Adelaide Mine (Adelaide Pty Mine; Adelaide Proprietary Mine), Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 41° 53' 7'' South , 145° 25' 44'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -41.88528,145.42889 |
| GeoHash: | G#: r0x3tr40d |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| Köppen climate type: | Cfb : Temperate oceanic climate |
An underground silver-lead mine, now operated as a crocoite specimen mine, and probably the prime source of crocoite in the world.
The host Cambrian ultramafics have been highly altered to serpentinites and galena and dolomite-rich rocks that have been deeply weathered forming crocoite-bearing gossans.
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25 valid minerals. 1 (TL) - type locality of valid minerals.
Regional Geology
This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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| Ordovician 443.8 - 485.4 Ma ID: 3186041 | Paleozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Ordovician (443.8 - 485.4 Ma) Lithology: Limestone,sandstone,slate,quartzite,conglomerate Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
| Furongian - Series 3 485.4 - 509 Ma ID: 707155 | sediments 37519 Age: Cambrian (485.4 - 509 Ma) Description: Marine sedimentary sequences, minor volcanics in places Comments: sedimentary siliciclastic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Sedimentary siliciclastic Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5] |
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References
External Links
http://www.spiriferminerals.com/80,New-great-find-of-crocoites--Tasmania-.html
www.treasuremountainmining.com. [Greene, E. (2012) Crocoite: the most beautiful mineral on the planet? ]
Adelaide Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia