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Calcite from
Radium Hill Mine, Radium Hill area, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Radium Hill Mine, Radium Hill area, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:834857
Long-form Identifier:1:3:834857:9
GUID (UUID V4):b84ae7f0-90c0-493a-b963-d4c497ddeceb
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
5.8km (3.6 miles) Dalkey Mine, Radium Hill area, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
10.8km (6.7 miles) Queen Bee Mine, Radium Hill area, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
11.3km (7.0 miles) Luxemburg North Mine, Radium Hill area, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
29.3km (18.2 miles) Mutooroo South Mine, Pine Creek - Mutooroo area, Mingary, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
29.5km (18.3 miles) Mutooroo Homestead, Pine Creek - Mutooroo area, Mingary, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
30.2km (18.8 miles) Mutooroo Copper Mine, Mutooroo Homestead, Pine Creek - Mutooroo area, Mingary, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
41.2km (25.6 miles) Boolcoomata Carphosiderite Mine (Boolcoomata Scheelite; Old Boolcoomata), Old Boolcoomata Station, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
52.0km (32.3 miles) Dome Rock Copper Mine, Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station), Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
56.2km (34.9 miles) Hercules Mine, Thackaringa District, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
62.3km (38.7 miles) Mount Howden Mine, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
taken from the Library NN GU 1900 TP CATALOGUE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIAN MINERALS: 1983 by R.J. Noble...Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue of South Australian minerals...(Robert John), 1946—supiic LIBRARY Catalogue of South Australian minerals: 1983. Bibliography. ISBN 0...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423
Report (issue)
2018D037783 l SOUTH AUSTRALIA Department ot Mines GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Bulletin No...No. 30 URANIU·M DEPOSITS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA BY S. B. DICrGNSON, M.Sc., Director of :Mines and Government...Geological Surver~ on Uranium Deposits in South Australia. This publication represents the work of many...descriptions of the important uranium deposits of Radium Hill, Crockers Well, Mount Painter and the Mount Lofty...contribution to -the knowledge oj uranium deposits in South Australia, and ,is, indeed, the first pu blication issued
Book
MINERAL COLLECTING LOCALITIES OF THE BROKEN HILL DISTRICT I. R. PLIMER Dr Ian Plimer is a lecturer in...University College of the University of New South Wales at Broken Hill First published 1977 Copyright o 1977...Plimer All rights reserved National Library of Australia Card and ISBN 0 909209 06 S Designed and produced...165 King Wiliiam Road, Hyde Park, South Australia Typeset in Australia by Typecraft Pty Ltd, Adelaide Printed...Printed in Hong Kong PREFACE The Broken Hill area is well known not only for its mineral wealth but
Book
MINERALS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA by J. E. Johnson and J. M. Scrymgour * i *• 1 £• ? -ts-7. mm? m ty... ■- y Extract from “South Australian Year Book 1975“ Minerals of South Australia Contributed by J. E...and J. M. Scrymgour, South Australian Museum The mineral potential of South Australia was recognised from...his services as a geologist to the newly-formed South Australian Company in May 1836 and was appointed...few miles from Adelaide, and the colony’s first mine, the Wheal Gawler, began operations in May of that
Report (issue)
69 0.10 0.23 0.02 [98.98] [100.51] (1) Olary, South Australia; by electron microprobe, total Fe as Fe2...epidote, albite, calcite. Distribution: In Australia, in the Olary district, at Radium Hill, Crocker’s Well...and Billeroo Station, South Australia, and from Thackeringa, Broken Hill, New South Wales. In the Vishnevy...Matema and Campangula. In the Kirumba massif, Kivu Province, Congo (Zaire). In the USA, from the Quijotoa...Quijotoa Mountains, Pima Co., Arizona. At the Faraday mine, Bancroft, Ontario, and elsewhere in Canada. A few
Report (issue)
ILLINOIS LIBRARY i ^ 6^2.09 S ^^ 2 . ) I NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPARTMENT OF MINES. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Introduction, p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject...Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia:...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...from South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst,” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale Mine”; all
Journal (issue)
Australia and New Zealand Micromineral News Issue 7 – August 2013 Editor: Steve Sorrell – steve@crocoite...Kingsgate, New South Wales Photo width 5mm across Photo and Specimen: Steve Sorrell Australia and New Zealand...region, get in touch with one of the following: New South Wales: George Laking – bglaking@tech2u.com.au New...Queensland: Russell Kanowski – kanowfam@icr.com.au South Australia: Peter Keller – gondwanaminerals@yahoo.com...Victoria: John Haupt – john.haupt@bigpond.com Western Australia: Susan Koepke – minsocwa@hotmail.com Forward
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA N. H. LUDBROOK HPRM 2018D037863 Cover Parabarana Hill in the Mount Painter...out at the foot of the hill. Department of Mines and Energy South Australia A GUIDE TO THE GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA by N. H. LUDBROOK Issued und er th e authority of The...Government Pri nter South Australia , 1980 Frontispiece Cliffs of the Murray River south of Morgan. Geology...(Gawler Province) . . . .. . . . .. ... . . .. .. . . .... . 18 Musgrave Block (Northwest Province) .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1995 Sulphide mineralisation in the Olary Block, South Australia Evidence for syn-tectonic to late-stage...University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia 2 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University...New South Wales 2351, Australia Received: 21 July 1994/Accepted: 18 April 1995 Abstract. The South Australian...with geological similarities to the adjacent Broken Hill Block has led to extensive exploration. A broad...composition. Much of the sulphide mineralisation in the Olary Block has been interpreted as resulting from rift-associated
Report (Issue volume)
The geology of South Australia Volume 1 The Precambrian Bulletin 54 BULL 054 (Vol 1) Geological Survey...Survey of South Australia Bulletin 54 The geology of South Australia Volume 1 The Precambrian Edited...Minister of Mineral Resources State Print, South Australia Published 1993 Digital version with minor corrections...corrections 2012 © Government of South Australia 2012. This work is copyright. Apart from any use as...written permission from the Government of South Australia available through the Department for Manufacturing
Book
......................................... 23 • South America ................................................................................... 35 Australia ................................................cleaning or trimming, and thoroughly clean the work area afterwards. It is the author's belief that in general... M. Curie, and G. Bemont isolated the element radium from pitchblende mined at Jachymov. Later work...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was
Catalog/List
attention at all times. APRIL 1976 1. ACTINOLITE. Tory Hill, Ontario, Canada. Select, large, sharp lustrous... £11.50. 3. ALLANITE. Mary Kathleen Mine, queensland, Australia. Sharp, lustrous black, well formed crystals...mostly around -t" in size, intergrown on a lxl" area on matrix. 2-tx2xl".£5.5o. ARSENoPYRITE. Trepca...lxfxf". £4.50. 11. 12. 13. -2AZURITE. Ting-Tpng Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Rich, bright blue small sharp...colourful specimen. 3x2xlf". 1:8.00. BARYTES. Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire. Lustrous, creamy, tabular bladed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrogenesis of rare-element pegmatites in the Olary Block, South Australia, part 1. Mineralogy and chemical evolution...Armidale, Australia 2 School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia With 4 Figures...Rare-element pegmatites within the Proterozoic Olary Block are of the berylcolumbite-phosphate type and...Zusammenfassung Petrogenese von Seltenelementpegmatiten im Olary Block, Siidaustralien, Teil 1. Mineralogie und chemische...(cf. Cernf, 1991). The Proterozoic Olary Block in South Australia contains a range of pegmatites, some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
similar to davidite from Radium Hill, 20 miles ESE. of Olary, South Australia. The latter occurs as rough...compare it with davidite. T h e geology of the Tete area was investigated in 1948 by Dr. C. F. Davidson and...epidiorite with scapolite and a massive scapolite-calcite or scapolite-dolomite facies. The scapolite-carbonate...I). Mawson, Mineral Notes. Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, 1916, vol. 40, pp. 262-266 ; The nature and...occurrence of uraniferous mineral deposits in South Australia. Ibid., 1944, vol. 68, pp. 334-357. [M.A. 1-69
Report (issue)
.................................44 Grenville Province, Quebeck and Ontario............................................................47 Mont Laurier area................................................................................52 Charlebois Lake area.............................................52 Rossing.............................................54 Australia................................................. 5. Stratigraphic sequence for the Rabbit Lake area................ 16 6. Cross section of the Rabbit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Columbia University] at 23:49 05 October 2014 Daybreak Mine, Spokane County, Washington T he naming of minerals...its outstanding classic occurrence at the Daybreak mine near Elk, Washington. Autunite is characterized...most “autunite” specimens that have been found on mine dumps or have resided in collections for decades...some localities, including that from the Daybreak mine described below, dehydrates in such a way that what...1-cm group of autunite aggregates from the Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington; John Lucking specimen
Catalog/List
Mkli __ 1974 1. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Small, very sharp, glassy crystals...crystal faces. 2xltxl". £6. 5. M\SENOPYRITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Sharp, silvery grey, complex...matrix in association. Itxlt". £4. 8. AUTUNITE. Mine La Faye, Grury, Saone-et-Loire, France. Yellowish...with Beudantite - £6. lit. BOT: LkCKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Pale gree:, lustrous micro-crystals...mineral. Itxl". £4. 15. BOURNONITE. Bridford Barytes Mine, Bridford, Teign Valley, Devon. Rich, grey, metallic
Report (issue)
.............................................. South America.................................................... 175 South Africa, Republic of.......................... 175 Namibia (South West Africa)................................................ Australia.......................................... New...Lake-Blind River area, Canada (average grade 0.12 percent U30s), and at the Witwatersrand basin area in the Republic...Republic of South Africa (average grade 0.025 percent U308), where uranium is produced principally as
Report (issue)
included are deposits in Europe, South Africa, northern Canada, South Australia, and, to a limited extent,...Blind River, Canada ; and in the Witwatersrand, South Africa, also were discovered and developed during...mineral belt of Colorado; the Boulder batholith area, Montana ; the Sierra Ancha region, Arizona ; and...crystallization temperatures sic age, San Mateo Valley area, Grants district, New of ore and gangue min~rals...complete coverage on the history of uranium (or radium) discovery, production, uses, mineralogy, and ·
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/oregeorev Basin-related uranium mineral systems in Australia: A review of critical features Subhash Jaireth... Songfa Liu Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o...features of basin-related uranium mineral systems in Australia. These mineral systems include Proterozoic unconformity-related...mineral potential and prospectivity analysis in an area. Such analysis requires identification of mappable...large deposits in the Lake Frome region in South Australia, the Chu-Sarysu and Syrdarya Basins in Kazakhstan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manuscript Paleovalley-related uranium deposits in Australia and China: A review of geological and exploration... Li, Paleovalley-related uranium deposits in Australia and China: A review of geological and exploration...pertain. Paleovalley-related uranium deposits in Australia and China: A review of geological and exploration...Geological Survey of South Australia, Australia; GPO Box 1671, SA 5000, Australia; b Beijing Research...paleovalley-related uranium mineralizing systems in Australia and China can be used to refine strategies for
Report (issue)
VIEW ^'V'iccjring MINING OPERATIONS STATE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA nUKINO THE HALF-YEAR ENDED DECEMBER Compiled...Jluetralia. REVIEAV A MINING OPERATIONS STATE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA DUKING THE HALF-YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31st...AND WORKING CONDITIONS. Gor.D Leasks — Maximum area, 20 acres ; working conditions, one man to every...mineral lands, not exceeding five square miles in area for one person, a fee of 20s. being charged for...over a mile or portion thereof. portion of the area, as prescribed. PREFACE. 'PHE is average
Book (edition)
excite fluorescence, as do the gamma radiations from radium (radio-lumines cence). A dozen or more of these...paints and inks contain minute amounts of some radium salt which constantly give off ra diations which...used on watch dials. While the amount of actual radium present is very minute, yet a Geiger counter will...only a few seconds, like in Franklin, New Jersey, calcite, or it may last for hours like in some of the phosphorescent...under the much shorter cathode, X-ray (gamma), and radium radiations. Some of the large manufacturers, like
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
probablyformed in severalways. At Radium Hill, near Olary, Australia,• it is associatedwith minerals which...Carnotites and an Associated Mineral Complex from South Australia." Min. Mag., Vol. I5, p. 27I, I9IO. 2 Some...Kithil, Karl L., "A Preliminary Report on Uranium, Radium, and Vanadium," U.S. Bureau of Mines Bull. 7o....place. It is, of course,probablethat much original calcite has been replaced by silica or convertedto gypsumby...universallydies out when followeda short distanceinto the hill. The depositsappearto bevery superficial, a characteristic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
properties were taken up jointly by the British South Africa Company, New Consolidated Gold Fields Ltd...very sparse amounts at the Radium Hill uranium workings, South Australia. In Mozambique a few crystals...mineralogical work the authors were invited by the British South Africa Company to make a brief field study of the...this part of Portuguese East Africa. The Mavuzi mine is reached from Tete by ferry across the THE VRA...the Mavuzi district is the hottest spot in Africa south of the equator. The nman annual temperature observed
 
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