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Mimetite from
Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mimetite
Formula:Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Smithsonite1 photo of Mimetite associated with Smithsonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mimetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:110484
Long-form Identifier:1:3:110484:4
GUID (UUID V4):ed4e7c50-9e5b-4f71-a482-9c50644205be
Nearest other occurrences of Mimetite
10.6km (6.6 miles) Aroona Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
797–818 Geology of the Beltana Willemite Deposit, Flinders Ranges, South Australia IAIN M. GROVES,† Perilya...Limited, P.O. Box 1787, West Perth, Western Australia 6872, Australia CRIS E. CARMAN, Colorado School of Mines...National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Abstract Beltana is a high-grade hypogene willemite deposit...rocks in the Arrowie basin, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. It is situated adjacent to a major...minerals include willemite and coronadite with lesser mimetite, hedyphane, and smithsonite. Late-stage gangue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The willemite ore bodies which comprisethe Beltana Mine are associatedwith intrusive sedimentarybrecciasand...the Adelaide Geosynclinein the region of the Beltana Mine, and an erosionsurfacehas existed from that..."Lead Reef," displayingan abundanceof hedyphaneand mimetite whichsignifythe site of primary galenamineralization...limestones in otherpartsof the world. of the Leigh Creek Coalfield ('Fig. 1). Mining will be by opencut...throughout the northern Flinders The depositis about 320 road miles north of Ranges,the Beltariaore bodieswere
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Park 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za TSUMCORITE Tsumeb Mine, Namibia I t is fitting...development, growth, and ultimate closure of the mine in 1996. Tsumeb Corporation Limited (TCL) was founded...World War II, when the Tsumeb mine was put up for sale. Prior to this the mine was owned by Otavi Minen–...(OMEG). TCL operated the mine until 1988 when it was acquired by Gold Fields South Africa Limited and operated...(söhngeite is named in his honor) worked at the Tsumeb mine, and his two publications (Söhnge 1967, 2001) give
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)
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:...example, if a mineral is recorded from “Paradise Creek, Emmaville,” both these names are entered in the...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining
Journal (issue)
R O M REAPHOOK H I LL, SOUTH AUSTRALIA e d itorial board J .E. Johnson South Australian M use u m .... 'onh Terrace, Adelaide. South Au tralia, 5000. Bill Birch B.Sc. /Hons/. Ph.D. Curator of Minerals,...National Museum of Victoria Albert Chapman Australia "s Leading Pnvote Collector Don McColl B.Sc...in Zambia. and the Belta11a willemite mine, in Sowft Australia, tit 1hat there are 110 lead-bearing minerals...also occur a, the Ntine in Zambia. O11e occurs at Beltana and four occur most commonly in pegmati1es. 'TRODUCTI
Journal (issue)
course of investigation of the economic geology of north-eastern Victoria. several pyrope garnet crystals...Corryong batholith. Garnet is reasonably common i n north-eastern Victoria, being found in granite gneiss...southern Africa. Siberia. and rcccntlv in Western Australia. The Koctong garnets arc the onlv indication of...Gc-ochcmie;1l investigations in the Corryong dist net, North-cast V1cton:i. Um". Melbourne Ph D. thuis. ( unpubl...New South Wales Broken Hill: I , 1 7, 29, 3 7 , 54, 55, 58, 61 Deepwater: 4 1 Houghlahan's Creek: 33
Journal (issue)
France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London...by R. Z. Kothavala Rare minerals of the Kombat mine, Namibia ................................ 421 by...439 by S. Petrussenko Minerals of the Beltana mine, Puttapa, South A ustralia 449 by P. Elliot Columns...ichigan 49930 (906) 482-9560 Michigan native copper; mine owner; wholesale, retail 411 Museum o f Geological...quarries of irregular shape are clustered immediately north and west of Wagholi. The most extensive, called
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
REYNOLDS, CSA Australia Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 139, Burswood, Western Australia 6100, Australia D. F. SANGSTER...SANGSTER, 2335 Russvern Drive, North Gower, Ontario K0A 2T0, Canada CAMERON R. ALLEN, Teck Cominco American...Qiandong Shen, China; 35 = Beltana and Aroona, Australia; and 36 = Magellan Pb, Australia. hemimorphite replace...environment. For example, the Lady Loretta deposit in Australia is totally oxidized to a depth of 100 m and, although... The Magellan cerussite-anglesite deposit in Australia (8.5 Mt at 7.1% Pb) is an example of this process
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
Journal (issue)
Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement To The Mineralogical Record, September–October 2020 ... Mineral Collections in Australia Organized by Robert Sielecki Designed by Wendell Wilson with Photography...September–October, 2020 Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September–October...1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE 107, NEW MINERALS 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood .Mine, Cornwall Greenish , good coating on matrix, green...gelatin capsule .J £5 207 ■■ KESTERITE Cligga Mine Cornwall Metallic mass in matrix, quite rich Ix...1.5cm £12 Mg OH Cl 385 ■■ MIARGYRITE Mc Laughlin Mine, Napa County California black areas in quartz with...Cookeite in one area, nice miniature specimen Ipe Mine, Governador Valadares Mines Gerais Brazil 1.5 xl...1 to 2cm thick. Cork, S.Ireland £9 Ballycummisk Mine, near Rossbrin .Co 12. BERTRANDITE. excellent coverage
Report (issue)
deposits. Association: Willemite, smithsonite, mimetite, scorodite, anglesite, arseniosiderite, beaverite...Namibia); adamite, mimetite, smithsonite, goethite, quartz (Puttapa mine, Australia). Distribution: From...In Germany, from the Michael mine, Weiler, near Lahr, and the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest;...Forest; and at the Rappold mine and a dump on the Roter Berg, Schneeberg, Saxony. In Mexico, from Mina Ojuela...Richmond-Sitting Bull mine, Galena, Lawrence Co., South Dakota; in the Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic district
Report (issue)
Namibia); bayldonite, beudantite, mimetite, cerussite (Cap Garonne mine, France). Distribution: Many minor...Zambia. At the Touissit mine, near Oujda, Morocco. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, France...France. In the Virneberg mine, near Rheinbreitbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. From Beresovsk, near...and in the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. From the Ojuela mine, Mapimı́, Durango, Mexico... from the Mohawk mine, Clark Mountains, San Bernardino Co., and at the Belmont mine, Cerro Gordo, Inyo
Report (issue)
leucophoenicite (Franklin, New Jersey, USA); malachite, mimetite, rosasite, duftite, cerussite (Tsumeb, Namibia)...from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., at the Red Cloud mine, La Paz Co., and other minor...In a large deposit at the Puttapa zinc mine, near Beltana, South Australia. There are many other minor
Journal (issue)
AND OTHER MINERALS FROM WALGIDEE HILLS, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. W.D. Birch Department of Mineralogy and Petrology...the Walgidee Hills, Kimberley Division, Western Australia. The assemblage may represent crystallization...potassium-enriched rocks of the Kimberley region in Western Australia occur in over a hundred Miocene plugs, pi pes...Locality map of the Kimberley re1ion, We■tern Australia. The m11in concentrations of la mproltlc rocks... On Fig. 6, priderite analyses from Western Australia (this study; P ryce, pers. comm.; Lewis, pers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formal description of the mineral from the Altenberg mine (Moresnet, 69 Belgium) and he named the new mineral...controlled hypogene deposits are Vazante (Brasil), Beltana (Australia), Kabwe (Zambia) 79 and Berg Aukas and...discovery (or the re-interpretation) of deposits like Beltana, Vazante, Berg Aukas and 90 Kabwe, where metamorphic...The Star Zinc prospect is located ca. 20 km 184 north of the city of Lusaka. The willemite mineralization...is located in central 213 Zambia, about 110 km north of Lusaka (Kampunzu et al., 2009). The deposit in
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...21:235-248 ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft)...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry...2234, Australia Australian Synchrotron Company Ltd, 800 Blackburn Rd, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia [Received...Pb10(VO4)6Cl2), pyromorphite-2H (Pb10(PO4)6Cl2), mimetite-2H/M (Pb10(As5+O4)6Cl2) and finnemanite-2H (Pb10(As3+O3)6Cl2)...(Pb10(As3+O3)6Cl2). A supercell for mimetite is confirmed using synchrotron single-crystal XRD. It is suggested...concentration of minor substitutional ions, the mimetite superstructure is a structural adaptation common
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Mimetite Rocks & Minerals 2001.76:114-117. Tsumeb, Namibia...pyromorphite, and mimetite. Of these, the acquisition of a good-quality, highly colorful mimetite can be a significant...species. Accordingly, a pair of unusually fine mimetite specimens in the Desmond Sacco collection have...been chosen as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Mimetite is best known as a pale to bright yellow mineral...of 3 . 5 4 and a density of about 7.25 gm/cm,. Mimetite is typically translucent, seldom transparent,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fraser University] at 04:32 20 November 2014 Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico f asked to name the first...Mineral Show, we have chosen adamite from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...associated minerals include smithsonite, hemimorphite, mimetite, olivenite, scorodite, wulfenite, azurite, and...although it has been reported from the Sterling Hill mine, New Jersey. It is relatively well known from the...the Tintic district in the Iron Blossom mine, Juab County, and in locally abundant masses of colorless
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
particularly that related to Great Britain and Australia, leading to confusion with hemimorphite if specific...minerals, including hemimorphite, pyromorphite, mimetite, willemite, hydrozincite, cerussite, malachite...mines, Phoenixville, Chester County, the Ueberroth mine near Bethlehem, and the zinc mines at Friedensville...of the Rush Creek district), Marion County, Arkansas (Richards 1993). and the Hill lead mine, Hardin County...modest-quality specimens from the Sherman tunnel mine in the Leadville district. It is reported in beautiful
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
‘Broken Hill’) is located in central Zambia, ∼110 km north of Lusaka, in an area where several other Fe, Mn...discovered in 1902, and the sulfides were mined until mine closure in 1994 (Kamona and Friedrich, 2007). During...its lifespan, Kabwe was the most significant Zn-Pb mine in Zambia, with production from the sulfide bodies...and relative positions of orebodies on the 850 ft mine level (∼260 m depth from the surface), underlying...highly faulted massive dolomite adjacent to the Mine Club fault zone. The No. 2 body is a willemite-rich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Skorpion – Everybody’s dream 32 6.2. Deposits in South-Eastern Peru: those from polymetallic protores 6...Magellan (Australia) 38 7.2. The Silver version: Sierra Mojada (Mexico) and Wonawinta (Australia) 39 ...tarbuttite [(Zn2PO4(OH)] is very in the Skorpion mine (Namibia), together with chalcophanite MA ...Pb-only deposits as the Magellan deposit in Western Australia, 9 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Pirajno et al. 2010)...2010) are anglesite (PbSO4) and cerussite (PbCO3). Mimetite [Pb5(AsO4)3Cl], descloizite [PbZn(VO4)(OH)] and
Journal (entire run)
293 Wattletree Road, East Malvern, Vic., 3145. Australia. Phone: (03) 509 1666 Fax: (03) 500 9475 All rights...Library of Australia ISBN 0 909223 64 5 Design by Gemcraft Pty. Ltd. Printed in Australia by Ramsay Ware...cover is from the Coober Pedy opal fields, South Australia. The 10-ounce gold crystal on the back cover...Chabazite or Gmelinite (or both) in Basalt From Flinders, Victoria - W.D. Birch Apophyllite in Tasmania...- W.D. Birch Zinc Spine! from Broken Hill, New South Wales -1.R. Plimer Vivianite Pebbles from Anglesea
 
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