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Galena from
Moonlight Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Moonlight Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:855367
Long-form Identifier:1:3:855367:6
GUID (UUID V4):1fc027b7-3308-4e0e-a2b7-2c056a575dc6
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
21.8km (13.5 miles) Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia
24.9km (15.5 miles) Sebastopol Plateau No. 1 Mine, Sebastopol, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
27.1km (16.8 miles) Ballarat West Goldfield, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
27.4km (17.0 miles) Ballarat Gold Mine, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
28.1km (17.5 miles) Northern Star Mine, Sebastopol, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
28.3km (17.6 miles) Prince Regent Mines, Canadian, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
29.3km (18.2 miles) Ballarat East Goldfield, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
30.5km (18.9 miles) Ballarat Prospecting Mine, Ballarat, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
64.1km (39.8 miles) Staffordshire Reef, Blackwood, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia
86.2km (53.6 miles) Fiddlers Creek Reef, Percydale, Pyrenees Shire, Victoria, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...Group, Nova Scotia, Canada; and Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (Barr, 1980). Combinations of the two depositional...British Columbia, Canada; and Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (Barr, 1980)). These deposits are primarily... Sulfides likely to be present include pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite (Berger, 1986). These...of deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent
Report (issue)
above Sea-level ^l"!^ Tunnel ^n 'I \ /m/3 GOLDEN FLEECE 7L /' 1 L 7 ^^>s nay above Sea/ei'e/...KEEP-IT-DARK WEALTH OF NATIONS TIE INKERMAN WEST DRAKE MINE SECTIONS Camnded and drawn by G.EJLmis, 19 16 Ore...Success I Exchange*, \ V ^ ^0UMBERLAND-s ,^i Golden Lesd P.G.MORGAN. \ PLAN OK, ^t ® Trig- A ...Tertiary Faults Chapter V. 61 62 Structure Victoria Horst Paparoa Horst Inangahua-Grey Graben . ...Fiery Cross Mine Just-in-Time Mine Lone Star Mine . . Specimen HiD Mine Pactolus Mine Painkiller Group
Report (issue)
147°24'W Altered volcaniclastic breccia contains galena, sphalerite, and secondary smithsonite in gossans...lenticular masses of crushed iron-stained quartz with galena and arsenopyrite on dump. Material high in silver...argentiferous arsenopyrite, and probably argentiferous galena. Another lode on property was not explored. Banner...of Narrow stringer of nearly pure argentiferous galena; banded near walls and in large crystals in center...quartz-mica schist contains arsenopyrite, jamesonite, and galena; no data on probable gold and/or silver content
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals found in this quarry are: chalcopyrite, galena, orange colored calcite, colorless hyalite, kaolin...copper mine. Naturally I had to get some fancy copper minerals and we drove over to the mine. In those...those days mine operators were not harassed by insurance moguls and it was possible to get near or into...grade ore and it was not necessary to get into the mine but if I wanted specimens I could go out to the...collecting does not have its 'unexpectations'? In the moonlight all the ore looked cream colored and even the
Report (issue)
said that Colorado does not contain a single copper mine of prominence. Of the counties mentioned in the...following, are described or mentioned below: The Sedalia mine, the Independence and Copper King mines, and the...the main subject of this description. The Gold Bug mine is on a quartzfilled fissure following a dike of...Fremont County. SEDALIA MINE. Location, History, and production. The Sedalia mine is situated in the first...mines of Colorado. During the last two years the mine has shipped about 400 tons per month. Developments
Report (volume)
Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor...Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo, and from the Eldorado mine, Great Bear Lake, Canada. The Shinkolobwe deposit...Portugal; and the deposits at Radium Hill, South Australia. Many concepts regarding the geology of uranium-bearing...Schuiling, H. J., 1930, The structure of the Kambove mine: Internat. GeoL Gong., 15th, South Africa 1929,
Report (volume)
Jay Gould mine and mill..._____________ 76 9. Quartz and lamellar calcite ore, Jay Gould mine.-._________...and vertical section of ore bodies in Jay Gould mine.... 84 11. 12. 13. 14. Quartz and lamellar calcite...district.__________________ 92 Ore from New Era mine.._-----_---_-_--__----_--_-_--__ 116 A, Crumpled... Map of Golden Messenger dike and associated quartz veins.. 132 19. Plan of workings, Golden Messenger...Messenger mine.________________ 148 20. A, Outcrop of quartz vein at head of Montana Gulch; B, Stope in Golden
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular, malachite...malachite, powellite, and scheelite. Arkansas mine, Seven Devils district: grossular. Blue Jacket claim...and stilbite. Copper Bo~' mine, Seven Devils district: epidote. Helena mine (reportedly just northwest...northwest of the Peacock mine at the present site of a small open pit but also reported to be about 1 mile northwest...ilmenite, magnetite, monazite, and zircon. Peacock mine (also South Peacock), Seven Devils district, in
Report (issue)
Europe, South Africa, northern Canada, South Australia, and, to a limited extent, the United States....Radium lode-was first found in the South Terras mine in 1873 (Robertson and Dines, 1929, p. 147). Penrose...of ore was sold up to 1907 from the South Terra.s mine and that about 576 tons of uranium ores was produced...Uranium also was known to occur in the Leyden Coal mine~ Jefferson County, Colo., as early as 1875 (Berthoud...in the conterminous United States is to the Rajah mine, known earlier as the Copper Prince ( Briiyn, 1955
Book (edition)
Locality • Edith River Topaz Locality 20 2. Victoria River Downs Region...................................... • Helen Springs Amethyst Locality • Moonlight Rock Hole Locality • Tennant Creek Government...Webbs Mica Mine — Painted Canyon Mine — Butcher Bird Mine — Stones Mica Mine — Benstead Mine 31 1. —... — Spotted Tiger Mine — Kismet Mine — Mica Mines in the Mount Palmer Environs — A Tourmaline Locality...Almandine Garnet Locality — Rex Mine — Disputed Creek Asbestos Deposit — Central Mine — Two lolite Localities
Report (issue)
Warren (Bisbee) mining district, which includes this mine, yielded 167,242,000 tons of ore from 1880 to 1981...District. Douglas (Ash Peak) District . . . Dragoon (Golden Rule) District . Hartford (Hauchuca Mountains)...(Chiricahua) District . . • . . . Cochise and Dragoon (Golden Rule) Districts Dos Cabezaa-Tevtston Districts...does not attempt to list every name used for the mine nor every owner or operator, including present owners...worked extensively until the 1900's. The Hilltop mine, the main producer of the district, was first operated
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
Report (issue)
Frontispiece: Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection...page 242) Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with Conichalcite Gold,... Round Mountain Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale district Quartz epimorph...Meikle Mine Malachite and Azurite, Aurichalcite with Hemimorphite Azurite Barite, Meikle Mine Barite...Northumberland Mine Barite, Rosebud Mine Barite with Orpiment inclusions Calcite, Getchell Mine Robinson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hg, Mo, Sb, W McDermitt caldera Kings RiÕer Moonlight Mine none none Bretz – Opalite Aurora none 7...Subarea, Depositrtype 200,000 kg ? Lucky Lass Mine 24,000 kg ? Steens Mountain none negligible...Delongchamps Dogskin Mountain Peterson Mountain Buckhorn Mine Cornelia C urn, cof; aut, abernathyite, uranospinite...sarsenopyrite, ccps chalcopyrite, cn s cinnabar, gn s galena, ma s marcasite, py s pyrite, res realgar, spssphalerite...Geology ReÕiews 16 (2000) 1–40 Lakeziew White King Mine 5 6 U Th Ag a As a Au† Bi a Cs McDermitt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as they are intermingled. "Next, it seems the galena formed. This lead is the main bulk of the specimen...more joined together and therefore larger. This galena is a dull type. It is interesting that some lead...pyrite (tiny cubes), formed on the drusy quartz, galena and sphalerite. Also drusy quartz again formed...patches on the surface of the galena in places. "Lastly, a few small golden caleite xls, formed. What an...not to mention small quantities of gold, silver, galena, sphalerite, and other minerals, are there for
Report (issue)
Frontispi ece: Oliven i te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith...inclusions Bolt½'OOdite Calcite, Meikle Mine Calcite, Getchell Mine Callaghanite Cassiterite and Hema tile...Martha Mine Gold, Humboldt Mountain Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Gold, Round Mountain Mine Grossular...Quarry Mine ()pal after wood Opal, faceted Orpin1ent, Getchell Mine Orpiment, 'twin Creeks Mine Powellite
Report (issue)
---Copper Canyon mine (9) - - - --------Iron Canyon mine (17)·-------------N evada mine (22) ____ ----...-------------Wilson-Independence mine (6) _______ _ Tomboy mine (4) _____ -- -----------Minnie mine (8)-------------------Independence...(8)-------------------Independence mine (18) _-----------Western Lock mine (10) __ --------- -- In Page B20 20 21...area-Con. Gold Cash (No Money) mine (7) _ _ _ _ _ B53 Silver King mine (19)_______________ 53 Monitor...(12)__________________ 53 Buzzard mine (13)----------~------53 Other workings in the Buzzard mine area (Nos. 14, 15)_________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Magdala Lode System, Stawell, Southeastern Australia: Structural Style and Relationship to Gold Mineralization...Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia Abstract Gold mineralization in the Magdala...the Paleozoic Lachlan fold belt of southeastern Australia (Fig. 1) have produced approximately 2,500 metric...correlations between different gold deposits in Victoria. Recently published 40 Ar/39Ar data sets (Bucher...integration of the different gold deposits in western Victoria into a unified framework; however, much of the
Report (issue)
WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R. J...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never...DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces ......................................... Whim Creek mine ...................................................................................... Mons Cupri mine ...............................................
Book
Survey Report 102 Industrial minerals and rocks of Victoria I. W. McHaffie & R. W. Buckley 1995 Geological...Survey Report 102 Industrial minerals and rocks of Victoria I. W. McHaffie & R. W. Buckley 1995 Bibliographic...and rocks of Victoria. Geological Survey of Victoria Report 102.  Crown (State of Victoria) Copyright...Geological Survey of Victoria ISSN 0817 4725 ISBN 0 7306 7474 6 Keywords: Victoria, industrial minerals...purchased from: Information Victoria, 318 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000. or Business Centre
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 4. Industrial...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
explored for veins. The veins at Favona, Martha, and Golden Cross (Empire vein), combined with a resource at...0361-0128/07/3681/817-23 Mexico: Conrad et al., 1992; Golden Cross, New Zealand: Simpson et al., 2001; Comstock...Coromandel Group (L. Miocene) diorite intrusives Golden Cross Komata Manaia Hill Group Karangahake (Jurassic)...WAIHI, NEW ZEALAND Wharekirauponga N Maratoto Golden Cross Komata Martha Jubilee Favona 6,420,000...4–6) resulted in the discovery of the concealed Moonlight vein in 1997 (Weedon, 1999, 2000). Continued exploration
Report (issue)
yet for the most part undeveloped. The Big Hurrah mine, in the Solomon district, produced gold from 1903...shipments of gold ore have been made from the Sliscovich mine, on Manila Creek, in the Nome district, but these...published later. GOLD. SLISCOVICH. The Sliscovich mine, near the head of Manila Creek, has been described...not be elaborated. The latest shipment from this mine was made in the fall of 1915, 1 Chapin, Theodore...the designation of the mine as an antimonygold mine, rather than an antimony mine. CALIFORNIA. The California
Book (edition)
Kong) Ltd for Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria 3053 U.S.A. and Canada: ISBS Inc., Portland, Oregon...mining, but that definition has become too narrow. Australia in the 1960s found oil and natural gas and phosphate...September 1968 PREFACE For more than a century Australia has been one of the world’s important mining countries...and base metals that were mined vigorously in Australia. It also touches on iron because Australia’s steel...industry was nursed and nourished by a silver-lead mine. It omits coal, for that industry is and was radically
Book
found in situ. A leader of this ore occurs in the galena lode lately discovered at Tui Creek , near Te Aroha...country becoines opened up by tracks and roads. Galena - lead sulphide - exists on Cape Colville Peninsula...CRUSHING -WORKS, SKIPPER'S, OTAGO PHENIX QUARTZ -MINE - SECTIONAL ELEVATION MR. JOHN EWING'S CLAIM , VINEGAR...Ross UNITED COMPANY'S MINE - SECTION OF MAIN SHAFT .. Ross UNITED COMPANY'S MINE-ELEVATOR FOR LIFTING...THAMES MINES KAPANGA MINE , COROMANDEL 296 298 TELEPHONE (LATE UNION BEACH ) MINE , COROMANDEL PRINCE
 
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