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Magnesite from
Skipton Caves, Mount Widderin, Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Magnesite
Formula:MgCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnesite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Skipton Caves, Mount Widderin, Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:67760
Long-form Identifier:1:3:67760:8
GUID (UUID V4):408e8d9a-e475-41d2-adb0-5dce378dde11
Nearest other occurrences of Magnesite
85.6km (53.2 miles) Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia
85.7km (53.2 miles) Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia
98.2km (61.0 miles) Merrimu Quarry, Darley, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject Index...Index, p. 60; : Subject Index, p. 86 : Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95...95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject Index...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...point may be cited from South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst,” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale
Book
CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS LIPOW Si. ao sé ... CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia Philip Scalisi David Cook VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold...Classic mineral localities of the world, Asia and Australia. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines and...resources—Asia. 2. Mines and mineral resources—Australia. 3. Mines and mineral resources—Soviet Union
Catalog/List
FAYALITE Vester Silfberg,Ludvika. Sweden 264 MAGNESITE Altermark, Mo-I-Rana, N.W.Norway mangan-ferroan...green Long wave ½" £3 lx½ £5 Zn AsO/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass of black...235 ARDEALITE Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay, Western Australia Fawn powder ,a) gelatin capsule b) sent in lxl...Oklahoma, USA 15 ■ ANGLESITE Broken Hill, NSW. Australia Single red-brown flower-like, replaced by sandstone...- - 815 CORUNDUM SAPPHIREAnakie, Queensland, Australia 683 CELESTITE Brown County, Kansas, USA Blue translucent
Catalog/List
Ix½__~~ _ .. !~ _!LO-- -- ·- · ~~1 ~0/~ 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE...I x2 £ 12 BcAl O 142 ■ CHRYSOPRASE Quccnslnnd Australia variety of Chalcedony. Compact green nHL~sive...Cumbria CORUNDUM SAPPHIREAnakic, Queenslund, Australia 815 Good smnll brown curved crystnls on doll1111ite... Palabora Mine, Transvaal, South Africa 1091 MAGNESITE LAVENDULAN Meskani, Iran Pure white amorphous...£2 lx2 £4 2x2 £8 - - · - - -258 MAGNESITE Rockwell, N.S.W. Australia 624 LAVENDULAN Hilarion Mine , Laurium
Journal (issue)
COVER: BORACITE with MAGNESITE. Crystalline aquamarine blue boracite with white magnesite plates, a 24 x 18mm...the North York Moors National Park. (CaS0-1), magnesite (MgC0 3), hematite (Fe 20 3 ), borate minerals...interstitial reddish hilgardite-10 and colourless magnesite. Small area (24 x 36mm) of a cabinet specimen...pseudo-isometric habits. Magnesite MgCO 3 The occurrence and genesis of magnesite in the evaporites of north...visiting, among others the USA, Canada, Russia, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroes, Poland
Catalog/List
green Long wave ½"£3 lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck...fJ':g1EN" ■■ ARDEALITE Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay, West Australia 246 BARYTES Redhill, Surrey s cleavage Fawn powder...feldspar. 1xl£5 lx2£8 2 ■■ CHRYSOPRASE Queensland Australia variety of Chalcedony. Compact green massive lxl£1...O 766 CORUNDUM SAPPHIREAnakie, Queensland, Australia Blue translucent cleavage ~m£3 MO 344 113 CORUNDUM-SAPPHIRE...214 1020 LEPIDOLITE Londonderry Quarry, West Australia Purple radiations and masses in feldspar quite
Catalog/List
£5 Zn AsO/4 ½" £3 Ix! £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum...235 ■ ARDEALITE Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay, West Australia Fawn powder ,a) gelatin capsule b) sent in lxl...£3 lx2£5 PbC0/3 142 ■ CHRYSOPRASE Queensland Australia 1053 CERUSSITE Miblad~n Morocco variety of Chalcedony...__ ___ __ CORUNDUM SAPPHIREAnakie, Queensland, Australia 815 Blue translucent cleavage AIO 3mm£3 .:.---------------...O OH 214 LEPJ;pOLITE Londonderry Quarry, West Australia Purple radiations and masses in feldspar quite
Journal (issue)
the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................ van der Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ..................Robinson Zeolites from Phillip Island and Flinders, Victoria ..................... 451 by W. D. Birch The..........................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
Book
metamorphosed rock phosphate at Moculta, South Australia Optical constants: Not certain; low birefringence...054 (A) Mode of Occurrence: Found in serpentine-magnesite deposits at Modum, Norway, where it is closely...stalactites and crusts in Petrogale Cave, Madura, W. Australia Optical Constants: W= 1.513, 8= 1.470 Space Group:...in many pegmatites in the New England area. In Australia it is found in the Rum Jungle area, Northern Territory...of bat guano, in Murra EI Elevyn cave, Western Australia. Also reported to occur in the guano of Guailape
Catalog/List
ANALCIME Taliskcr Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 17 2 Rich mass of...l x1/,£7 ALUNITE ANGLESITE Broken Hill, NSW. Australia Marysvale, Piule County, Utah 1152 15 Good coverage... ARDEALITE Moorba Cave, Jurien Bay, Western Australia 235 ANHYDRITE Staffordshire England Fawn powder...Brandy Bollie Mine , Yorkshire 94 Queensland Australia 1 2 variety ofChalcedony. Compact green massive...l £3 CORUNDUM SAPPH I R E Anakie, Queensland, Australia 815 Blue translucent cleavage AI O 3mm £3 CORUNDUM-SAPPHIRE
Catalog/List
ANALCITE Taliskcr Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGI. R JNE 17 Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 2 While crystals...5mm size Pb� £4 Broken Hill, New South Walcs,Australia 658 ANGLESITE good small grey crystal group PbSO/4...Brazil MAGNESITE I.AVENllU LAN Mcskam, Iran 248 1 06 1 Rich mass of rhombic cleavages on magnesite Skye...NaCaCu (Cl AsOJ 011 l x l£3 lx.2£6 MgC0/3 I cm £6 MAGNESITE Morristown.Arizona .l)SA Hilarion Mine , Laurium...OH Ix2£5 IxI D 700 Londonderry Quarry, Wes! Australia LEPIDOI.ITE Purple radiations and masses in feldspar
Catalog/List
cerussite, galena and linarite .............. Australia New South Wales, Broken Hill Drusy white xls with...ABSITE An oxide of uranium, titanium and thorium Australia Cr.ocker's Well Pitchy brown prismatic crystal...mass ..... BUSTAMITE Calcium manganese silicate Australia l\ew South Wales, Broken Hill Coarse pink cleavages...vein masses on and in xlline dolomite EMI30LITE Australia New South Wales, Broken Hill "Horn Silver Ore"...matrix; contains bromine }" $. 50................ . Australia New South Wales, Broken Hill Olive green to violet-brown
Catalog/List
Pure black-brown cleavage Mount Ste Hilaire, Quebec Ix! £ 1.10 ,Canada Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Ix½...ly blue masses Broken Hill, New South Wales,Australia Staffordshire Engl and lx2 S0p 2x2 £ 1 2x3...E.Madagascar ½ ins £2.50 Anakie, Queensland, Australia 3mm £3 3x4 £24 AIO I 13 CORUNDUM-SAPPHIRE Al...County, Arizona, U.S.A Mt Cobalt, Queensland, Australia 5mm £2.50 Ribane Mine, Mozambique £8 l x l £5...166 GISMO ·or 'E Zeolite Wale Broken Hi ll , Australia Bjordammen, near Kragero.Norway Peace of Mine
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 was...was found at Mosquito Gully, Wedderburn, Victoria. LIST OF ARTICLES VOLUME 1, NOS. 1 -51 The Contribution...or Gmelinite (or both) in Basalt From Flinders, Victoria - W.D. Birch Apophyllite in Tasmania - FL. Swherland
Report (issue)
See Garnet Group ANGLESITE Pb S04 Loe.: Ref.: Mount Zechan, Tasmania. Swanson, Howard E., and Fuyat...APHTHITALITE (K, Na) 3 Na(S0 4 )2 Loe.: Ref.: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Winchell, Horace, and Benoit, Richard...Fe"(U02)2 (P04)2 . 8 H20 ( ?) Source: U.S.G.S. (no mount) Ref.: Frondel, Clifford, Riska, Daphne, and Frondel...BAYLEYITE Mg2 U02 (C03)3 . 18H20 Remarks: U.S.G.S. mount Ref.: Frondel, Clifford, Riska, Daphne, and Frondel...BECQUERELITE 2 U03 · 3H20 (?) Remarks: U.S. G. S. mount. Ref.: Frondel, Clifford, Riska, Daphne, and Frondel
Journal (issue)
stalagmites, and other calcite forms observed in caves caused by a photographic flash is very effective...calcite (!!х1), cerussite, kutnahorite (x1), magnesite (x1), malachite (х1), natron, northupite (?),...to 5 em. This mineral is found inside artificial caves (4th- 1 3 t h centuries), on the surfaces of natural...interest. Caves. The Crimea is one ofthe typical karst-extension regions of Europe. Over 800 karst caves and...are known in the Crimean Mountains. Some ofthese caves are among the most beautiful in Europe with regard
Catalog/List
uranium cerium titanium oidde Au,: ..11. South Australia Thackeringia Pl!1=c,-11Jc• crystal seclions in...Bydrous calcium sodium aluminum sillcate AutraJJa Victoria, Fllnders SeJectlutroua j" to l·"terminated crystals...mass ........ , . . . . . . • . • • • • • 2. 00 MAGNESITE M.l~!nesium c:irbonalc Califor11ia :rn Dcrnardino...Mercuric øuUide Cal1fonda Contra Collt:i County, Mount Diablo Eall 61åckcryatala and masses on øillceous...lllic clcava[:cs and cryslal pl:nes ........ . Australia 11:ewSoulh Walcs. D cpwaler Rich folialed silvcry-gray
Book (volume)
22 13.15 0.44 99.67 3.775 3. Bimbouri, South Australia.12 4. Paposa, Antofagasta, Chile." 6. Boleo, Lower...Lower California at Boleo and El Toro. In South Australia at the Wallaroo, Moonta, and Cornwall (Kadina)...Dixon and Scott, Bull. Council Sc. Ind. Res. Australia, no. 214 (1947). 18. Seifert, Fortschr. Min.,...HEXAGON AL-SCALEN OH EDRAL— CaCOs Calcite, Magnesite, Siderite, 1 MgCOs FeCOs Rhodochrosite, 1...to mealy crusts occur as deposits in limestone caves or as an efflorescence on calcareous soils {rock-milk
Book
of mineral species. Ernest H. Nickel Wembley, Australia — aa 4 i | a4 ‘ eS wum iver) {ORE...few were named after a source locality, e.g., magnesite, after Magnesia, Thessaly, A mineral name may...County, Utah, U.S.A., who found the first braunite. Mount Ochi, Karystos, Greece. Reinecke, T. et al. (1991):...University of Adelaide, Australia. Moculta quarry, Angaston, South Australia, Australia. From Gk. allaktein...engineer who collected the original specimens at Mount Nyiragongo, Zaire. Sahama, T.G. et al. (1973): Bull
Book
Amity (Chamberlain and Robinson, 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district...discoveries in the famous alkaline pegmatites of Mount Malosa in the late 2000s include specimens showing...PACIFICISLANDS EUROPE AUSTRALIA GREECE Portland Harbor Trust quarry, Cape Grant, Victoria. In the late 1970s...and pumpellyite (Ottens, 2003). AUSTRALIA and PACIFIC ISLANDS AUSTRALIA Broken Hill, New South Wales....Ottens (2008b). AUSTRALIAand PACIFICISLANDS AUSTRALIA Broken Hill, New South Wales. Now much better
Book
England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne 3205 Victoria, Australia Nelson Canada 1120...Perroud, Geneve, Switzerland; Jiri Just, Perth, Australia; Richard Thomssen, Carson City, Nevada, USA; Peter... Moculta quarry, Angaston (near), South Australia, Australia. H= 2, Djn=?, 0^= 2.15, VHD 28. Harrowfield...Antarcticite, CaCl2*6H20, B Rhom. Don Juan Pond, Victoria Land, Antarctica. H=?, Djjj= 1.71, D(.= 1.71,...colorless. Petrogale cave, Madura, Western Australia, Australia. H=?, Djj3=?, Dq= 2.34, VHA 14. Bridge,
Book (edition)
geographical abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is....America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica), then those of pegmatitic origin...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South...cm occur Spring Creek mine, Wilmington, South Australia. with lazuritein marbleal Sar-e-Sang.KokchaValley...from the Wolurnla gold field, New South Wales, Australia. CM 12,367, 1974. AJOITE Ahlfeldite NiSeO 3•2H2O
Book
USSR; as crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone...from Bendigo and Ballarat, Victoria and from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. In the USA gold is often...cinnabar. Localities. Mercury is found at Idrija and Mount Avala, Yugoslavia and near Landsberg, W. Germany...Africa, Angola and Guinea. Other sources are Australia, Borneo, Guyana, Venezuela and Siberia, where...Tellurium has been found in Romania, Western Australia, the United States, particularly Colorado, and
Book (volume)
usually Jewellers physical stones. by The mount. but may will not etc. is which confirmed...and in shown well diamonds is face Fig. “Victoria” diamond. (Natural form and and edges. ...faces an are but carats, The fig. rep- “Victoria” crystals have rhombic-dodecahedra lenticular...exposed the historical found also are yet Mount and play and situated Geraes of these of...971 weighed 3 /4 hen’s a South African “Victoria” and 167), some stones compressed 169. Fig
Report (issue)
2. 90(10) 2. 76 (5) 032 ANGLESITE 4. 27 (10) Mount Zechan, Tasmania. JCPDS 5-0577. 3. 33 (8) 3. 27...Zealand. Langban, Sweden. ANCY LITE APHTHITALITE Mount Vesuvius, Italy. JCPDS 20-0928. 4. 04(6) 2. 91(6)... 76 (10) 2. 26 (10) Chandlers Mills, New Hamp shire. JCPDS 6-0307. 3.40(2) 3.20(6) 3.04(10) 2.85(4)...77 (7) 2. 98 (8) 2. 72 (7) 2. 36 (6) 2. 01(10) Mount not available. BASALUMINITE Newhaven, Su sse x... 10. 28 (10) 061 AWARUITE 2.05(10) 062 063 Mount Spokane, Washington. Takano, Y. (1961): Amer . Mineral
 
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