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Muscovite from
St John's Quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view St John's Quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:839125
Long-form Identifier:1:3:839125:4
GUID (UUID V4):ba38a125-8fe7-40b7-875d-5b08dcf780f5
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
2.4km (1.5 miles) Tom's Quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
16.8km (10.5 miles) Moculta Phosphate Quarry, Penrice, Barossa Valley, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
18.3km (11.4 miles) Gomersal Mine, Gomersal, Barossa Valley, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
36.1km (22.4 miles) Australian Industrial Minerals mine (A.I.M.; Normandy; Reservoir; Springfield; Warren; Mount Crawford Clay; PM 13), Williamstown, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
36.6km (22.7 miles) Para River South, Barossa and Para Wirra Goldfields, Williamstown, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
37.9km (23.5 miles) Para Wirra Mica Mine (Para Wirra Mica Deposit), Mount Crawford Forest Reserve, Williamstown, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
38.3km (23.8 miles) Mount Crawford Forest Reserve, Williamstown, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
39.6km (24.6 miles) Sailors Gully, Mount Crawford Forest Reserve, Williamstown, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
50.0km (31.1 miles) Gumeracha Quarry, Gumeracha, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
58.9km (36.6 miles) Kitticoola Mine (Great Wheal Orford; Plush and Omond; PM 53; Reedy Creek; Tungkillo), Palmer, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
References
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Catalog/List
black crystal sections about 1 ins long in Felspar.(St Hilaire Quebt~ Canada) 1x2ins 60p 2x? f.1.20 3 ...2x4 !1.20 19 ANDALUSITE rich pink æ;ss~s ~ith Muscovite or Quartz. (Cc1brac20 ;:ir,hc 20 P.'.'\GrA0 ...80;:i 14 ALURGITE (variety of Muscovite) red fi1icaeousscales on matrix a (St M~rcel, Val d'Aosta Italy)...BERYL pure yellow green massive (Egebeck, N.S.W. AUSTRALIA) 1x1 60p 1x2 fl.10 2x2 f2.40 53 BERYL pure blue...bottle 3.5 xlcm.(MoorbaCave Jurien Bay, West Australia) t3.60 76 BUDDINGTONITE pure pale fawil massive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
George Hobbs close to the north line of Sec. 3, T 2 0 S , R7E. (a little south of Pleasant Grove Church)...Erin occurrence is approximately 2V2 miles due north of Pleasant Grove Church." Arizona—Albert L. Fritz...Please Send Them In. calcite from the West End quarry, Inyo Co., Calif., and the other is a bluishwhite...(The dunes extend also into Alamosa Co. to the south). The sample is a dark brown and reddish fine-grained...oligoclase, anorthite), quartz, mica (biotite, muscovite) obsidian and gold??? Who would suppose that Colorado
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
submarine fan and slope origin (Conception and St. John's Groups; 4-7 km thick), and (3) coarsening-upward...exposed primarily on shoreline outcrops in and around St. Mary's Bay. The formation is sedimentologically...Shoal (Lilly, 1965, 1966), 200 km southeast of St. John's, have revealed mixtite layers that have also...the Gaskiers Formation would extend 125 km north and south, and 275 km east and west (Anderson and King...including the British Isles, Africa, Australia, North America, China, South America, and elsewhere (Hambrey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clerkenwell figures as a flat open space lym~ beyo~d the north-west, limits of the City walls. So it was in Roman...position of St Sepulchre's Church) still leaving Clerkenwell as open ground to the north. In Norman times...Clerkenwell and a broad plateau emerges to the north of the undulating surface of the ground beneath...of the Fleet River. Emerging into the open just south of Mount Pleasant, !he Underground hereabouts preserves...Clerkenwell contrasts markedly With the ~Istnc.ts the south and west in that grand scale pubhc buildings are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kingston, Ontario, Canada; eALS Geochemistry, North Vancouver, Canada; fUT Dallas, Portland, OR, USA...et al. 2007) and Asmara mineral districts in the south-central Nubian Shield, to about 700 Ma in the eastern...Mineralization at the Rabathan deposit is localized in a north-plunging fold hinge with massive and disseminated...calculated reserves of the Rabathan R4 prospect at 1.5 Mt grading 2.3% Cu, 0.03% Zn, 285 g/t Ag, and 0.16 g/t...combined reserves of the R4 and R3 prospects at 2.1 Mt grading 2.5% Cu, 0.5% Zn, 1.5 g/t Ag, and 1.2 g/t
Journal (issue)
Branch: C. L. Hundy, F.G.A. North- West Branch: M. P. Gayton, F.G.A. South Yorkshire & District Branch:... Jewellery Valuation Centre, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia The Jewellery Valuation Centre (or, to give it...Valuation Centre and Gem Testing Laboratories of Australia) is a commercial laboratory set up in September...dramatically with the type of lighting. Under simulated north light (G.I.A. Diamondlite) the colour was a fairly... 8 J. Gemm., 1980, XVII, 1 found at Tsumeb, South West Africa. Named after the Austrian mineralogist
Catalog/List
just south of Droitwich. National Grid Reference [SO 875 618]. Post Code is WR9 0AH. From the north, leave...have gone slightly too far. If travelling from the south, leave the M5 at junction 6, take the A4538 through...worked initially in the Midlands, but in 1981 moved north to take up an opportunity on Tyneside at International...15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon. South Molton. [SS 652 290]. Ex Keat's collection...Just, Cornwall. [SW 368 346]. 130 fathom level, South Lode. Ex N.Carruth. SW.A8 Cassiterite - Pendarves
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
insulated circular area of mountains occupying the south of Cumberland, together with the adjacent parts...THE GEOLOGY OF North Lancashire and Westmorelalld. The mountains are unusually lofty for England, and...parallel of St. Bee's Head, divides the country pretty equally, the waters to the north flowing into...into the Solway, those to the south in the direction of Morecambe Bay. The northern area, with which we are...with Skiddaw form the third mass. From south by west to north the lowlands of Lancashire and Cumberland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
miles out of Globe, Ariz."—on label. Globe, in south Gila County, is in central Arizona. ARKANSAS —•...crystals. These are from the Jeffrey Stone Quarry in North Little Rock, Ark."—gift from Woodrow Bettis...of the smaller crystals are doubly terminated. North Little Rock, in central Pulaski County, is in central...specimen from Duane Leavitt, 38 Southwell Ave., South Portland, Me. 816 xline—crystalline xled—crystallized...label. The specimen consists of tiny silvery muscovite flakes, white albite, and smoky quartz. Acton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
northwestern Laurentia and basins in North America, East Australia, and China F. Furlanetto, D.J. Thorkelson...northwestern Laurentia and basins in North America, East Australia, and China, Gondwana Research (2016)...northwestern Laurentia and basins in North America, East Australia, and China NU Authors: Furlanetto...Resources Canada, Geological Survey Canada, 601 Booth St, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0E8, Canada AC CE P Davis W.J...Resources Canada, Geological Survey Canada, 601 Booth St, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0E8, Canada Gibson H.D. : Simon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have been rewarded by the discovery of up to ∼200 Mt of copper if subeconomic (Cu≥1 wt.%) occurrences...occurrences are included (Cailteux et al. 2005) and >8 Mt of cobalt (Misra 2000). These figures define the CACB...“Katanga Copperbelt”) includes deposits located at the north of the DRC–Zambia border, whereas deposits to the...and Cailteux (1999), and Selley et al. (2005) south of this border belong to the second part of the...al. 2009). The Lufilian Arc consists, from north to south, of four distinct tectonic zones (Fig. 1; Porada
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
softer and more yellowgreen peridots of Zabargad (St. John's Island) in the Red Sea. Possibly the rarest of...common in schisttype deposits (e.g., in the Urals, South Africa, and Austria); but they have also been noted...alpine-type deposits in the vicinity of Hiddenite, North Carolina. By far the greatest number of crystals...aquamarine found near Hiddenite, North Carolina. After W. E . Hidden, Notes on North Carolina Minerals, American...given in table 2. Table 2. Beryl Refractive Index Ranges (Na Light) Variety Aqua and other pale varieties
Report (issue)
Bookstores: HALIFAX 1683 Barrington Street MONTREAL 640 St. Catherine Street West OITAWA 171 Slater Street.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fatima quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemin des Buttes quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....collecting on the Island: St. John's - Channel- Port aux Basques White Hills quarry . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite population seems to be transitional between muscovite and rare-element clases. Differences in age, crustal...correspondre ~t une transition entre les types )t muscovite et ~ ~lfiments rares. Les diff&ences d'~tge, de...rpaH14Tb~ (Bo3pacT 2600--2400 MmlaHor~oB neT) B cepI~mt ByaKarmTOB a oca~OqHblX nopoj1 BJlOnb r p a m ~ IlnyTO140BblXTea...Abukuma-type metamorphic facies series ( - 4-9 kb). Muscovite class generated by partial melting and/or restricted...Barrovian-type terranes ( - 5-8 kb); source of muscovite and ceramic industrial minerals. - Rare-element
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Geology of South-West Jersey, Channel Islands by F. A. HENSON Received 7 July 1954; read 4 February...REFERENCES DISCUSSION 291 291 292 293 ABSTRACT: South-west Jersey is formed of a granite complex emplaced...biotite-hornblende granite in contact with the sediments of the St. Aubin area; (ii) the older biotitehornblende granite...PreCambrian sediments and granites alike in north-south and east-west directions. Miea lamprophyres are...are distributed sporadically. In the St. Aubin area the fine-grained marginal granite. characterised
Book (edition)
Other geographical abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river)...Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin. (peninsula), St. (Saint), Ste. (Sainte). Recent developments in many...the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)...of pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For...6(5) - 5.8(4) - low-grade high-pressure quartzite on Mt. Ochi. near Karystos, Euboia, and near 3.77(8) -
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extremity lies on the same parallel of latitude as Mt. Alkhornet at the entrance to Ice Fiord, and its...being attained near Pt. James Murray, and also south of Ferrier Haven. Its area is approximately 270...the western coast region of Spitsbergen. These ranges are strongly contrasted, by reason of their spiry...above sea-level. The hills reappear in the extreme south, but do not attain a great elevation. The mountain...northern extremity of the island, Vogel Hook, to Mt. Rudmose, and consists of hills reaching an average
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the central part of Alabama. Near Odenville, St. Clair Co., Ala. is a shallow copper prospect. Malachite...Knoxville, Tenn. ARIZONA—Richard Bideaux, 2521 E. 8th St., Tucson, Ariz., sent us a clipping from the Phoenix...out and report later." The Strickland feldspar quarry (or mine) on Collins Hill, near Portland, is one...Strickland Quarry, Conn." pp. 131-144). Long idle, the announcement that the Strickland quarry is being...teeth. These have been pumped up by dredges from St. John's River (near Mayport, Fla.,) when deepening it
Journal (issue)
QUARRY .................................................Is Received Editor R & M: Your "Chips from the Quarry" in the February, 1943, issue was a chip with lots...rainy, foggy, and depressing. "Thence by Steamer to St Lawrence. Some times as much as 2 weeks between Steamers...will find St. Lawrence, one of Newfoundland's numerous "Outports", as they are called. St. Lawrence is...55 ° 55' W. Long.) . Many years ago the natives of St. Lawrence had noticed the presence of "pretty stones"
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Front zone, coastal Labrador, Canada J.V. Owen (St. John's, Nfld., Canada), R.D. Dallmeyer (Athens, Ga...., U.S.A.), C.F. Gower and T. Rivers (St. John's, Nfld.. Canada I ......................................W. Sheraton and L.P. Black (Canberra, A.C.T., Australia) ...............................................(Clermont-Ferrand, France) and V.J. Wall (Clayton, Vic., Australia) ...............................................in eastern Australia W.J. Sivell ( Kingswood, N.S.W., Australia ) and J.B. Waterhouse (St. Lucia, Qld
Book
Ordovician and Carboniferous rocks in the area north of Ullswater. Upper Carboniferous Coal Measures...District , the hematite ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A...of the extensive hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation...within the Lake District granites or the Triassic St Bees Sandstone was deposited in veins in the Lower...hematite in the Carboniferous Limestone of west and south Cumbria. Although small amounts of ore were obtained
Report (issue)
'-TTTCLINE, PLATE I (.Fro11tispiece) L570 LOOKING SOUTH-EAST FROM BROC'KHURST ' Natural Environment Research...which lies south of the Yorkshire border. Apart from small areas in the north-east and north-west mapped...together with that provided by private mining firms, quarry owners, water undertakings, drilling contractors...Geological Survey Office, Director Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, S.W.7 16May 1966 ••• 111 •...lateral changes in limestone facies in the area south of the Gulf Fault, expressed as a reconstructed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Klamath River, California George L. Goodrich, Box 124, Mt. Shasta, Calif., has sent in a number of sand samples...Penn. This comes from Baker's Haulover Beach, near North Miami, Dade Co., Fla. It is a coarse brownish sand...Beach, located on the Sunny Isles several miles north of the city of Miami Beach, gets its name from the...consists chiefly of dark brown From the head of St. John's River, at limonite pseudo after pyrite cubes...Ocean) have been sent in by Roy M. Fitts, 39 E. Elm St., Yarmouth, Me. This is a coarse brownish sand. It
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Archean Li-Cs-Ta type pegmatites of Western Australia Lillian A. Kendall-Langley, Anthony I.S. Kemp...from Archean Li-CsTa type pegmatites of Western Australia, LITHOS, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019...data from Li-Cs-Ta pegmatites across Western Australia, that vary in age, host lithology and geodynamic...from Archean Li-Cs-Ta type pegmatites of Western Australia 3 4 Lillian A. Kendall-Langley*, Anthony I....Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, 6 6009, Australia 7 8 *Corresponding author: 9
Book
480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia Nelson Canada 1120 Birchmount Road Scarborough...Formed from Surface Water: 19 The Opals of Australia PART II Gemstones of Igneous-Hydrothermal Origin...129 The Diamond Deposits of Argvle, Western Australia Index 141 FOREWORD Each gem deposit-whether...surlace waters, focusing on the opal deposits of Australia. Part II of this book is devoted to those gem... Egypt and the new find at Argyle in Western Australia are used as examples. It is worth noting that
 
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