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Spinel from
Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria, Australia
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:603034
Long-form Identifier:1:3:603034:6
GUID (UUID V4):c95944ea-c9a5-4c43-abb2-7e023bb09af2
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...com/loi/taje20 Gold- and diamond-bearing White Hills Gravel, St Arnaud district, Victoria: age and provenance...Geosciences Section , Museum Victoria , GPO Box 666, Melbourne, Vic., 3001, Australia b Mineralogy/Petrology...Museum , 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia c Research School of Earth Sciences , Australian...Australian National University , ACT, 0200, Australia Published online: 18 Jun 2007. To cite this article:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1996) 255-302 The geology and gold deposits of the Victorian gold province G. Neil Phillips a,*, Martin...Malvern, Victoria 3145, Australia b 1034 Geelong Road, Mount Clear, Ballaarat, Victoria 3350, Australia Received...succession of Victoria represents a major world gold province with a total production of 2500 t of gold (i.e....oz). On a global scale, central Victoria represents one of the most gold mineralized areas outside the...'slate belt' gold province (also known as 'turbiditehosted', or 'shale-greywacke' gold province). Production
Book
S. Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria, Australia. ILLUSTRATED BY 250 FIGURES GEORGE ROBERTSON...thanks are tendered. E. J. D. "ROSENEATH," KEW, VICTORIA, 2ND JANUARY, 1911. to CONTENTS CHAPTER I...Derrinal glacial conglomerate, near Bendigo, Australia, exhibit the sharpest and clearest scorings and...clay and of soft shale are met with. gold mining, when In alluvial banks are sluiced clay away, the clay... collect the In the older sedimenparticles of gold and bear them away. in as the beds found at Bendigo
Report (issue)
No. 7 Woolman, Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept. of...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423 ISSN...Keywords: Mineralogy/Catalogues/Minerals/South Australia. Issued under the authority of The Hon. R. G...crystal is 9 mm. Frontispiece: Azurite, Burra copper mine; 5 mm crystal group on chrysocolla. INTRODUCTION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
beneficiation testwork was conducted on two HM alluvial tailings and two zircon-rich concentrates sourced...(Fig. 1) have proved extremely prospective for alluvial gold. More recently, it has been recognised that...that the tailings associated with the alluvial mining operations are also rich in the economic heavy minerals...the exploitation of the zircon component of the alluvial tailings and in recent years Kalimantan has progressed...influence of a rising gold price (the zircon concentrates are a by-product of alluvial gold mining) and Chinese
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
different parts of the deposit. Acknowledoements. Mine access and permission to collect samples were provided...mugearite in the Walcha area, New South Wales, Australia' STOLZ (1984) gives a thorough description of...kimberlites, is an enigmatic feature of eastern Australia (Hollis et al., 1983; Jacques et al., 1984). Diamonds...River. The coarse clastic sediments contain alluvial gold and are probably early Tertiary in age. Bulk...the likely diamond stability zone in eastern Australia (Ferguson et al., 1979; Sutherland et al., 1984)
Catalog/List
including the largest Gold nugget ever found in Alaska AND the world’s largest single Gold crystal – all part...part of a great assortment of some 50 Gold specimens in nugget, crystallized, and crystal form. Augmented...grouping of Gemstones from all over the world, like the Gold and various other unique items, the first session...something special. The amount and variety of significant Gold in this sale are unparalleled, with spectacular...following pieces: • • • • • • • • • • The largest Gold nugget ever found in Alaska, known as The Centennial
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
Report (Issue volume)
also host abundant metahydrothermal (eg the Lunatic gold-antimony field), granite-related, and hybrid me...also produced significant silver-base metal and gold veins at Rivertree, Boonoo Boonoo, Boorook together... There is potential for low grade disseminated gold deposits similar to those in the Poverty Point–Timbarra...environment. The Drake Volcanics host numerous epithermal gold-silver-base metal occurrences, especially in the... Lunatic and Macleod Creek area have been major gold producers and retain significant potential. The
Journal (issue)
Zimbabwe G Z S Newsletter February 2014 The Victoria Falls Summer Symposium, November 2013 – Our two...ARTICLES AND REPORTS Abstracts and Talk summaries - Victoria Falls Summer Symposium, Zimbabwe, November 2013............ 5 Field Guide to the Geology of the Victoria Falls Area ………………………. 14 Geochronology – from...emphasizes the success and stimulation of our Victoria Falls International Summer Symposium and its field...thinking into the geology and geomorphology of the Victoria Falls area and to out improved understanding of
Corporate Document (Series)
gov.au www.mrt.tas.gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department...publisher in writing. in National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Bottrill, R...Adelaide mine, Dundas {Photo: A Wright] Rear cover: Bismuthinite on quartz and siderite, Princess mine {Photo:...Mount Bischoff {Photo: A. Tuma] Siderite, Renison mine {Photo:]. Leeming] While every care has been taken...in Tasmania ... ... ... ... ... ... Geology and mine locations, Dundas mineral field Geology and major
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. The Ladolam gold deposit lies within the caldera floor which has...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 4. Industrial
Book
Museum of Victoria. Chromiferous cerussite — (Dundas). Courtesy. National Museum of Victoria. First published...National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0909223 04 1 Printed in Australia by Quadricolor Industries...Lune River; Carrick area; North coastal areas; Northern inland areas; North West; Southern; West Coast;...SPECIMEN FIELDS — \ 27 Silver-lead mines; Tin mines; Gold mines; Copper mines; Nickel mines; Iron mines; Colebrook... 41 FOSSIL FIELDS — 45 Royslea Farm; Emery’s mine, Avoca; Blackwells Road; Pear Hill; Fossil Bluff;
Book
IKEYTOMINERALSI Al - alexandrite Gr-graphite K-kyanite Au-gold Kor - kornerupine Li- lithium B - beryl Chr- chrysoberyl...base metal deposits, precious metals, diamonds, gold, industrial minerals and hydrocarbons. A detailed...tsavorite, cut from rough found at the mine in 1 983. Scorpion mine, Tsavo National Park, Voi, Taita-TavetaCounty...three countries also have economic tin-tungsten and gold deposits, and these have yielded some interesting...place there since 1920 and there are deposits of gold and platinum, as well as other metals such as tantalum
Book
PART I. METALLIC MINERALS. Gold. Only one true mineral species of gold has up to the present been found...found in New South Wales, and that is :— Native Gold. Cubical system. Well developed crystals are very...at a mine near Wagga Wagga, the plates are so exceedingly thin that they form mere films like gold-leaf...red-coloured slate in which they occur. Then again, gold occurs in New South Wales, as elsewhere, so finely...be invisible even by the aid of a lens. As alluvial gold it occurs in more or less rounded and waterworn
Report (chapter)
Ore Deposits, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia *Correspondence: macle45@gmail.com The aim of...transported and deposited as placer deposits in alluvial sediments. Examples of the primary-type gems are...precious gemstones from primary deposits include spinel in marble (Mogok), peridot in dunite/peridotite...gemstones include ruby, sapphire, jadeite, diamond, spinel, zircon, aquamarine, tourmaline, topaz and amber...continuation of the Triassic I–S-type granites of northern Thailand (Cobbing et al. 1992). U–Pb SHRIMP dates
Journal (issue)
OF CRYSTAL INCLUSION WITHIN A DARK BLUE SPINEL Dark Blue Spinel RI 1.715 Oval Brilliant Cut l.OOct. Photographs...embedded in the " seed " plate. 100 wire hook Gold in Britain By Nigel W. Kennedy, F.R.S.A., F.G.A...generations are unable to visualise a time when gold coinage, from the half-sovereign upwards, was in...classes of the community. For countless generations gold has been almost venerated as a precious metal, sometimes...attribute of preciousness is so closely associated with gold that one instinctively compares personal and other
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrope, rhodolite, spessartine, (chrome) titanite, spinel, ruby, sapphire, padparaja, tanzanite, zoisite...trap-site of gemstones (residual, eluvial, colluvial, alluvial, deltaic, aeolian, and marine shelf deposits)...pezzottaite (a) Chrysoberyl (b) Residual, colluvial, alluvial (fluvial). Argillaceous (kaolin) regolith (a)...colluvial, alluvial placers 3.2 5.0 Zirconium Zircon (hyacinth) Gemstone: residual to alluvial placers...(demantoid), almandine Gemstone: residual to alluvial placers. Industrial minerals: also in marine placers
Book
MINERALS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA by J. E. Johnson and J. M. Scrymgour * i *• 1 £• ? -ts-7. mm? m ty...Australian Year Book 1975“ Minerals of South Australia Contributed by J. E. Johnson and J. M. Scrymgour...Australian Museum The mineral potential of South Australia was recognised from almost the first days of the...the discovery of all kinds of mines, lead, copper, gold, silver, etc.’ The optimism of the founders proved...few miles from Adelaide, and the colony’s first mine, the Wheal Gawler, began operations in May of that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ASSOCIATIONS OF PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS FROM THE ZOLOTAYA GOLD PLACER, PRIMORYE, RUSSIAN FAR EAST GALINA G. SHCHEKA§...(PGM) and chromite composition of the Zolotaya River gold placer, in the Russian Far East, indicate a genetic...platinum-group minerals, Uralian–Alaskan-type complex, gold-bearing placers, platinum-group elements, Primorye...discovered at the end of the 19th century during gold placer mining on the territory of the Sof’e–Alexeevskoe...Cossacks. Over the interval 1900–1912, exploration for gold was carried out at four fields: Zolotaya and Baykal
Report (issue)
PHOSPHATE MINERALS OF VICTORIA W. D. Birch and D. A. Henry Editors Special photography by Francesco...Francesco Coffa THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA INC. SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 3. 7 Printed by McPherson's...Society of Victoria Inc. P.O. Box 12162, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne. Victoria. 3000 Australia (Tel. (03)...(03) 669 9892). National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 9594573 2 1 In this series: Special...Zeolites of Victoria. W. D. Birch (Editor). Copyright 1993. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria Inc. 11
Book
25 26 26 26 26 • • IV CONTENTS. - ANTIMONY GOLD- SILVER - - - - - - - ARSENIC .. - LEAD...Staffordshire Yorkshire .. Derbyshire •· - •· Northern Counties ... 26 27 27 28 EASTERN SIDE. -...• SILVER Native Silver Sulphides Chloride, &c GOLD - - -.. .. - - ... MERCURY - - &c. - ...usTRAt~u, continued (Pedestal Case, No. 11, West Side: Gold, &c.) EA.ST INDIES CANADA - -· - - - - NovA...Mines. Copper Ore. Tons. Co1·nwall and Devon Northern Counties - 190 - 9 Ireland l-"'l·ivate sales
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sydney, NSW 1797, Australia. Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. 3 New South...29–57 Christie Street, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia. 2 Diamonds from Brickclay Creek, near Walcha...Ellendale 4 diamonds from Cenozoic pipes in Western Australia. A model is proposed for their local origin from...subduction. INTRODUCTION Diamonds from eastern Australia, more specifically New South Wales, have enigmatic...extent of local eruptive contributions to the alluvial diamond concentrations remain controversial. Among
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 67(4), pp. 717–732 Al-rich diopside in alluvial ruby and corundum-bearing xenoliths, Australian...NSW 2010, Australia Cluff Resources Pacific NL, Locked Bag 3355, Hornsby, NSW 2077, Australia Gübelin...NSW 2006, Australia 7 Fairview Avenue, St Ives, Sydney, NSW 2075, Australia ABSTR ACT Alluvial rubies...River system, central eastern New South Wales, Australia. A pink to red suite contains Cr (up to 0.6 wt...corundum-bearing garnet granulite from Ruby Hill, Bingara, Australia. Clinopyroxenecorundum thermometry suggests the
Book (edition)
some of the collections are issued Museum, the Victoria specimens figured are in the mineral collection...Abandoned Open Workings of the Kimberley Diamond Mine at Kimberley, South Africa - IV. {a) Crystal...5* 124 - 136 - 150 Diamonds - inlaid with Gold, Rubies, and Emeralds VI. VIL VIIL Crystal of...with the glass. In manufactured gem corundum and spinel, wonderful colours have been produced by the addition...recent years may be mentioned here. When ruby or red spinel is exposed in a dark room to the ultra-violet rays
 
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