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Corundum from Queensland, Australia

Australia
 
[var. Sapphire] gemexplorer.org (n.d.) http://gemexplorer.org/archives/queensland-sapphire
    • Central Highlands Region
[var. Sapphire] O'Neil, Paul (1983) Planet Earth - Gemstones. Time Life Books, Alexandria, VA.
Mason, Anita (1976) The World of Rocks and Minerals. Larousse & Co., Inc., New York.
Sankey, Major J.R. (1907) Queensland Gems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, Volume XX, 61-82.
[var. Sapphire] (n.d.) Collection, Natural History Museum Vienna.
[var. Sapphire] www.nrm.qld.gov.au/mines/fossicking/sapphire.html
[var. Sapphire] www.dme.qld.gov.au (n.d.) http://www.dme.qld.gov.au/zone_files/fossicking_pdf/sapphire_dfl_2007.pdf
[var. Sapphire] Stephenson, P. J. (1989). Northern Queensland. Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, 89-97.
Stephenson, P. J., & PJ, S. (1976). SAPPHIRE AND ZIRCON IN SOME BASALTIC ROCKS FROM QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA. 25th International Geological Congress, Sydney, Australia, 2, 602-603.
Veevers, J. J., Mollan, R. G., Olgers, F., & Kirkegaard, A. G. (1964). The geology of the Emerald 1: 250 000 Sheet area, Queensland. Report of Bureau of Mineral Resources. Geology and Geophysics, 68.
[var. Sapphire] Raffan, N. (2018) Tomahawk Creek – Central Queensland. Source Of Sapphires: Nearby Tertiary Volcanic Plugs And/OrUpper Devonian To Lower Carboniferous Conglomerates? in abstracts of the 22nd IMA Meeting Melbourne p 328
Stephenson, P. J. (1989). Northern Queensland. Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, 89-97.
Rudnick, R. L., McDonough, W. F., McCulloch, M. T., & Taylor, S. R. (1986). Lower crustal xenoliths from Queensland, Australia: evidence for deep crustal assimilation and fractionation of continental basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 50(6), 1099-1115.
Kay, S. M., & Kay, R. W. (1983). Thermal history of the deep crust inferred from granulite xenoliths, Queensland, Australia. Am. J. Sci, 283, 486-513.
Irving, A. J. (1980). Petrology and geochemistry of composite ultramafic xenoliths in alkalic basalts and implications for magmatic processes within the mantle. American Journal of Science, 280(2), 389-426.
    • City of Mount Isa
      • May Downs Station
Roheryn Clifford
Sharon Clifford collection
      • Rosebud Station
Ken Stockdale collection
Ken Stockdale collection
    • Etheridge Shire
[var. Sapphire] www.corunduminium.com (n.d.) http://www.corunduminium.com/australia.html
    • Flinders Shire
      • Blackbraes National Park
Collection of NHM, Vienna
    • Tablelands Region
      • Kinrara National Park
[var. Sapphire] Sutherland,FL, Coenraads, R, Abduriyim, A and Meffre, S., 2013. Lava Plains, NE Queensland, gem mineral suite. Abstracts, 36th Annual Seminar, Mineralogical Societies of Australasia. Sydney. p. 21-23.
[var. Sapphire] On the topaz trail. P. O’Brien, Australian Gold Gem & Treasure, Vol. 12, No. 4, April 1997, pp. 26 –30.
 
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