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Gypsum from
Tom's Quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tom's Quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:832692
Long-form Identifier:1:3:832692:8
GUID (UUID V4):0a54ab39-33ab-4330-bf42-35d5b87e98f3
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
2.4km (1.5 miles) St John's Quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
58.5km (36.4 miles) Fairview Quarry, Robertstown, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
59.3km (36.8 miles) Kitticoola Mine (Great Wheal Orford; Plush and Omond; PM 53; Reedy Creek; Tungkillo), Palmer, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
76.0km (47.2 miles) Burra Burra Copper Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
86.5km (53.7 miles) Mount Malvern Mine, Chandlers Hill, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
90.3km (56.1 miles) Lake Bumbunga, Lochiel, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
92.4km (57.4 miles) Swanport wetland, Murray Bridge, Murray Riverlands, Murray Basin, South Australia, Australia
93.7km (58.2 miles) Broken Cliffs, Waikerie, Murray Riverlands, Murray Basin, South Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Division of Mineral Chemistry, Port Melbourne, Australia ABSTRACT. A new sodium aluminium sulphate phosphate...white material on dumps at Tom's Phosphate Quarry, near Kapunda, South Australia. Strongest X-ray diffraction...Lower Cambrian age in the southern part of South Australia. They outcrop intermittently over a distance...quarries, called 'Tom's Quarry' is situated some 8 km ESE of the town of Kapunda. The quarry has not been...minerals. Recently, a white earthy material from this quarry was found to have a distinctive X-ray diffraction
Catalog/List
Andradite, no bruising; 4x2.5x2-$6.50 MS62.Mirac/e Mt. Mine, Vo/cano, Ca/ifomia; (a) dark reddish brown...5-Sl6.25 M595. Bu"a Copper Mine, Bu"a, South Australia, Australia; (a) M/M potential; 20 mag. xls, partially...gray Quarlz; 3.4x2.2x2.1-$1.75 M537. Tammine11 Quarry, Gree11wood, Mai11e; (a) dark grecnish prism scctions...FUJELLITE;M6tt. Tom'sfhosphate Quqny,neqrKqmmda. So1111z Australia, Auscrqlia:sharp transparent 10-25 mag. MIM xls;...8xl.3xl.2-$1.75 LIBETHENITE;M535. Bu"a, South Australia, Australia; sharp o7 312-25 mag. M/M xls: (b) larger
Catalog/List
..:;uite~ ~1L~.00. BIKITAITE. Footc Mina,Kings Mt. ,N.Carolin•,U.S.A. sharp bladed colourless xtls...2x1x-}11 ,.z15.oo" CASSITERITE. (Sparable Tin). South !h.Frr.ncis ,Illogan,Cornwa.11. Lustrous,dark-brown...2x2x1-l;11 ,C12.00. 1+6. CASSITERITE/ACHROITE. North Gocnbarruw Pit,Bun-1 ,Corn 11. Well formed, da.rk-brown...CERUSSITE/MALACHITE. Browns Claim,Rum Jungle,Western Australia. A brilliant,dark-green coloured,convoluted mass...example. 60. CHROME-CERUSSITE. Kapi Mine,Tasmania,Australia. Two excell nt, cr7atalline,examplea of this rare
Journal (volume)
the Vallee-Poussin and Renard 3 made a thorough north of Italy. examination of the plutonic rocks of Belgium...gabbro variety still Adams 4 and by Lawson 5 North America. This consists essentially of plagioclase...and the "anorthite rock" of Irving 2 from the north shore of Lake Superior. But if we are to regard..." he writes, "that my observations on 1 these north Wisconsin gabbros bear out the conclusions reached...^nterbedded with the Huronian and quartzites on the north shore of Lake Superior, are not are intrusive, and
Journal (issue)
235 Iron-manganese mineralization at Merehead Quarry, eastern Mendips (Abstract). By C. Alabaster.............. 263 Correlation and sedimentology of Tom's Cove Shale, Bude Formation. By J. P. B. Lovell ...iron-rich tourmalines from the Hercynian granites of South-West England and elsewhere, but a plea is made for...Al)3Al6[SisO18J(BO3)3(OH,F,O) 4 In the granitic rocks of South-West England, schorl or black tourmaline is the...variation in schorl from the granitic rocks of South-West England has been studied in detail by Power
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
flakes on fluellite from the Moculta quarry, Angaston, South Australia, are orthorhombic, a 15.00(7), b 8...351 (KaanoqbocuHaI~T). A pale lilac mineral from Mt. Koashva and Mr. Yukspor, Kola peninsula, has space...Fe3+Si4010(OH)2, occurs at Strassenschacht, Germany, and Mt. Tologai, Kazakhstan. Monoclinic, a 5.26, b 9.10...Min. 18, 323. Crystal aggregates from Goose Creek quarry, Leesburg, Virginia, are monoclinic, a 7.52, b...alteration product of delhayelite (22nd List) from Mt. Rasvumchorr, Khibina massif, Kola peninsula, has
Book (edition)
departement departamento Mt. district municipio Saint Sainte island mount, mountain...Green fluorescence under LW UV light. Found with gypsum, schoepite, cejkaite, etc., at Jachymov, Bohemia...Northampton co., Pennsylvania, and from the Kobokobo quarry, near Kamituga, Dern. Rep. of Congo. EJM 23, 269-277...11.32, Z = 8. nite, wulfenite, etc., from the Otto Mt., San Bernardino d: 6.4(8) - 4.5(9) - 3.02(7) - 2...white. Cleavage {00I} perfect. D = 2.18. ern Australia. J. ofGeoscience 56, 249-255, 2011. 9 Agricolaite
Journal (issue)
Bruce Cairncross, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Steven C. Chamberlain, Syracuse, NY Merrill...a local area network. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Ogdensburg, NY Malcolm Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey...Namnabat Bookplates, p . 533 497 Chips from the Quarry 518 Connoisseur's Choice: Aragonite Part 3: Southern...554 Collector's Note: lndicolite Discovery of the Mt. Mica Pegmatite, Oxford County, Paris, Maine, Cary
Book
10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...ANALCIME Natrolite and analcime from Eckman Creek quarry. Waldport. Oregon (by M. Groben) 1:153, 1:173,...23:88-90 ANCYLITE Calcian ancylite from [the Keystone quarry near Cornog,] Pennsylvania: new data (by F. A....13:107-112 ANDERSON, WAYNE --and R. Stinchfield: Pint's quarry. Black Hawk County, Iowa 20:473-479 ANDOVER MINE...ANHAEUSSER. CARL R. --with B. Caimcross: Gold in South Africa 23:209-225. 23:228 Al 'JAJ\ABO~OINA The Anjanabonoina
Journal (issue)
Diatomite Feldspar Fluorspar Garnet Gems Graphite Gypsum Kyanite Lime Lithium Mica (sheet and scrap) Olivine...Diatomite Feldspar Fluerspar* Gems Garnet Graphite* Gypsum* Kyanite* Lime Lithium* Mica (scrap) Mica (sheet)*...Feldspar Fluorspar Garnet Gems (dollars) Graphite Gypsum Kyanile Lime Lithium Mica (bcrapj Mica (sheet)...Construction Corporation is opening a commercial quarry near Rocky Gap, Bland County, for the production...3350 feet north of latitude 37'52'30"N. in northern Accomack County, about 1-75 miles north-northeast
Book (edition)
Bulgaria, G SphaJerite. xx 12 mm, Morococha, Peru, H Gypsum, xx 40 mm, Las Salinas, Peru, H Variscite, xx 5...ability of an opaque mineral to reflect the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho-...Other geographical abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river)...the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)...of pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For
Journal (issue)
etched xis. w. drusy Quartz. 3 ½ x 3. RUTILE, Graves Mt. Georgia. Brilliant xis. in mass. 2 x 1 ½ . ...•...MONTHLY CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1947 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................Mrs. C. W . Lockerbie, Sect'y-Treas. 223 West 9th South Street Salt Lake City 4, Utah We Want The Report...~ttache William 0. Vanderburg, Pretoria, Union of South Africa, whose full and complete reports form the...the following pages. For many years the Union of South Africa has been the most important producer of corundum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Show. Bell Grove Arena (next to Science North), 100 Ramsey Lake Road. Info.—Roger Poulin, R.R...sponsored by the Reno Gem and Min­ eral Society. South Meeting Rooms, Reno/ Sparks Convention Center, 4590... Info.—Pete Knudsen, 3 Bit­ tersweet Dr., Butte, MT 59701. July 20, 21—Mattituck, New York. 10th Annual...320, Mattituck, NY 11952. Jury 25-28—Franklin, North Carolina. Gem & Lapi­ dary Wholesalers (G&LW) Gem...Societies. Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, 3d Ave. North and Mercer. Info.—Bob McKay, Edmonds, WA 98020.
Journal (issue)
Rapid Creek and Big Fish River region, located north of the Arctic Circle, may be classified as a rocky...Creek, about 35 km south of Mackenzie Bay on the Beaufort Sea, and approximately 5 km north-northwest of Mount...“Crosscut Creek,” and the next tributary to the south and east is called “Lake Creek.” Area B, about 10...locality data, given as “from along the Blow River near Mt. Fitton in the Yukon Territory . . . at 68°30' N...prospector, and Di­ rector of Welcome North Mines. Welcome North Mines had previously been interested
Book
New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South...South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Appendixes...1mprints, and gemmy substances is almost any rock quarry in America. , • - ..., -... .. .,. - ... • ;t California Division of Mines A PUMICE QUARRY. Commercial pumice occurs at the foot of Glass...and the equally sought-after opalized woods of south-central Washington state. (See Chapter 9 for a discussion
Book (edition)
Jan H. Bernard (Czcch Republic). W.D. Birch (Australia), Elena Bonaccorsi (Italy), Ernst A.J. Burke (Netherlands)...Merlino (ltaly), Yves Mo!:lo (France), E.11. ickcl (Australia), Milan Novåk (Czech Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden)...Chemical. Meta/lurgical and Mineralogical Society o/ South Africa Journal of Chemical Phy ics Journal cif the...and Proceedings of the Royal Socief) 1 of Ne,v South Wales JPSJ Journal of rhe Physical Society of...Red Sea covc, known as Sharm Abhur, about 30 km north of Jiddah. Saudi Arabia. 74, 500. 78. 235-236. CM
Journal (issue)
Livingstone, Edinburgh , U. K. I.R. Plimer, Parkvill.:. Australia R .E. Starkey, Brom,grove, U.K R.F. Symes. London...London , U.K . P.A . Williams. Kingswood . Australia B. Young. Newcastle, U .K . Aims and Scope: The lournal...gold has been found associated with chlorargyrite, gypsum , natron , and a suite of secondary chlorides and...resulted in the formati o n of northeast-trending, north-plunging major and minor folds . During emplacement...(l00 fathom level)[SX 3625 3405) Quartz Limonite Gypsum Cuprite Jarosite Brochantite Chalcophyllite Paratacamite
Journal (issue)
PUBLICATION This guide covers the birds of western North America, with the chain of the Rocky Mountains serving...serving as a convenient natural division of the vast North American continent. Altogether, 508 species are...simply because a conspicuous and thus the easiest to NORTH AMERICAN novice would probably not know the identify...with its long axis following the Sierra crest. It ranges six to eight miles in width, about 15 miles in...glacially excavated valleys lying between two parallel ranges of mountains. The region covered by this b o o
Book
breccias structureless, reddish brown mudstones with gypsum nodules 144 structureless, reddish brown mudstoncs...which sedimentation was largely controlled by large north-trending faults. The solid rocks are heavily mantled...and figured. The glacial deposits of Blackpool North Shore were well exposed in the cliffs before the...of the extensive tract of marine alluvium in the north of the area, with its old storm beaches, no,-v kilometres... Plate 1 Blackpool and the Fylde coast, looking north-east (Hunting Aerofilms) . IV © NERC copyright1990
Report (issue)
Hull HUI0 60H ••• 111 PREFACE THE COAST of north Cornwall, with its magnificent exposure in cliff...resurveyed the southern part of the coast as far north as Boscastle on the scale of six inches to one mile...Institute of Geological Sciences, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DE 25th July 1972 K. C...PLATES PLATE I. Tintagel Island viewed from the south. Gently folded well-cleaved Upper Delabole Slates...showing a strong near-vertical jointing which trends north-west, rest on Tintagel Group slates and volcanic
Journal (issue)
Nevada's mountain country by Mary Frances Strong IT'S QUARRY TIME IN INDIANA Mineral collecting in the Hoosier...Treasurer 4401 S. W Holl Street, Seattle, WA 98116 SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES ~ward Ries...For additional Information and requests to the South Central Federation • THE TRANSFER BLOCK By Thomas...Harmon, Harmon's Agate and Silver Shop, Box 94, Crane, MT 59217. More of his engraved jewelry is pictured here...Mesquite R1v1era Texas 78379 • 512-296·3958 When In South r,~.,, ,,. SU/f ,1n(J ,ropoy• OCTOBER 1985 -
Book (edition)
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada I...Michael P. Cooper MR Mark Rogers MS Marshall Sussman MT Michigan Technological University MW = Marcelle Weber...this scale. Mohs' scale reads as follows: I Talc 2 Gypsum 3 Calcite 4 Fluorite 5 Apatite 6 7 8 9 10 Orthoclase...Although density ranges are often entered, they are not necessarily the widest ranges possible. Densities...constants of most minerals tend to vary o,·er ,vide ranges because of chemical substitution. Although ,ve
Journal (issue)
Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North Larry & Carmen Piekenbrock Keith & Mauna Proctor...of many exceptional blue topaz crystals on the north slope of Pikes Peak. On bis own, Ed found many fine...fine specimens of aquamarine and phenakite at Mt. Antero, Colorado. Ed was found dead of a heart attack...Natural Science, excavating a marnmoth along the South Platte River. He ran a classified ad in the June...- - - - - -- - - - and crystallized gold from Australia, mined 80 years ago." She claimed to carry "a
Report (issue)
Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product...Carlsbad potash district Roswell Resource Area Gypsum .................................................Estimates of tonnages of metallic commodities and gypsum in undiscovered deposits.........................include fluorite, barite, potash, halite, polyhalite, gypsum, anhydrite, sulfur, limestone, dolomite, brine...Mesozoic rocks contain limited amounts of limestone, gypsum, petrified wood, dinosaur remains, and clays. Tertiary
Journal (issue)
SYMPOSIUM. Some aspects of Engineering Geology in South West England Chairman's Introduction ... ... ...Engineering geology in reservoir construction in South West England. By J. L. Knill. ... ... ... 359 ...influence of weathering on the layout of quarries in South West England. By W. R. Dearman and P. G. Fookes...stability problems in the china clay industry of South West England. By M. J. Ripley. ... ... 405 The...The geological aspects of colliery tipping in South Wales and Somerset (Abstract). By A. N. Lane ... .
 
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