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Fluorite from
Red Granite quarry, Coles Bay, Glamorgan Spring Bay municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Polarised-light microscopy
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Red Granite quarry, Coles Bay, Glamorgan Spring Bay municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1211050
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1211050:4
GUID (UUID V4):1754a8fb-71b0-49cb-ab3a-f84ad7c7cbf4
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
68.2km (42.4 miles) Tasmanian United Uranium Mine, Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania, Australia
69.5km (43.2 miles) Aberfoyle Mine (Aberfoyle Tin Mine; Rossarden Tin Mine), Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania, Australia
69.8km (43.4 miles) Rex Hill Mine (Mt Rex Mine), Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania, Australia
73.7km (45.8 miles) Dead pig mine, Gipps Creek field, Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of calcite coated with limonite which fl. strong red (SW) equal to Franklin, N . J., calcite."—item dated...compared to some old quarry roads is a super highway! The x,!s are found in red clay and we found quite...bornite have been found in gabbro at the old Hubbard quarry in Wilmington (New Castle Co.), Del. FLORIDA—"I...been found in the Appalachian Minerals Company quarry near Monticello (Jasper Co.), Ga. IDAHO—"I am enclosing...sulphantimonite. ILLINOIS—-"Here is a specimen of fluorite from Cave in Rock, Illinois that will add to your
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West Germany) 'h ins f.3. 60 6 ALBITE rich orange red masses • with Hornblende.(KrageroNorway) 1x2 45p...CBastnasMine, Riddarhyttan,Sweden) 10 ALMANDINE red masses in green Omphacite. An attractive Eclogite...white crystals, well cov2ring Basalt. (Talisker Bay,Skye SC•:;tland) . ~:;1 5C;J 1x2 f1.10 2x2 !2.20... 1X1 80;:i 14 ALURGITE (variety of Muscovite) red fi1icaeousscales on matrix a (St M~rcel, Val d'Aosta...C. Can~da) 1 x ~ ins 70p lxl•tt.40 1x2t3,00 <Tasmania) 1x1 60p 1~2 f1.2u 31 APATITE var CHL0RH?~fl.L
Report (issue)
Toronto, and the Ontario Government Bookstore, 880 Bay Street, Toronto. Orders for publications should be...Ferrisymplesite............................................ Fluorite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Algoma, Cochrane, Ken ora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay; Ontario Dept. Mines and Northern Affairs, MRC13...57p. 1964e: Building Stones of Ontario, Part V, Granite and Gneiss; Ontario Dept. Mines, IMR19, 51p. 1965:...List Armstrong, H.S., and Gittins, J. 1970a: Glamorgan Township, Haliburton County, Ontario Dept. Mines
Report (issue)
occurrence Princess sodalite mine Vardy quarry Golding-Keene quarry Egan Chute occurrences York River tactite...tactite zone occurrence Morrison quarry Davis quarry York River corundum occurrence Childs Mine Rankin...Mine Woodcox occurrence Padwell Mine Eagle Lake quarry Crystal Lake fluoborite occurrence Crystal Lake...mine Richardson (Fission) mine Dwyer fluorite mine Schickler fluorite occurrence Tripp (Nu-Age) Mine Harcourt...Mine Tory Hill - Gooderham - Kinmount Hadley granite quarry Canadian All-Metals mine Gibson Road (western)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
goethite with some limonite and hematite, is found in red, yellow, or ocherous clay. In the Chandler mine was...millerite appears black. "Millerite from limestone quarry. Hamilton (Hancock Co.), Illinois." — on label...specimen which I found at the Cheapside Trap Rock Quarry in Deerfield (Franklin Co.), Mass. Will you please...production of the well known varieties of hematite — red, grey, and blue steel. However the specimens sent...across 3 pieces of jasper in yellow, brown, and brick red. "A large boulder when broken open yielded some yellow-green
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than helpful (e.g. "wine yellow", "aurora red" and "flesh red"), but it seems unwise to substitute another...Negligence has also led to errors, with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci...theVa'.e.D.I.,.!i~.E Treo,emine,StEndellion, Cornwall Red-a-·,en m:ne.!!.e'.:!o:i. Okeha'T1;)'.0 De:o:-~ :::...specimens of crystallized gold from K.anowna.Western Australia, and Kingsbury's specimens labelled "Porthcurnick
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...from Johannes Menge who was appointed Mine and Quarry Agent to the South Australian Company in 1836.
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diatomite, dimension stone, dolomite, feldspar, fluorite, gemstones, gypsum, kaolin, limestone, magnesite... Cover photo: David Mitchell Limited limestone quarry at Lilydale, looking east. Urban development surrounds...coloured Cave Hill Sandstone can be seen in the upper quarry faces, unconformably overlying the darker coloured...manufactured at the plant located adjacent to the quarry. (Photograph courtesy of David Mitchell Limited)...stone 55 9 Dolomite 68 10 Feldspar 71 11 Fluorite 78 12 Gemstones 83 13 Gypsum 90 14 Kaolin
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Dea anal nekce OR Re OpieinTS Roa Te amer nr Senne red Val Norihernslncianavern merce. cera ee ecco n tens...knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting. Thanks too...silver, gold, coal, gravel, clay, quartz, gypsum, granite, salt, and more. : Climate is an important factor...humid. Most residents prefer collecting in the spring or fall. Tornadoes and severe storms are possible...standard prospector's pick. If the hunt is in a quarry for fossils which must be worked out of thick limestone
Report (issue)
Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria, Australia. Sir ROBERT HADFIELD, Bart., lately President...Canada • • • • Australasia: Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand , il' 57 ,I CONTENTS CHAPTER...those of the Dutch Indies, Germany, China and Australia. Before the war, smelting was carried on in Germany...days, are the United I{:ingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Italy and Belgium. The...deep brown to black colour, but it is sometimes red (ruby tin), yellow (rosin tin), and may even be colourless
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
702, Wasilla, Alaska. Among the pebbles we found red jasper, brownish quartz, milky quartz, whitish chalcedony...chalcedony, black basanite, gray gneiss and pinkish granite. These are all very nice with a good polish and...malachite. COLORADO — "At the Longfellow mine in Red Mountain Pass between Silverton and Ouray in southwest...seems to be a green coating on the tips of some and red, green and black specks on some." — letter dated...quartz crystals are probably hematite. Hexagonal red. Not rutile — which is tetragonal. Not brookite —
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
District of Yuma Co., Ariz. The specimens are fluorite (group of small grayish cubes most of which are...galena (lustrous cleavage mass with faint purple fluorite cleavage) ; vanadinite (lustrous, drusy, brownish...strongly radioactive microlite occurs at the Slocum quarry in E. Hampton. A few of the octahedral crystals...Griesbach, 12217 Centerhill St., Wheaton, Silver Spring, Md. "In one of the goethite and limonite concretions...found on the beach at Franklin Park on Chesapeake Bay (near Deale), Anne Arundel Co., Md. MASSACHUSETTS—"I
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
also found in the rock. The pink will fluoresce red under a short wave Mineralight." for the first time...subsoil it is red sand, one rock out crops near the tower sandstone heavily stained red. Would you like...like a sample of the red sand?" Three large clippings on Florida's mineral resources have been sent in...Grayish-brown twinned xls of staurolite with tiny dark red garnet xls embedded in them, occur at West Jasper...Street, Phoenix, Ariz." ILLINOIS—One of the nicest fluorite specimens from Illinois that we ever saw, was
Report (issue)
POWER OF OUR IDEAS COVER Left: Amethyst - Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specimen measures 4.5 cm across the base...50263. GSC 204977-1 Right: Gypsum (selenite) - Red River Floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Specimen measures...deposits Occurrences east of Sudbury Falcon Mine Wanup quarry Elizabeth Mine Wahnapitei occurrences MacDonald...Page occurrence Warren quarry Occurrences along Highway 86 Wanapitei Lake quarry Vermilion River placer...occurrence McMillan Mine Wallace Mine Sheguiandah quarry Shakespeare Mine Massey Mine Hermina Mine Elliot
Report (issue)
RESOURCES BULLETIN 23 DIMENSION STONE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA Volume 1 INDUSTRY REVIEW AND DIMENSION STONES...by JM Fetherston DIMENSION STONE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA VOLUME 1 INDUSTRY REVIEW AND DIMENSION STONES...OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 23 DIMENSION STONE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA VOLUME 1 INDUSTRY...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tim Griffin REFERENCE The recommended reference...Fetherston, JM, 2007, Dimension stone in Western Australia: Volume 1 — Industry review and dimension stones
Report (Issue volume)
the original occurrence. Socialite from Princess Quarry at Bancroft, Ontario at one time had a considerable...Permission should be sought before entering a mine, quarry or other private property; in active mining areas...when collecting in some areas, particularly in the spring and early summer. The essential tool for removing...crystals occur with quartz and molybdenite in granite at former molybdenite workings near Pabineau Lake...as veinlets up to 2 inch thick in quartz and in red argillite. Concretions measuring up to :} inch by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
apatite, beryl, clinozoisite, corundum, epidote, fluorite, garnet, graphite, hornblende, kyanite, magnetite...Street Pike Quarry, Little Rock, Ark. Some years ago I had the pleasure of collecting at this quarry and would...the better known accessory minerals found in the quarry is reddish brown titanite, found in flat crystals...the rock we often found small purple cubes of fluorite (y4 in.) and pyrite (]4 in.). One piece of the...locality is the Bender Farm, west side of Tómales Bay, Marin Co., Calif. COLORADO — The following letter
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...which are coated by rutile or hematite are yellow or red and earthy; they are equant to short-prismatic, and...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing...PORTUGAL Montijos quarry, Monte Redondo, Leiria Estremadura. The Montijos gabbro quarry at Monte Redondo
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 permitted...written permission from the Government of South Australia available through the Department for Manufacturing
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...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...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 12 THE TIN DEPOSITS OF ~ E S T E...Minister for Mines 77793-1 i National Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 7617 2 11 PREFACE...tin fields are related to plutons of “younger” granite led to detailed petrographic and geochemical investigations...interested in searching for tin deposits in Western Australia. J H Lord 19th June 1978. DIRECTOR iii CONTENTS............. ... ... . . Tin mining in Western Australia .............................................
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fatima quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemin des Buttes quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...John's - Channel- Port aux Basques White Hills quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Logy Bay amethyst occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Torbay quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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McCloskey Field feldspar occurrence Canada Cement quarry Forsyth Mine Baldwin Mine Headley Mine Cantley...Blanche Mine Blackburn Mine McLelland Mine Cote quarry Dacey Mine Horseshoe Mine Kitty Lynch, Kodak mines...Caverns Lake Girard Mine Wakefield quarry Breckin Mine Templeton quarry Seybold Mine Gemmill Mine Deziel...Mine St-Pierre-de-Wakefield quarry McGlashan Mine Leduc Mine Lachaine quarry Evans-Lou Mine Old Chelsea-Gatineau...Chamberlin quarry Road-cuts along Gatineau Parkway Sweeney Mine O'Neill Mine McConnell Mine Cross quarry Maxwell
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TO THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA N. H. LUDBROOK HPRM 2018D037863 Cover Parabarana...Energy South Australia A GUIDE TO THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA by N. H. LUDBROOK...Energy D. J . WOOLMAN, Government Pri nter South Australia , 1980 Frontispiece Cliffs of the Murray River.... . . . . . 46 Geological History of South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47...of South Australia .. . ...... . .... . . 16 Fig . 2 Main structural elements of Australia . . . .
as a volcano. An example of intrusive rock is granite while an extrusive example could be basalt. Sedimentary...and chlorine). Examples are halite, sylvite and fluorite, quite common minerals. Oxide groups: Minerals...mineral samples. For example, steelgrey hematite has a red-brown streak, while steel-grey molybdenite has a...diamond Dull or earthy: not shiny or brilliant, e.g., red hematite, clay Greasy or oily: not shiny, not bright...is as follows: | talc, 2 gypsum, 3 calcite, 4 fluorite, 5 apatite, 6 feldspar, 7 quartz, 8 topaz, 9 corundum
 
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