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Hematite from
Iron Blow Mine, Mount Lyell Mines, Queenstown, Queenstown district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Hematite
Formula:Fe2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hematite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Iron Blow Mine, Mount Lyell Mines, Queenstown, Queenstown district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:920028
Long-form Identifier:1:3:920028:9
GUID (UUID V4):753ca58c-dfcc-4246-a055-66774981a053
Nearest other occurrences of Hematite
0.3km (0.2 miles) ⓘPhilosophers Ridge, Queenstown, Queenstown district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
0.5km (0.3 miles) ⓘPrince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell Mines, Queenstown, Queenstown district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
1.6km (1.0 miles) ⓘMount Lyell Mines, Queenstown, Queenstown district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
2.2km (1.3 miles) ⓘNorth Lyell mine, Mount Lyell Mines, Queenstown, Queenstown district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
2.2km (1.4 miles) ⓘWestern Tharsis deposit, Mount Lyell Mines, Queenstown, Queenstown district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
29.7km (18.5 miles) ⓘKoonya prospect, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
32.3km (20.1 miles) ⓘRosebery Mine, Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
33.0km (20.5 miles) ⓘMurchison Gorge, Tullah, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
37.9km (23.5 miles) ⓘFederation workings, Mt Heemskirk mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
39.2km (24.3 miles) ⓘRiley Creek Mine, Tullah, Tasmania, Australia
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1967 No. 6 FOSSIL GOSSANS (?) AT MT. LYELL, TASMANIA MICHAEL SOLOMON CONTENTS PAGE Abstract ............. Lyell Comstock.................................................... North Lyell .............764 The Iron Blow .................................................... Source of the hematite .................... 772 ABSTRACT The orebodiesat Mt. Lyell consistof pyrite and coppersulfide lenses in deformed...of the adjacent sulfides. INTRODUCTION ThE Mt. Lyell mining field was openedby prospectorswho believedthat
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mapping and Interpretations of the Mount Lyell Mining District, Tasmania: A Large Hybrid Cu-Au System with...Fern Tree, Tasmania, Australia 7054 Abstract New detailed mapping of the Mount Lyell mines area has resulted...top and silica-rich upper part of the system at Lyell Comstock, the large displaced mass of silica-rich...at North Lyell, and the deeper levels of the system exemplified by the low-grade Prince Lyell deposit...The alteration has been focused along the Great Lyell fault, a major reverse-type growth fault, which
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
Book (edition)
. 1Jictori& Olollege 1£ihrar11 The Peaks of Lyell ‱ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022...in the distance GEOFFREY BLAINEY The Peaks of Lyell MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS VICT 1- '\ I ,, ...bound in Australia by Melbourne University Press, Carlton, N.3, Vicioria Registered in Australia for transmission...University Press Preface T is the history of the Mt. Lyell Mining and Railway Company-the first, the last,...the story of a wild region of mountains and mines-some mines rich, many poor. It is the story of men who
Book (edition)
DISCARDED *622 . 343 B57p 1102529 Blainey Peaks of Lyell i~'.i,>>lÂœ. ·,· {\:::·= PUBLIC LIBRARY FORT WAYNE...THE PEAKS OF LYELL I !I i ‱ ‱ I ~ I / I .. I I lrii:.. MT. SEDGWICK MT. LYELL The denuded...denuded hills of Queenstown MT. OWEN ' by Geoffrey Blaino/ ‱ l I MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS First...bound in Australia by Melbourne University Press, Carlton, N.3, Victoria Registered in Australia for transmission... PREFACE· .. T HIS is the history of the Mt. Lyell Mining and Railway Company- the first, the last
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsof Tasmania M. SOLOMON GeologyDepartrnent,G. P. 0., Box252C, Universityof Tasmania,Hobart, Tasmania7001...Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract The major operatingmetallic ore depositsof Tasmaniaare (a) volcanic-hosted...River, Roseberyand Hercules(Fe-Zn-Pb-Cutype), Mt. Lyell (Fe-Cu type), and SavageRiver (Fe oxide type); (b)...1888 gold found besidecliffs of hematite (the Iron Blow) near Mt. Lyell led to the smeltingof the adja...1908 saw smeltingof bornitechalcopyritefrom North Lyell. The Zeehanand Dundas silver-leadfields and the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for the Genesis of Cu-Au Deposits, Mount Lyell Field, Western Tasmania DAVID L. HUSTON† AND JULIENNE KAMPRAD...Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Abstract The Western Tharsis deposit, located in the Mount Read volcanic belt...belt of western Tasmania, is one of 22 mainly Cu-Au deposits in the Mount Lyell district. Although the...pyrite-chalcopyrite like most other deposits in the Mount Lyell district, it also contains bornite-rich ores characteristic...consistent with an Ordovician (~460 Ma) timing for Mount Lyell Cu-Au mineral deposits; this mineralization may
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Environmentof Formation of the VolcanicHostedMt. Lyell CopperDepositsUsingGeology,Mineralogy,Stable Isotopes...Universityof Tasmania,G. P.O. Box252C, Hobart, Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract The Mt. Lyell copperdeposits...Exhalativepyritic massivesulfidedeposits(e.g., The Blow) and siliceous barite-bornitechalcopyrite mineralization...rocks,the lattercommonlycontainingminorsiderite-hematite-magnetite, barite,sphalerite, apatite,and monaziteand...requirewaterdepthsapproaching 1 km. North-southandeast-west-trending faults,which were activeduringthe Tabberabberan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Upper Cambrian Owen Conglomerate, West Coast Range, western Tasmania C. A. NOLL* AND M. HALL School of...3800, Australia. The Upper Cambrian Owen Conglomerate of the West Coast Range, western Tasmania, comprises...dipslope of the basin is predominantly drained by west-directed palaeoflow, intrabasinal faulting in the...the southern half of the basin, with pronounced west-directed and local axial through drainage palaeoflow...depositional history, Owen Conglomerate, stratigraphy, Tasmania. INTRODUCTION The Owen Conglomerate is comprised
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chronostratigraphy of the Mount Read Volcanic Belt in Western Tasmania, Australia: Implications for VHMS... University of Tasmania, Tasmania 7001, Australia Abstract The Middle Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics...Volcanics of western Tasmania, Australia, host several world-class volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) deposits...volcanic and intrusive rock units from throughout the Mount Read Volcanics and underlying mafic-ultramafic complexes...interpreted to underlie the Mount Read Volcanics. Magmatism in the central Mount Read Volcanics lasted at
Report (issue)
. ) I NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPARTMENT OF MINES. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. J. E. Carne, F.G.S., Government...Under-Secretary for Mines. CONTENTS. Introduction, p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New...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
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia andℱ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...remnant ovoid Pleistocene Luise Volcano on the east coast of Lihir Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New...1967 A.E. Jenkins and G.M. Willis 3. Broken Hill Mines — 1968 1968 and Papua New Ed. C.L. Knight 1974...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7
Report (issue)
Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY...ENERGY and RESOURCES Mineral Resources Tasmania Tasmania TASMANIA SIMPLIFIED GEOLOGY LAUNCESTON Sm ...orogeny (cf. Tabberabberan Orogeny of mainland Australia). MIDDLE DEVONIAN LATE CAMBRIAN– EARLY DEVONIAN...with basement indicated. MINERAL RESOURCES TASMANIA Tasmania DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY and...Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary by D. B. Seymour, G. R. Green and C
Report (issue)
Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY...ENERGY and RESOURCES Mineral Resources Tasmania Tasmania TASMANIA SIMPLIFIED GEOLOGY LAUNCESTON Sm ...orogeny (cf. Tabberabberan Orogeny of mainland Australia). MIDDLE DEVONIAN LATE CAMBRIAN– EARLY DEVONIAN...with basement indicated. MINERAL RESOURCES TASMANIA Tasmania DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY and...Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary by D. B. Seymour, G. R. Green and C
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 (edition)
NEVER ENDED BY THE SAME AUTHOR The Peaks of Lyell, 1954, 1959, 1967 The University of Melbourne: A...University of Melbourne, 1957 Gold and Paper, 1958 Mines in the Spinifex, 1960 A History of Camberwell, 1964...mining, but that definition has become too narrow. Australia in the 1960s found oil and natural gas and phosphate...century Australia has been one of the world’s important mining countries, but no history of the mines has...metals that were mined vigorously in Australia. It also touches on iron because Australia’s steel industry
Book
of Canada Ltd., 207 Queen's Quay West, Toronto 1, Canada AUSTRALIA Pergamon Press (Aust.) Pty. Ltd...Boundary Street, Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W. 2011, Australia FRANCE Pergamon Press S A R L , 24 rue des Ecoles...Kronberg-Taunus Pferelstrasse 1, Frankfurt-am-Main, West Germany Copyright © 1976 John Drew Ridge All Rights...features. Distances between inhabited places and mines are given in lengths of straight lines between them;...continent or, in the case of Australasia, by Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Papua-New Guinea
Book (edition)
1963, 1969, 1978, 1993 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Blainey, Geoffrey...84557 6. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Australia—History. 2. Mineral industries—Australia—History. I...tapping of natural gas on the North-West Shelf, the emergence of Australia as the world’s largest producer...the finding of the huge Olym- field in South Australia, the swift revival of gold downs of uranium...century Australia has been one of the world’s important mining countries, but no history of the mines has
Book
British the of minerals and Mines Stokes G. S. Ralph ■■> - I # MINES AND MINERALS OF THE BRITISH... PJ(. J.;'. . PRIMITIVE CHINESE OFBN-CAST. MINES AND MINERALS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE BEING A DESCRIPTION...a brief, though comprehensive, review of those mines and minerals of the British Empire oversea, the...Times, Singapore ; and journals in India and Australia—a course was pursued from South Africa through...through Ceylon, India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. In the period mentioned
Journal (issue)
early-19th century geological map of the Peak District by John Farey 69 Front cover: The apron reef...Tony Waltham. Reports Members’ Evening, 2012: Mines and quarries database: Don Cameron Mining at Alderley...Mercia Mudstone at the opencast pit of Bantycock Mine, at Balderton, south of Newark. Photos by David... Supplement The geological setting of the lead mines of the Hucklow, Eyam, Stoney Middleton and Longstone...Cuadrilla Resources Ltd. at Preese Hall on the Fylde coast, Lancashire. An investigation conïŹrmed that the
Survey Bulletin 73 A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill...Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrt.tas.gov.au ©Copyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved...the publisher in writing. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Bottrill, R
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with some VMS deposits hosting world-class gold mines with more than 100 t Au. Previous studies have identified...control unusual enrichment of gold in VMS. At the district scale, the gold-rich deposits occupy a stratigraphic...that commonly differs from other deposits of the district possibly due to a step change in the geodynamic...of Sweden), whereas 15% of the gold produced in Tasmania for the same period came from VMS (ABARE, Australian...and 87% at the LaRonde concentrator (Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. Annual Report 2008). Thus, the head grades
Report (edition)
NEW SOUTH \ WALES. ' I V . V DEPARTMENT OF MINES. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. E. F. PiTTMAN, A.R.S.M., Government...s06geol NEW SOUTH ^^^ALES. DEPARTMENT OF MINES! GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. E. F. PiTTMAN, A.R.S.M., Government...Chronological Order of Opening of New South Wales Mines Copper —probably the first Metal used by Man 10...Commercial Ores of Copper their occurrence Abandoned Mines and Re-opening Development Low-grade Deposits Furnaces... of of 57 Copper Lodes 59 American Mines Copper Mines 41 44 Concentration of the W. H. Weed
Book
House, 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052 DANUM HOUSE LIBRARY DARWIN CONFERENCE...1972 . Western Australia, 1973 . Southern and Central Queensland, 1974 . South Australia, 1975 . Illawarra...Illawarra District, 1976 . Tasmania, 1977 . North Queensland, 1978 — WBND ON OAR . Western Australia, 1979...House, 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052 Copyright By THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE...printed in Australia by Brown Prior Anderson Pty Ltd 5 Evans Street Burwood Victoria Australia 3125 Con
Journal (issue)
2002 $12 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949) 494-7695 ...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
 
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