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Copper from
Biggenden Mine, Mount Biggenden, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Biggenden Mine, Mount Biggenden, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:203377
Long-form Identifier:1:3:203377:8
GUID (UUID V4):481e2c92-51db-4ecd-857d-957564eb778d
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
37.0km (23.0 miles) Mount Rawdon Mine, Mount Perry, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
W. 2351, Australia 2 Department of Geology, University of Newcastle, N.S.W. 2308, Australia Abstract...target, which, in the Tasman Fold Belt of eastern Australia, has been manifest in the search for Cu, Zn, Au...operations (e.g. Red Dome and Browns Creek (Au), Biggenden (magnetite), King Island and Kara (W) and Renison...sulphidebearing Ban Ban skarn in southeastern Queensland (25°47'S, 151°58'E; Ashley 1980), the Sn-bearing...1976; Barnes 1983; Plimer 1984a, 1986), Pegmont, Queensland (Vaughan and Stanton 1986), Broken Hill, Aggeneys
Book (volume)
Chalcopyrite) Cata Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,...Amethyst (scepter) Goboboseb Mts., Brandberg, Erongo Region, Namibia, 60 (on Quartz) Jackson Crossroads, Wilkes...Apatite (with Bikitaite) Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, 46 Oaksaungtaung, Pein-Pyit...Div., Myanmar, 22 Aphthitalite PCA Intrepid Potash Mine, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 22 Axinite (Magnesio-Axinite)...Pakistan, 7 Azurite (& Malachite) "Sams Pocket", Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 20-21 Bastnaesite (on Calcite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BanBanZincDeposit,A Sulfide-bearing Skarn, Southeast Queensland, Australia P.M. ASHLEY Abstract Skarn lensesat the...the Ban Ban zinc deposit, Queensland,are conformably enclosedin steeply dipping siliceousmetasedimentaryrocks..._+magnetite assemblagecontaining low Cu to the north and at depth, passing sharply along strike into...1975), culthe Perry fault, particularly porphyry copper-type minatingin the delineationof a strataboundzinc...the Ban Ban district, the low-grade regional Queensland(Fig. 1). metamorphosed Biggendenbeds appear to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Coalst(u P(n'plyryCopperProspect, Southeast Queensland, Australia P.M. ASHLEY, W. G. BILLI>4C•:OX,R. L. GRA•4A•r...pectin southeastQueensland lies adjacentto the north-northwest-trending Perry fault zone near the intersectionwith...sericite-clay alteration with sporadic tourmaline. Copper grades decrease outward from the biotite zone,...significantsecondary coppersulfidedevelopment. Introduction copper (-molybdenum) prospects with porphyry in the Tasman...has led to the discoveryof numerous of eastern Queensland (e.g., Lacy, 1974a; Ford 945 946 ,4SHLEY,BILLINGTON
Report (issue)
List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject Index, p....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...to as “ 30 miles from A,” “ 40 miles from B,” “ north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
volcanic-intrusive complex at Mt. Shamrock-Mt. Ophir, SE Queensland P.J. Wilfiams Department of Geologyand Key Centre...Geology,James Cook Universityof North Queensland, Townsville,Q4811, Australia Received: April 18, 1989/Accepted:...mineralization in the Mt-Shamrock Mt. Ophir area of SE Queensland is related to a geographically-isolated calc-alkaline...Brisbane in SE Queensland (Fig. 1). At the time of writing the area formed part of Queensland State Authority...while the author was employed by BP Minerals Australia during a previous joint venture between that company
Report (issue)
Experanza Exploration's Red Dome deposit, Queensland, Australia. These and many other deposits have been...g/tonne. These deposits include: Tennent Creek, Australia; Landusky-Zortman, Montana; Ertsberg, Indonesia;...Island Copper, British Columbia; Ban Na Lorn, Thailand; and others. Although the Mt. Biggenden, Austrialia...Au ore. Total Au production to 1969 from Mt. Biggenden is more than 7,000 oz, of which 5,751 oz were...known in the Moina Mining District, Tasmania, Australia, which is largely known for its Sn-W skarn and
Book
Prospectors' Cuide to· in Australia A Prospectors' ·G uide to in Australia N. 8 R._Perry BY THE SAME...Gemstones in Australia Practical Gemcutting Prospectors' Guide to Gemstones in Australia AH&AW REED PTY...Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Perry, Ron Prospectors' guide to gold in Australia. Includes...50328 6. I. Prospecting - Australia. 2. Gold mines and mining - Australia. I. Perry, Nance. II. Title...crystals, 'flour', 'mustard', impurities in (silver, copper, lead, arsenic, sulphur), sulphide lodes, nuggets
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Victoria GPO Box 666 Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia dhenry@museum.vic.gov.au D efining “classic”...agree, however, that opal is synonymous with Australia (see Pecover in press) and that Broken Hill in...silvers (Chapman and Scott 2005). The New England region of northeastern New South Wales is famous for molybdenite...across, Elura (Endeavor) deposit, 43 kilometers north-northwest of Cobar, New South Wales. green pyromorphite...(McColl 1980). The large mimetite specimens from Mount Bonnie are discussed below, as are the world-class
Report (issue)
hydrothermal vein deposits, in tourmaline-bearing copper deposits in granite, in some gold veins formed...Mexico. In the USA, large crystals at the Victoria mine, Dolly Varden district, Elko Co.; in a number of...in Cornwall, England. In the Mt. Biggenden mine, Queensland, Australia. At Fefena, Madagascar. Exceptional
Journal (issue)
Newnham 10 Heyington Close, Croydon Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile (03) 9723 5041...Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 3, Number...Articles: The Coolgardie pegmatite field, Western Australia Mark I. Jacobson ......................... 91...M11se11111 ofVic10ria Associate Editors The Daydream Mine, Silverton, N.S.W. John D. Leach .................associated with ironstones in the Olary region, South Australia P.M. Ashley, B.G. Lottermoser, K.M. Scott
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Magnetite Zinc Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological...covered minerals critical to the availability of copper and tin for bronze and those peripherally related...recent decades have come not from a New York iron mine but from one of its interesting zinc mines. One...fine specimen from the Zinc Corporation of America mine No. 4 at Balmat. Magnetite is one of many black...several stand out. The famous Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County (see Cook 2008 and
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
Report (volume)
Schematic cross sections of Au-skarn deposits in north-central Nevada 8 Map showing distribution of Au-skarn...geological provinces in the cordillera of western North America 10 Map showing worldwide distribution of...complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...representative samples from five Au-bearing skarn systems in north-central Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges...samples from three Au-bearing skarn systems in north-central Nevada 17 Photomicrograph showing massive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TASMAN FOLD BELT SYSTEM IN QUEENSLAND C.G. MURRAY Geological Survey of Queensland, G.PO. Box 194, Brisbane...Brisbane, Qld. 4001 (Australia) (Accepted for publication F e b r u a r y 26, 1986) Abstract Murray, C.G....o p m e n t of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland. In: E. Scheibner (Editor), Metallogeny and T...T e c t o n i c Development of Eastern Australia. Ore Geol. Rev., 1: 315--400. The n o r t h e r n part...part of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland comprises three segments, the T h o m s o n , Hodgkinson--
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...of a small -kimbcrlite intrusion in the Koetong region. Pyrope garnet could not have been derived from...Lcggo. op.cit.). Thus the igneous rocks in the region appear to have formed and equilibrated in the upper
Journal (issue)
:.octa1ion ,, .itlt copper nuneralisation in the We.\111·ood area of Queensland, rltmralia. ,.J hnef... in t he area of Westwood. near Rockhampton. Queensland. The find " a, dc,cnh..:d h) Shepherd ( 1 956)...palladium of pos,1 blc economic im pnrta nc..: i n Queensland. The mi neralisation occur, i n mall irregular...5.6-0 2 ( g tonne) ,ilver 1 1 2-4.2 ( g' tonne} copper 4. 3Sr 10 0. 1cc palladium 8.5- 2.8 ( gl tonne)... BACK-SCATTERED ELECTRON GOLD PALLADI UM S I LVER COPPER PLATI NUt'i Fig. I. /Ja, h•\/·t111ert•cl ,·lt"ctr1111
Journal (issue)
FERROAN JOHANNSENITE FROM THE NORTH MINE, BROKEN HILL, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA W.R. Ryall CSI RO Division of...of M ineralogy, P.O. Box 1 36, North Ryde, N.S. W. 2 1 1 3, and Albert Chapman 290 G lebe Point Road,...cavity on the 12th level of the Zinc Corporation mine. Binns ( 1968) reported asbestiform bustamite from...oft he New Broken H ill Consolidated (N .B.H.C.) mine in 1966. This material was very fine­ grained with...but being only 10 to 20 micrometres in width. NORTH BROKEN HILL BUSTAMITE AND JOHANNSENITE Bustamite
Book
PALAONTOLOGY OF QUEENSLAND AND NEW GUINEA, WITH SIXTY-KIGHT PLATES AND A GEOLOGICAL MAP OF QUEENSLAND. BY ... ROBERT GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST FOR L. JACK, QUEENSLAND; F.G.S., FORMERLY OF THE F.R.G.S., GEOLOGICAL..., Minister for Mines and Public Instruction, Queensland. BRISBANE: JAMES CHARLES BEAL, GOVERNMENT...the collection as a record of the Geology of Queensland up to date. My labours in the field, occupying...say that this beau ideal has been reached in Queensland. In every country, and especially in every new
Report (issue)
only in Queensland and New South Wales. In Queensland, bismuth deposits exist at Mount Biggenden, Mount...inclusive, 452 tons of ore were exported from Queensland. The great bulk of the bismuth of commerce comes...the Kingsgate deposits in 1883, and in 1889 the Mount Mitchell deposits, near Griencoe, were reported...of Mines, has mentioned the association of iron, copper, and arsenical pyrites, as well as zinc blende...Broken IIiU.—8ee Mount Gripps. See Norongo. Captain s Flat. Cobar. Nine samples of copper ore from the Great
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(veins) - W Cornwall (England) Ukalunda (Queensland) Meymac hydrothermal (France) veins - Ag-Co-Ni...District) Sin Loa (Mexico) (Italy) Kilkivan (Queensland) exhalative-fumarolic - Pb-Bi Vulcano Contact...(Sweden), M a r a v i c z a Dranunen (Norway) copper hydrothermal alteration - CU E1 T e n i e n...Ukalunda the sulfides were determined by a gas(Queensland) with +3.3O/oo, Jiangxi mass-spectrometer measuring... Collection Location W Ukalunda mineral (Queensland) Science (CSSR), Praha, + 3.3 W-Bi-mineralization
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abandoned quarries between Auckland and the tip of the North Island. Karl was known as a flamboyant character...Blue Bell mine on Sunday, under the guidance of Dr. Robert Housley. As with most other North American...podium to speak on Collapse Breccia Pipes—A Unique Copper Mineral Occurrence in Arizona, USA. Ray’s concentration...These have led to the accumulation of secondary copper and, sometimes, uranium minerals. Next up was Robert...Treasures, an exposition of the photomicrographs and mine views taken by Hall of Fame member Bill Hunt, now
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology and Mineralogy, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4o67 SUMMARY.Hydrothermal ruffles...ruffles from a suite of rocks at Mount Perry, Queensland, have been studied in thin section, by electron microprobe...previously described occurs in the Mount Perry district, eastern Queensland, located at 25 ~ Iz' N. I5 I~...assemblages, petrography, and petrogenesis o f the Mount Perry deposit will be published elsewhere (Wilson...of the geology is included here for clarity. The Mount Perry deposit has been briefly examined in the past
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the iron skarns of the Traversella magnetite mine (Western Alps, Italy) was studied by reflected-light...at least the sixteenth century and for iron and copper since the eighteenth century (Gruppo Mineralogico...cobaltbearing sulphide arsenide assemblage from the Nord Mine (Finnshytteberg), Sweden: a new occurrence of clinosafflorite...Geology of the Mount Biggenden gold and bismuth mine and environs. Geological Survey of Queensland, Report no...no. 32, Queensland Department of Mines, 16 pp. Compagnoni, R., Dal Piaz, G.V., Hunziker, J.C., Gosso
Journal (issue)
MINELAB Torrensville Visit our website South Australia 5031 www.ml11el1luom FOUR DAYS IN THE TRIANGLE...1;11LO GEM & THEASUHE 4 TREASURE ENTERPRISES OF AUSTRALIA Leading Specialists in Prospecting & Treasure...Credit Cards accepted . TREASURE ENTERPRISES OF AUSTRALIA 48 - 50 Henley Street, Coopers Plains, Brisbane...another farm some 25km away where there had been a mine that had closed down and the owner had had to spread...anywhere in Australia. Visit our well-stocked shop situated in the best nugget fields in Australia. Advice
 
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