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Atacamite from
Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Atacamite
Formula:Cu2(OH)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sideriteⓘ1 photo of Atacamite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Gerhardtiteⓘ1 photo of Atacamite associated with Gerhardtite at this locality.
Cupriteⓘ1 photo of Atacamite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Atacamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:26280
Long-form Identifier:1:3:26280:4
GUID (UUID V4):c6a9f8a6-36c7-4f40-9957-9da1eff27542
Nearest other occurrences of Atacamite
95.6km (59.4 miles) ⓘElla Mine (Lady Ella Mine), Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 20:09 23 November 2014 from Eastern Australia JAMES L. SHARPE PETER A. WILLIAMS School of Natural...Bag 1797 Penrith South DC New South Wales 1797, Australia p.williams@uws.edu.au sharpemin@dodo.com.au Figure...copper, 2 inches high, Mount Elliott, Cloncurry region, Queensland. M. Newnham specimen, J. Bosworth photo...Sydney in Penrith South DC, New South Wales, Australia. Dr. Peter A. Williams is a professor of chemistry...ROCKS & MINERALS Mines in the Mount Isa Block in Queensland and the western regions of New South Wales have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORIGIN OF GERHARDTITE AT THE GREAT AUSTRALIA MINE, CLONCURRY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA ERIK B. MELCHIORRE§ Department...Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia TIMOTHY P. ROSE Chemical Biology and Nuclear...S.A. ABSTRACT The Great Australia deposit, near Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia, hosts an unusual enrichment...copper, Great Australia deposit, Australia. SOMMAIRE Le gisement Great Australia, près de Cloncurry, au...au Queensland, en Australie, montre un enrichissement inhabituel en gerhardtite, nitrate de cuivre. D’après
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 1, Number...Page Feature Articles: The Minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania... 3 f. Haupt, R. Bottrill & S. Sorrell...mines of the Mt Isa District, Queensland Part 1 - The Great Australia Mine ........... 23 B. Day & B. Beyer...Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria resolved to pro­...your collection: Cape Grim zeolites, Sir Dominic Mine azur­ ites or Whim Creek wulfenites, to mention
Journal (issue)
7(1):15-17 Bismoclite from the Leinster area, Western Australia. Grguric, Ben A. and Madsen, Ian C. 8(2):83-8S...Secondary copper minerals of the Crusader mine, north-west Queensland. Sharpe, James L. and Williams, Peter...secondary minerals from the Nifty copper mine, Western Australia. Downes, P.J., Shields, P. and Bevan, A...• Kasolite from the British Empire mine, Arkaroola, South Australia. Plimer, Ian R., Besley, Robert and...Mendozavilite from the Fitzgerald River district, Western Australia. Birch, William D., Pring, Allan and Wallwork
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
include: 1) termite, 2) bat, 3) atmospheric and 4) coal mine fires and natural gas. It is clear that in three...two minerals at ambient temperatures is 1.1‰ (Australia) to 0.8‰ (Democratic Republic of Congo). Similarly...type locality for gerhardtite is the United Verde Mine at Jerome, Arizona, USA (Wells and Penfield, 1885)...of gerhardtite at the Great Australia deposit in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia has produced some of...for Chile at the Los Azules Mine (Terry Szenics) and the Quebrada Blanco Mine (Bob Jenkins), and in the
Report (issue)
26 11.25 Total 100.40 100.00 (1) United Verde mine, Arizona, USA. (2) Cu2 (NO3 )(OH)3 . Polymorphism...copper deposits. Association: Cuprite, malachite, atacamite, miersite, brochantite, pseudomalachite, buttgenbachite...from the United Verde mine, Jerome, Yavapai Co.; in the Daisy shaft, Mineral Hill mine, Pima district, Pima...France. At the Great Australia and Monakoff mines, near Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. Name: Honors
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Tasmania, GPOBox252-79,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract GreatAustralia isa smallCu-Codeposit...zoie Mount Isa inlier, northwesternQueensland,Australia, are particularlyprevalentin the AustralianProterozoiccontains...GreatAustralia deposit islocated1 km southof Cloncurry,in thenorthernregionof theEasternsuccession (Figs...Cloncurwtownship (•• GREAT AUST•LIA wasthefirstto be discovered andminedin Queensland, when the audacious...postorogenic felsicmagmatism (Williams andNaraku Cloncurry faultwasthelocusof severe regional albite-actinobatholiths)are
Journal (issue)
the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................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...University of Sydney Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contact with the mother liquor then botallackite, atacamite and clinoatacamite, polymorphs of stoichiometry...authors (PAW) from the Main Lode, Great Australia mine, Cloncurry, Queensland. Their structures were confirmed...Open Pit, Chingola, Zambia and also from the M’sesa mine, Kambowe, Katanga (Shaba), Congo (Zaire). To obtain...immediately, prior to oxidation and hydrolysis to form atacamite-group products. Raman microprobe spectroscopy...the order cuprite – nantokite – eriochalcite – atacamite– clinoatacamite (Sharpe & Williams 1999). Such
Journal (issue)
the last hard rock mines in England. Frazer's Hush mine in Weardale is scheduled to close shortly and South...unfortunately this was too little too late to save the mine. A few hand specimens of siderite displaying drusy...cassiterite and wolframite were collected just before the mine closed. South Crofcy will perhaps be best remembered...Isles where large excavations have been made in mine dumps and left unfilled. This type of activity gives...pharmacosiderite collected from a shaft dump of Ting Tang mine (see separate article in this issue). The locality
Journal (issue)
Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R... D. (1999) Famous mineral localities: Ting Tang mine, Gwennap, Cornwall 19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's...P. (1995) Crystallized Enargite from the Gregory mine, Ashover, Derbyshire 15:28-29 DAY, B. (1998) Collecting...from Boulby mine, Cleveland 14:4-8 __& McCALLUM, D. (1993) Millerite from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead
Journal (issue)
Newnham 10 Heyington Close, Croydon Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile (03) 9723 5041...Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 3, Number...Articles: The Coolgardie pegmatite field, Western Australia Mark I. Jacobson ......................... 91...M11se11111 ofVic10ria Associate Editors The Daydream Mine, Silverton, N.S.W. John D. Leach .................associated with ironstones in the Olary region, South Australia P.M. Ashley, B.G. Lottermoser, K.M. Scott ...
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia 6151, Australia 3 Department of Geological Sciences, University...new mineral found at the Great Australia mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. An assemblage of secondary...South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, Australia. O.C.G. Barrydawsonite‑(Y) typically forms single...hemimorphite. Mojaveite was discovered at the Aga mine where it occurs with cerussite, chrysocolla, khinite...in the Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Yu.U. Bonazziite* L. Bindi, G. Pratesi, M. Muniz-Miranda
Journal (volume)
King, Tewkesbury, U.K. LR Plimer, Parkville, Australia M.T. Price, OUMNH, Oxford, u.K. RE. Starkey, Bromsgrove...Symes, Sidmouth, u.K. P.A. Williams, Kingswood, Australia Aims and Scope: The Journal publishes refereed...2007 PAPERS Zoned oxidation deposits in Tynebottom Mine, Garrigil1, Cumbria Trevo r F. Bridges and David...Copper¡bearing silica gel from the walls of the Tankardstown mine, Co. Waterford, Treland Stephen Moreton 10-17 ...and 1. Ike Wilson 52-54 Powellite from Benallt mine, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd: a first Welsh occurrence
Report (issue)
100.00 (1) Nantoko, Chile. (2) Broken Hill, Australia. (3) CuCl. Occurrence: sublimates. A secondary...rarely in volcanic Association: Cuprite, copper, atacamite, paratacamite, claringbullite, cerussite, hematite...hematite. Distribution: In the Carmen Bajo mine, Pintada Mountain, near Nantoko, Copiapó district, Atacama...the Wewak, Magpie, and Great Australia mines, Cloncurrie, Queensland, Australia. In the Malanjkhand copper...Russia. At Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. From the Levant mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England. Along Baratti Beach
Journal (issue)
ARTICLES: Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1ďż˝):9-11 Definition...Minerals from. tďż˝ Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B. and Elliott, P. 2(2):57-70...2(2):57-70 The minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania. Haupt, J., Bottrill, R. and Sorrell, S. 1(1):3-19...Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Birch, W.D. 2(2):47-50 Post-mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit...of the Mount Isa District, Queensland P<1rt 1 - The Great Australia Mine. Day, B. and . Beyer, B. 1(1):23-28
Book (edition)
MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...dist., China Fluomatromicrolite, x 25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As...Domafov, Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite...piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page 3: Stepite on arsenic, 45 111111,Jachymov...possible to describe numerous new mineral species. Great attention was given to groups of stmcturally and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
particular association consists of chlorides (atacamite, boleite, cumengeite, herbertsmithite), chlorocarbonates...mountain on the Nanortalik Peninsula, opening as a mine in the early 2000s (Schlatter and Olsen 2010). Nalunaq...Nalunaq was Greenland’s only producing mine before ceasing operations in January 2014 having produced...Drillcore data and sample data from the interior of the mine were combined with geological and structural data...deposits in Proterozoic sedimentary basins, northern Australia’, in Economic Geology hundredth, 931–963. Romer
Book
4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals encompass a great variety of chemical compositions and crystal structures...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5
Report (issue)
Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is...and Nimary pits in the background. Courtesy of Great Central Mines Limited. ii GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN...Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 iii Š The Australasian Institute of Mining...knowledge and understanding of the mineral wealth of Australia and Papua New Guinea. v vi Committees MONOGRAPH...Mining and Petroleum Bureau of Resource Sciences Queensland Department of Minerals and Energy Mineral Resources
Report (issue)
40 40 41 42 43 50 50 Australia ••• New South Wales , Victoria •• • Queensland ••• South A t1stralia...t1stralia Wes tern Australia Tasmania ••• Northern Territorv • Pap11a • • • ••• ••• •• • •• • New Zealand ...tends to give way. to the leaner primary 0!fes as mine s get deeper. It is importa,,n t to realize that...and electricity and is, therefore, of value for a great variety 0£ purposes . The largest and most increasing...Newfoundland~ ••• India* ••• 143 200 ••• ••• Australia 46,493 38,426 • •• • •• France ... 31 11 ••• •••
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
no sulfur emissions or waste, little to no acid mine drainage). Equally important, Zn non-sulfide ore...small uneconomic showings to major districts of great size and productivity (Figure 1). Major and most...flat-topped mountain with all of the current and past mine workings being distributed along the margins of...mineralization occurs in the central part of the Beddiane mine within the upper part of the Aalenian–Bajocian dolomitic...azurite, chrysocolla, cuprite, native copper, atacamite, connellite, and abundant iron oxide minerals
Journal (issue)
France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Trepc=a mine, Stari Trg, Kosovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3.9 cm, on calcite, from Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa. This specimen...remembered—a photo of a dodo bird would be great to have, but not as great as having the real thing! It is certainly...geologists far into the future. In addition, he had a great interest in the history of chemistry and mineralogy
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica), then those of pegmatitic origin...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO...Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald...mainly in crystals to 5 cm at the Himmelsftirst mine, Freiberg, both Saxony, Germany. In the subtropical
Journal (volume)
Assaying, Practical Associated Northern Blocks Australia, South, Oil in Australian Gold Output Australian...Belgian Congo 51 133 Bantjes 246 Barramia Gold Mine 187 Barramia Mining and Exploration Report 240 Basset...Mines Report 366 Bauchi Prospects 248 Bauchi Tin Mine 61 Beatty, A. Chester, v. Guggenheim Exploration...Bessemer's Ancestry 353 (C.J.) Banks H Bismuth in Queensland Bleloch, W.. on Rand Geology Bloomfield. iE...Craig, K. H. Cunningham Crcison Mine, Cripple Creek Crime, The Great Cripple Creek Developments Report
 
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