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Calcite from
West Head, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria, Australia


Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view West Head, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:89511
Long-form Identifier:1:3:89511:6
GUID (UUID V4):ee8763bd-b63a-4968-a79c-74cd5f13f12f
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
3.5km (2.2 miles) Little Bird Rock, Flinders area, Victoria, Australia
5.5km (3.4 miles) Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria, Australia
8.0km (5.0 miles) The Nobbies, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia
8.9km (5.5 miles) Point Sambell, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia
12.3km (7.6 miles) Kennon Head, Kitty Miller Bay, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia
12.3km (7.6 miles) Cape Schanck, Flinders area, Victoria, Australia
12.3km (7.7 miles) Watt Point, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia
12.4km (7.7 miles) Cape Schanck, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria, Australia
14.0km (8.7 miles) Helens Head, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia
16.2km (10.1 miles) Redcliff Head (Red Cliff Head), Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia
References
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Report (issue)
ZEOLITES OF VICTORIA Editor: W. D. Birch The ralogical Society of Victoria Special Publication No...BENDIGO I ARARAT 1 2 3 4 7 Melbourne Mornington Peninsula Phillip Island South Gippsland 6 5 6 7...Northern Central Western THE ZEOLITE REGIONS OF VICTORIA CONTENTS Foreword Editorial Introduction. By...Henry 1. Melbourne. By David Vince 2. The Mornington Peninsula. By Peter Hall 3. Phillip Island. By Jack...5. Eastern Victoria. By John Haupt 6. Northern Victoria. By Bernard Day 7. Central Victoria. By Derrnot
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
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published 1968 Second edition 1973 Wholly set up in Australia by the editors. Cover design by Stuart Crluth...Melbourne. Printed, collated and bound in Australia by Hollyoak Manufacturing Company, Melbourne...Melbourne, Publication No. I. Registered in Australia for transrnission by post as a book. ISBN 0 9599061...Geolo8Y» University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. ii PREFACE This volume was originally...It provided an overall review of the geology of Victoria, and a new account of the geology of important
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connected by minute veinlets containing phillipsite, calcite, and smectite. Jointing of the columns across zeolite-filled...and Little Bird Rock areas, near Flinders, Victoria, Australia, are believed to have formed near the surface...basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed to have formed when...fault surfaces to produce zeolite-lined veins. Calcite commonly is a late forming mineral and fills many...Mehegan et- al~, 1982; Kristmannsd6ttir, 1982). Calcite and m,ontm,orilonite clay were fo,u'nd throughout
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connected by minute veinlets containing phillipsite, calcite, and smectite. Jointing of the columns across zeolite-filled...and Little Bird Rock areas, near Flinders, Victoria, Australia, are believed to have formed near the surface...basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed to have formed when...fault surfaces to produce zeolite-lined veins. Calcite commonly is a late forming mineral and fills many...Mehegan et- al~, 1982; Kristmannsd6ttir, 1982). Calcite and m,ontm,orilonite clay were fo,u'nd throughout
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the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................Robinson Zeolites from Phillip Island and Flinders, Victoria ..................... 451 by W. D. Birch The...University of Wollongong Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500 Australia Thomas G. Vallance Department of Geology University...University of Sydney Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land...minerals and mines in their plans to establish Australia as a new colony in the late 18th century. The
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Minerals. Rocks ond Meteorites. Notional Museum of Victoria IDon McColl B. Sc. F. G A.A. Lecturer at Canberra...A.B S.M M�mber of Council. Notional Museum of Victoria ,editor & publisher 1 Cyril Kovac F G.A A. t•l•phonc...FLINDERS, V I CTORIA, AUSTRALIA. Ruth Coulsell 21 Florence Ave Kew. Victoria. A BSTRA CT The Bass...Bass Strait Coast of Victoria extending eastward from near Cape Schanck 10 West Head at the western emrance...historical background of a famous collecti11g site III Victoria. INTRODUCTION This paper was originally prepared
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nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite crystals in calcite-cored vein-dikes (by L. Moyd) 21:235-248 ALICE...Diamonds from [the Argyle mine,] Kimberley, Western Australia (by J. D. Grice & G. L. Boxer) 21:559-564 AR1STARAIN...Secondary minerals from Ashburton Downs, Western Australia [Australia) (by E. H. Nickel & B. J. Gartrell) 24:203-216...Colorado (by J. E Taggart & E. E. Fooro) 11:37-38 AUSTRALIA On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide...Western Australia (by B. Mason & P. J. Dunn) 5:265 Famous mineral localities: Broken Hill, Australia (by
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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
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America Memoir 99 (Part 1) GEOLOGY OF THE ALASKA PENINSULA ISLAND ARC AND CONTINENTAL MARGIN (PART 1) (Part...131 137 137 sese 139 eer aera: THE ALASKA PENINSULA AS AN ISLAND ARC AND CONTINENTAL MARGIN Introductions...the Alaska Peninsula southwest of Wide Bay .... Part 3—Tectonic map of the Alaska Peninsula and adjacent...the Alaska Peninsula ........ 2 5. Tertiary rocks in the central part of the Alaska Peninsula ............... ee 6. Volcanic calderas of the Alaska Peninsula ........ N orovausrNoreyedererseis sietne Ts Active
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Series____ ................................. 422 West shore of Fortune B ay........................................................ .. 426 Section from West Pinion Cove toBoxey Point............................................................. 427 Cousin Head-Dantzig Section...................................tip of B u rin P eninsula and th a t p a rt of the west shore of F o rtu n e Bay lying between S aint Jacques... such as S aint Jacques H arbor, which is ju st west of S aint Jacques Island (figure 3 ), Long H arbor
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Radioactivity Investigations At Ear Mountain Seward Peninsula Alaska, 1945 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This... Radioactivity Investigations At Ear Mountain Seward Peninsula Alaska, 1945 By P L KILLEEN and R J ORDWAY MINERAL...RADIOACTIVITY INVESTIGATIONS AT EAR MOUNTAIN SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA, 1945 By P. L. KILLEEN and R. J. ORDWAY...concentrates from the gravels of four streams that head In Ear Mountam, Alaska, when collectiOns of the...160" L.J I v~ ~ Ul ~ 6 -Index map of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, showing location of Ear Mountain 0) I--'
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• SPOKANE, Washington--U.S. Courthouse, Rm. 678, West 920 Riverside Ave.. • ANCHORAGE, Alaska--Rm. 101...Dishna River area, north-central Iditarod quadrangle, west-central Alaska 44 Marti L. Miller Shear sense in...and significance of post-thermal-peak shear zones west of the great tonalite sill near Juneau, southeastern...abundant west-northwest-striking normal faults. All four fault sets are characterized by calcite-chlorite...Arm (Clark, 1972, p. D8-D9). Prominent fibrous (calcite and chlorite) slickenside surfaces mark the faults;
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Huntly and Turriff (Lower Banffshire and North-West Aberdeenshire) (EXPLANATION OF SHEETS 86 i\ND 96)...representative of the geology of Aberdeenshire and Banff­ shire, and furnishes examples _of most of the geological...petrography, and attention was diverted· to the North-west Highlands, ,vhere new Jlroblems of the greatest.....-\rea " • • • • (ii.) Boyndie and \Vhyntie Head Area III. ACID OLDER IGNE0llS ROCKS • • • •...This coast trends practi_cally east and west from Troup Head to near Portessie and lies wholly within
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is at about 600 feet elevation, about 0.55 mile west of Skookum Creek, and about 5.5 miles north-northwest...is at about 1400 feet elevation, about 0.2 mile west of Skookum Creek, and about 5.5 miles north-northwest...extend to both sides of the creeks, particularly west of Skookum Creek. The main workings are on the Olympia...description and accuracy: The Bishop prospect is on the west shoulder of Skookum Creek at about 1300 feet elevation...radioactive mineral Gangue minerals: Ankerite, calcite, chlorite, quartz, sericite Geologic description:
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Point Lavinia is at the north end of the Inian Peninsula on Chichagof Island. The location was taken from...location is at sea level on the west coast of Yakobi Island about 1.5 miles west of Hoktaheen Lake (Rossman...Reserves: Additional comments: The gabbro body is in the West Chichagof-Yakobi Island Wilderness Area of the Tongass...about 0.6 miles west-southwest of the location point. The deposit may extend further west, possibly northwest...deposit appears to thicken and become richer to the west, suggesting that resources identified to date by
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the ridge country north of Victoria Creek__ 26 3. A, High terraces at head of Woodchopper Creek; B, Falls...headwaters of Preacher Creek; B, Idaho Bar, from head of Little Minook Creek________-_____----___-_____...Alaska that lies between meridians 141° and 152° west longitude and parallels 62° 40' and 66° 35' north...quadrangle includes that part of the region lying west of the 150th meridian; the Fairbanks quadrangle...Bay Co., however, did not extend its operations west of Fort Yukon, and the Russians, on the lower Yukon
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Bay, and Simeonof Island Quadrangles, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1968...Bay, and Simeonof Island Quadrangles, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska ByJ.G. Frisken Porphyry copper- and molybdenum-type...Bay, and Simeonof Island quadrangles, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska / by J.G. Frisken. p. cm. (U.S. Geological...Ore deposits Alaska Alaska Peninsula. 2. Geochemistry Alaska Alaska Peninsula. I. Title. II. Series. [QE390...geologic setting 1 Mineral occurrences on the Alaska Peninsula 3 Mineral deposits of the Port Moller study area
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Va of Ozark region 639 639 Map 222. General west-east section through Joplin and St. Francis Mountains...Scotia 253. Transverse section of a part of the West Lake Mine, 254. Geologic section across the Goldfield...Geologic surface map of producing area of 259. East-west section through Mizpah shaft, 260. Section of Goldfield...productive part of Cobalt, Ont., area. 285. Section of calcite, and native silver, Cobalt, Ont quantitative distribution...occur in the same forma- tion, as in parts of the West, the lignite is commonly in horizontal strata, while
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Operations. 639a. Aurora Mine, 606a. Australia, Mineral Output, 91. Australia, Western, Report of Mining for...A New Safety Device List of, 437-43. Canada West Coal Co., 281. Canadian Creek Mine, 58. Canadian...Coal Importers of France Organizing, 637. in Australia, 221. in Austria-Hungary, 254, 670. in Cape...New Zealand, Ookemaking 544. Queensland and Victoria,, 125. 411, 640'a, Queensland, 411. Russia,...Hand power Rock Drill, bv Drill, Copper in Australia, 157, 544. Copper in Bulgaria, 699. Copper Industry
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Data File JU001 Site name(s): Unnamed (on the west side of Casement Glacier) Site type: Occurrence...north of Adams Inlet. It is in a moraine on the west side of the Casement Glacier, just below about the...rocks (Brew and others, 1992). The rocks immediately west of the occurrence are metamorphosed Silurian and...Resource Data File JU002 Site name(s): Unnamed (west of Sullivan Island) Site type: Occurrence ARDF no...an east-flowing drainage 3 miles west of Lynn Canal and 5 miles west of Sullivan Island. It is in the
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Wormingford Mere Swindon• Harders Road, Peckham West Lavington• 132 145 145 145 159 159 159 173 173...Trial Boreholes: Institute of Geological Sciences, West Granton Road, Edinburgh EH5 IJA Boreholes drilled...Institute of Geological Sciences, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW tDrilled as part...wedge of boulder clay cropping out to the south-west, beneath the gravel was not present. Although the...boreholes were drilled along an almost horizontal east-west line of 120 m length.The boreholes suggest that
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Midlands, stands the parish church of St. Mary, at the west end of which once stood the church of St. Bertelin...Scotland. Besides many respectable residents, at the head of whom was the Countess Dowager of Findlater, in...order of the government a military survey of the West of Scotland and subsequently published “ Plans for... LIEUT.-GENERAL ALEXANDER Dmom. 24 for the North-West of England, with headquarters in Liverpool, and...cost of £53 11s 10d per week—under 1Os per week per head. Search for Coal, etc. Dirom prepared a General
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including mammalian faunas, are recorded from Victoria Cave, near Settle. ... • .. . l\' © Crorvn...sand and gravel 90 Glacial drainage channels 92 Head 92 Scree 93 Cave deposits 93 Peat and lacustrine...Yorkshire County Council (on road works) and the North West and Yorkshire water authorities (on boreholes for...water to Lancashire from Stocks Reservoir and to West Yorkshire from Winterburn Reservoir. Groundwater....,rust have their Bowland Field Station at Da]e Head, Slaidburn. Every year many students visit the classic
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is on a west tributary to Fall Creek. It is at an elevation of about 4,600 feet, 1,200 feet west of the...minerals: Calcite, quartz Geologic description: The deposit of this prospect consists of quartz-calcite veins...feet east-southeast of Scotty Peak, and 2,000 feet west of Fall Creek. The site is about 1,600 feet north...cuprite, malachite, native copper Gangue minerals: Calcite, quartz Geologic description: The deposit at this...and Mertie, 1923, p. 112-113; MacKevett, 1976). Calcite and quartz commonly accompany the copper mineralization
 
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