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Cordierite from
Surprise Mine, Ajana, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cordierite
Formula:(Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cordierite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Surprise Mine, Ajana, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1029239
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1029239:0
GUID (UUID V4):a0d7e3f3-6dda-40a9-97ed-6302b4e8dcd9
References
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Europe, this additional honor came without surprise. If the Western world decided to honor me, the Eastern...react just for the sake of equilibrium. The only surprise was, and these are secrets of politics, that everything...my education as postdoctoral fellow either in Australia or the U.S. Together with my girlfriend Gabi,...educated me in crystal optics, introduced me to cordierite and volatiles trapped in their channels, but...owe my scientific career! Due to my interest in cordierite, I started a fruitful collaboration with Werner
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...klippen, northwest of Mary Kathleen, Mt Isa Inlier, Australia a Ramon Loosveld & Guido Schreurs b c a Department...Australian National University , Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia b Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen , State University...klippen, northwest of Mary Kathleen, Mt Isa Inlier, Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 34:3, 387-402, DOI: 10.1080/08120098708729419
Report (issue)
SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by K. M. Ferguson < < EWG1CAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTWCA DEPARTMENT...ENERGY LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 . , .- FRONTISPIECE Sulfur and copper...deposit, Pilbara Craton GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 15 S by K. M... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA David Blight Copy editors: I. R. Nowak and...Lead, zinc and silver deposits of Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources
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Springer-Verlag 1993 The Coolgardie Goldfield, Western Australia: district-scale controls on an Archaean gold...Geophysics,The Universityof Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia Received: June 18, 1992/Accepted:...gold deposits in the Coolgardie Goldfield, Western Australia, occur in mafic and ultramafic rocks which...Southern Cross Province of the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia, and the Upper Eastmain River Greenstone Belt...southwestof the giant Kalgoorlie gold deposits, at the western margin of the ca. 2700 to 2690 Ma (Compston et
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OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never...D DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces....................................... Whim Creek mine ...................................................................................... Mons Cupri mine ...............................................
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Hazeldene area, Mount Isa Inlier, Queensland, Australia M. J . RUBENACH Department of Geology, James Cook...Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia ABSTRACT In the Hazeldene area, situated in the...changes from chlorite zone, through biotite and cordierite zones, to sillimanite/K-feldspar zone. Microstructural...near the sillimanite isograd demonstrate that cordierite grew early during the development of a steep...is common for Proterozoic metamorphic belts in Australia, the Mount Isla Inlier is characterized by Buchan-type
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Affiliated Associations: Gemmological Association of Australia: Canadian Gemmological Association: Rhodesian...et al. was said to have originated in the Wessel mine near Hotazel by Karuman, N. Cape Province, S. Africa...all over the world. I saw much from Sri Lanka, Australia and Colombia and Brazil, but what impressed me...Australien. (Transparent pink bustamite from Australia.) Z.Dt.Gemmol.Ges., 27,4, 208-10, bibl., 1978...pink stone, bustamite, presumed to come from Australia. A table compares the optical data with those
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revise) © 1976, 1985, 1992 Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty Limited © 1992 Reader’s Digest (New Zealand)...& Geophysics. Published by Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty Limited 26-32 Waterloo Street, Surry Hills...identification Prospecting for gold Gemstone areas of Australia The collector's gear Polishing and cutting Fossicking...minerals are widely distributed over the surface of Australia, but some areas, because of different geological...water-soluble chlorides, nitrates or phosphates. In Australia sedimentary sandstones, in certain areas and under
Report (issue)
- 3), AUSTRALIA warps REE % BMR Bulletin spate aeeiemnnnent D. H. Blake Spee 8 gh on TAT ...Government Publishing Service © Commonwealth of Australia 1987 ISBN 0 644 061774 ISSN 0084-7089 This Bulletin...Hartig, P Corbett and A. Retter Cover: Mount Isa mine—with 270 m-high concrete stack for the lead smelter...Onudenonouonomepcoenccue Mim neddcdesandstone anGdasiltstone surprise: ClreckshOnmatlOnmmn rec eiter oreriieieninsirai...ene tenet eee . Open cut, Mary Kathleen uranium Mine .......... 26.66 cece eee eee eee MAP Geology of
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good deal of collecting during the weekends. "At a mine east of Leadville (Lake Co.). Colo., almost at the...are reported from only one mine at Mackay, Idaho. Also found at this mine are malachite, azurite, cuprite...ite. chalcocite and others. "At the Sedalia copper mine, north of Salida (Chaffee Co.), Colo., I found garnet...near Tampa. Fla."—on label. GEORGlA-'Pale blue cordierite, the first to be recognized in Ga., has been...in Monroe Co., near the old Persons Mica Mine. The cordierite is found at a depth of about 30 ft. in a
Journal (issue)
664 J.Gemm.,l985,XlX,8 THE KATLANG PINK TOPAZ MINE, NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, PAKISTAN. By WILLIAM...Gh ari Ru ins. The hillock containing the Katlang Mine can be seen at the indicated point near the edge...hari Ruins. The hillock cont aining the Katlang Mine can be seen at the indicated point near the edge...geologist Syed Iftikhar Hussein, production at the mine has been steadily increasing since the Gem C P started...of other specimens reported to have come from the mine, are as follows: RI 1.630 1.632 1.640 Birefringence
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University of North Queensland, Townsville, Qld. 4811 (Australia) (Received November 18, 1986; revision accepted...magmatic cratonic belt (Carter et al., 1961). The western succession has historically received more attention...understood, being geographically distant from the western succession containing the Mount Isa style stratiform...minerals such as andalusite, staurolite, garnet, cordierite and sillimanite took place. Bedding subparallel...Malbon and Haslingden Groups in the central and western Mount Isa Inlier. A maximum age of 1780 Ma was
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ABiliated AssociatioDs: GeDlDlological Association of Australia Canadian Genunological AssociatioD Rhodesian Gesn...indebted to M r . Arthur A. Wirth of Sydney, Australia, who kindly enabled me to acquire a number of...emphasized that the new Brazilian sapphire is a surprise with regard to its unusual inclusions. These reveal...HOLLAENDER (H.). Cordierit, ein Edelstein mit Zukunft. Cordierite, a gem with a future. Deutsch. Goldschmiedezeitung...1963, 43, pp. 25-26. During the last few years cordierite has changed from being a rarity to a fairly popular
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biotite + staurolite and andalusite + biotite + cordierite. Within a small change in grade, chlorite breaks...+ muscovite + quartz = andalusite + biotite + cordierite + H2O. Calcic schists are characterized by the...metamorphic terrane that is characterized by cordierite- and andalusite-bearing assemblages in pelitic...are located in eastern California and form the western boundary of the central part of Death Valley. The...A linear fabric is locally developed along the western margin of the northnorthwest-trending anticline
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cuprite (up to 5 cm) have been found at the Onganja mine, near Seeis, Southwest Africa, about 68 miles from...47167 AIKINITE Lime Pit Mine, Cecil Co., Maryland, U.S.A. Tasmania, Australia Dypingdal, M o d u m , Norway...A light greyish glass was offered for sale as cordierite (iolite) at a mineral sale held recently in Switzerland...offered as cordierite, the gem h a d no pleochroism, the most obvious characteristic of cordierite. O n e...that of cordierite, combined with a refractive index close to, but lower than those of cordierite, prompted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
J. Bultitude b a b Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Geological Survey of Queensland...Natural resources and Mines, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...of the Hodgkinson Province, north Queensland, Australia. The granites have been subdivided in two major...supersuites: the garnet-bearing Whypalla and cordierite-bearing Cooktown Supersuites; and a number of...Corresponding author at: Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, Australia, 2601. Fax: +61 2 62499971. E-mail
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia Le Maitre (1979) proposes: " A generalised petrological...(1976) and Hensen (1971) this should come as no surprise. Reaction (1) is a sliding (divariant) reaction...(1971) Theoretical phase relations involving cordierite and garnet in the system M g O - F e O - A 1
Report (volume)
and geological provinces in the cordillera of western North America 10 Map showing worldwide distribution...complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of...such as at Fortitude, Nevada, and at Red Dome, Australia. Under the classification of Au-bearing skarns...Elders Resources' Red Dome deposit in Queensland, Australia, as well as on discovery of disseminated, carbonate-hosted...Santa Fe Pacific Mining, Inc.; Gail M. Jones of Western Geologic Resources, San Rafael, Calif.; Bruce A
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Victoria 3145, Australia b 1034 Geelong Road, Mount Clear, Ballaarat, Victoria 3350, Australia Received 8...an extensive fold belt along much of eastern Australia (i.e. the Tasman Orogenic Belt). In Victoria,...revival. Keywords: Gold: Slate-belt: Victoria: Australia; Metamorphic; Fluid: Structure I. Introduction...Victoria, and the Lachlan Fold Belt, in southeast Australia. This paper aims to synthesize and reinterpret...province The Tasman Orogenic Belt of Eastern Australia (Fig. 2) includes many late Precambrian to late
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
syn-tectonic tourmaline from the Western fold belt, Mount Isa inlier, Queensland, Australia R.J. Duncan, I.S. Buick...syn-tectonic tourmaline from the Western fold belt, Mount Isa inlier, Queensland, Australia, Chemical Geology (2014)...syn-tectonic tourmaline from the Western fold belt, Mount Isa inlier, Queensland, Australia a,1* , I. S. Buick ...28E, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia SC RI P Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative...Geosciences, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia b The Pheasant Memorial Laboratory for Geochemistry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formation, which was transformed into striking cordierite hornfelses.Scheelitic, scapolitic, vesuvianitic...exposure west of the Empire mine, at the head of Lost Horse Gulch in the western part of the Marysville district...hornfelsed in much of the region here considered. Dark cordierite hornfels is common, as befits the general pelitic...Empire formation has been transformed into dark cordierite hornfels and the Helena dolomite into white and...during his penetrating investigation, and the cordierite hornfels of the Empire formation was not mentioned
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lithotype 4: Metabasic rocks are very common along the western margin of the Bohemian Massif and have frequently...which were for the first time mapped along the western edge of the zone of mobilization by Forster (1961...in Fig. 10 were normalized using the biotite-cordierite-sillimanite gneiss of the Moldanubian Region...are represented in the region by the ubiquitous cordierite-sillimanite-biotite gneisses (Fig. 10a). The...level as lithotype 2 and has only been met in the western part of the Hagendorf-Pleystein Pegmatite Province
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hutton c a Geoscience Australia, P.O. Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia School of Earth Sciences...Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia c Geological Survey of Queensland, Queensland...Resources and Mines, Indooroopilly, Queensland 4068, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...reconcile are palaeogeographical reconstructions of Australia which place the Broken Hill and Mount Isa terranes...alternative reconstruction of Proterozoic eastern Australia is proposed in which back-arc extension in the
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S, Mo, MgO, Y, Zn, Fe2O3t, Zr,   sericite ± cordierite   SiO2, TiO2  H2O, Rb, Na2O,   CaO, Sr Stall...  kyanite ± actinolite ± anthophyllite ±   cordierite No data No data Anderson rhyolite (Studer...± Cu, S, MgO, Zn, Pb, Y, SiO2,   kyanite ± cordierite ± magnetite ±   Fe2O3t,TiO2  K2O, Rb, Na2O,...Zn, MgO, Pb, MnO, K2O, Rb,   anthophyllite ± cordierite   Fe2O3  Na2O CaO, Sr, TiO2 Quartz + sillimanite...anthophyllite ± cordierite Quartz + biotite + kyanite ± sillimanite ±   anthophyllite ± cordierite Quartz
Report (issue)
World-Class Beryl Guanghua Liu Page 76 Gem Beryl in Australia Dermot Henry Page 78 Beryl from Southern Africa...crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...forgotten, are also good for a surprise. In 1997, Gary and Mary Freeman began to mine the Orchard pit, a then...Alexander Falster Indialite is dimorphous with cordierite and is extremely rare. Indialite was named for...05 Crystal System Indialite is dimorphous with cordierite. The point group is 6/m 2/m 2/m. The Space group
 
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