (issue)
Challenge 62 G&G Micro-World Blue apatite in smoky quartz ‱ Oiled apatite ‱ Acicular troughs associated...Karl Schmetzer San Diego, California Canberra, Australia Petershausen, Germany Edward W. Boehm A.J.A...Janse Andy Shen Chattanooga, Tennessee Perth, Australia Wuhan, China James E. Butler Mary L. Johnson...Otter Wuyi Wang Carlsbad, California Canberra, Australia New York, New York Gaston Giuliani Aaron C...Karl Schmetzer traces the history of the Habachtal mine during the era between World Wars I and II, using
Book
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...are tiny black flecks of 1nica, glassy grains of quartz, and yellow feldspar all forged in the fiery heat...onyx are produced by treating agate, a type of quartz, with heat and a solution of sugar and water. ...also non-gem minerals such as crocoite and rose quartz. Many rocks and minerals are sources of the ores
Book
CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 Australia 14. G.BAR DOSS Y KARSTIC BAUXITES 15. A.W. ROSE...LEVEL C Is equigranular lamprophyre granite, quartz monzonite, diorite £ C 443 H H O H Ctf c/3 O...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...(Ronov and Yaroshevsky, 1969). Tonalité (light quartz diorite) "is the dominant rock type in the continental...batholiths (gabbro, diorite, tonalité, granodiorite, quartz monzonite, granite) having a total silica content
Book
CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 Australia 14. G.BÄRDOSSY KARSTIC BAUXITES 15. A.W. ROSE...IVOLCANICj lamprophyre equigranular g r a n i t e , quartz monzonlte, d i o r i t e O 3 DEEP LEVEL aplite...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...the crust (Ronov and Yaroshevsky, 1969). (light quartz diorite) "is the dominant rock type in the continental...batholiths (gabbro, diorite, tonalite, granodiorite, quartz monzonite, granite) having a total silica content
Report (issue)
Shoalhaven River Gorge, near Tolwong Mine No. 6 Section, Tolwong Mine, Shoalhaven River, near Bungonia ...Tolwong Mine XXIX. — Tolwong Smelting Plant, Shoalhaven River XXX. — Mount Bischoff Tin Mine, Tasmania —View...—View slope XXXI. — Mount 331 ... 344 345 ... ... ... 348 benches on south-east ... .. ...... of Bischoff Tin Mine, Tasmania ... ... 346 .. 354 ... XXXII.— Mount Bischoff Tin Mine, Tasmania—...Tasmania— "Brown Face" XXXIII.— Mount Bischoff, Tasmania— .Milling and Concentrating 78004 -b .308 309
Book
Geological Survey; 52BL, David Huston, Geoscience Australia; 17TR, Marli Miller; 23TR, 48 (in Optical Effects...just three stones picked up on a beach, it is quartz, and yellow feldspar - not surprising that many...them broke down and were made anew in different quartz. Many rocks and minerals are sources of the ores...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
Book (edition)
Statistics - SournH AUSTRALIA . 3 GOLD COPPER Ă© LEAD AND SILVER OTHER METALS . WESTERN AUSTRALIA FOLD ; OTHER...OTHER METALS . TASMANIA GOLD SILVER . CopPpPrER TIN : OTHER METALS : . Statistics New ZearanpD GOLD...Penney : 11.—Profile section across ‘Last Chance”. Mine, Utah 12.—Section of Argentiferous Sandstone bed...Knockmahon, tee 37.—Fragment of lode, Bergmannstrost Mine, Clausthal 38.—“ Pebble,” HuelgoĂ©t. 39.—Section...intersections of joints 52.—Section of “barrel” quartz vein 53.—Ideal section of saddle reefs 54,—Section
Report (issue)
mm. Plain transmitted light. Sample ER 69-3, Hill mine, Cave-in-Rock, southern Illinois fluorite-zinc distt·ict...tiny daughter minerals. One of these is apparently quartz; in the large central inclusion it can be seen...Sample ER 69-3, Hill mine, Cave-in-Rock, southern Illinois fluorite-zinc district. LOWER RIGHT: Photomicrograph...of photograph 0.8Xl.l mm. USNM 96696, Rukuba tin mine, Nigeria. Data of Geochemistry Sixth Edition MICHAEL...----------------------------Inclusions from pegmatites and quartz veins Inclusions from various minerals and rocks
Book
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
Book
SOUTH WALES Cover photo: Quartz - mudstone - stibnite breccia vein. Eleanora mine. Hillgrove (xO.2). Bibliographic...Complex Kookabookra ‱ Bear Hill district Rockvale· Fishington district Deposits in and adjacent to the...Epigenetic deposits ,.. Marengo - Dundurrabin - Dorrigo district Deposits in and adjacent to the Dundurrabin Granodiorite...Taylors Ann district ,... Munga Creek district Granitoid-Related Deposits Guyra . Vralla district Llangolhlin...Granodiorite Mount Duval Adamellite Vralla Granodioirite ,..... Oban - Backwater district ;..........
 
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