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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Biggenden Mine, Mount Biggenden, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:203378
Long-form Identifier:1:3:203378:5
GUID (UUID V4):4ad094b0-f3c4-4afe-b70a-8798ab7a0fc7
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
26.2km (16.3 miles) Ban Ban zinc deposit, Gayndah, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia
References
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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
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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...the Ban Ban district, the low-grade regional Queensland(Fig. 1). metamorphosed Biggendenbeds appear to...presentsnew geological,mineralogical, divisions of the Biggenden beds are evident; one and geochemicalinformationfrom
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;...Lorn, Thailand; and others. Although the Mt. Biggenden, Austrialia magnetite-bismuth-gold skarn is classified...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
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
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cookrob@auburn.edu Magnetite Zinc Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological...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...deep in the Zinc Corporation of America’s No. 4 mine at Balmat, St. Lawrence County, is well known for
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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
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from the iron skarns of the Traversella magnetite mine (Western Alps, Italy) was studied by reflected-light...anhydrous silicates such as garnet, clinopyroxene (diopside hedenbergite) and forsterite ( wollastonite,...forsterite and of tremolite at the expense of diopside (Vander Auwera and Andre, 1991). The second stage...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
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Wales, Australia A. S . ANDREW*, DepartmentofCeology& Geophysics, UniwrsityofSyahey, Australia Abstract...Ca-rich (amphibole +garnet + diopside; diopside plagioclase; garnet + diopside wollastonite) rocks. The chemistry...Wales; P-T-X (CO,) conditions. 1NTRODUCTlON In the region of Diamond Hill near Oberon, New South Wales (Fig...of Mineralogy, CSIRO, PO Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia. grade into the thermal aureole of...the Orijarvi area (Eskola, 1915) and in eastern Australia (Vallance, 1967, 1969a; Irving & Ashley, 1976;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Treasures, an exposition of the photomicrographs and mine views taken by Hall of Fame member Bill Hunt, now...February, is probably the most unstructured in North America, but that suits folks just fine. Figure...satisfied themselves that warmer weather was heading north, micromounters began to do the same, winding up
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
remnants of an early Permian volcanic arc in eastern Australia W.J. SIVELL ~and J.B. WATERHOUSE z ( "entre/~r...~Department o/Geology and Mineralogy, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld. 4067 (A ustralia) LITHOS Sivell...remnants of an early Permian volcanic arc in eastern Australia. Lithos, 21:81-95. Marie phenocryst-rich basalt...volcanic sequence of the Gympie Group, southeast Queensland. Geochemical data imply three distinct c~stallisation...association not present elsewhere in eastern Australia. Chiefly basaltic pyroclastic rocks, together
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
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...County, California, USA and in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Fine dendritic aggregates occurred in the Hope's...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from
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CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 Australia 14. G.BAR DOSS Y KARSTIC BAUXITES 15. A.W. ROSE..."Broadly regarded, the depth ta which a metalliferous region has been eroded affects its present characteristics...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Buddington (1959) in his classical paper on the North American granites, proposed a three-fold depth subdivision...Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay) straddle the intrusive contacts and
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(Arizona), Tsumeb (Namibia) and Surra Burra (Australia). C Cu Colour: light rose-red on fresh surface... and one of 93kg (2051b), found in Hill End (Australia). Gold is found in igneous rocks, often associated...(South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia. G Au Colour: characteristi...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...mining areas include the Argyle pipe (Western Australia), Kimberley (South Africa), Golconda (India),
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(Arizona), Tsumeb (Namibia) and Surra Burra (Australia). C Cu Colour: light rose-red on fresh surface... and one of 93kg (2051b), found in Hill End (Australia). Gold is found in igneous rocks, often associated...(South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia. G Au Colour: characteristi...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...mining areas include the Argyle pipe (Western Australia), Kimberley (South Africa), Golconda (India),
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CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 Australia 14. G.BÄRDOSSY KARSTIC BAUXITES 15. A.W. ROSE..."Broadly regarded, the depth to which a metalliferous region has been eroded affects its present characteristics...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Buddington (1959) in his classical paper on the North American granites, proposed a three-fold depth subdivision...Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay) straddle the intrusive contacts and
Report (issue)
• • • • India • • • Republic of Cyprus Australia • New Hebrides New Zealand COBALT DEPOSITS IN...• • • • China • • • • • Japan • • • • • Korea (North and South) • Laos • • • • • Nepal • • • • • Persia...deposits of Canada . . . . Cobalt occurrences in Australia . . . . Cobalt mines and treatment plant, Katanga...Selection Trust Ltd.; Rhokana Corporation Ltd.; Rhoanglo Mine Services Ltd.; Anglo-American Corporation of South...Rhodesia and Canada with a small proportion from Australia, but of the total, about 660 tons of cobalt was
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...Lithiophorite from the Kalgoorlie District, Wes tern Australia -1. Ostwald That Elusive Stichtite - Keith Lancaster...and RA. Ball Scorodite from Dome Rock, South Australia - E.R. Segnit Jacobsite and Magnetite from Broken
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Branch Chairmen: Midlands Branch: J. Leek, FGA North-West Branch: R. Perrett, FGA South Yorkshire & District...Mohammedan merchants of Mannar and Mantota [in the north-west of Sri Lanka] received into the immense warehouses...are four controls border. Mineral exploration in north-central on the distribution of the green gemstone...Lithology: the garnets are confined to graphitic north-east of Baragoi (Figure 1, Key, 1987). gneisses...centraltions necessary for metamorphic mineral growth: north Kenya a similar metasedimentary sequence favourable
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localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...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...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...geographical abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is....by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)
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Bolivia's Case for the League of Xations 2^1 Greenside Mine. Borlase, W. H Emmons and Grnner (m.d.). . 2r)3...(m.d.).,.. (m.d.) Cam Marth, Geology of j . Australia, Gold Stealing in 309 36, 73 Camborne War Memorial... in Hungary 73 Anglo-Persian Oil Co. in West Australia 10 Anglo-Persian Oil Co.'s Concession in Ne^vfoundland...Cobalt Brasses (m.d.) Cobalt Deposit near Selwvn, Queensland 31, 09, 162, 225, 293. 358 Cobalt, Ontario (m...at Repqft Dolcoath Mine Dolcoath's Financfs Dolcoath's Future Dollv Varden Mine Draper, Murray "211
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specimen its magnetic axis always points to the north pole. Thus, by using accurately positioned speci-...Belt’ in Zaire and Zambia; and in Bura-Bura Mine, Australia. Sedimentary copper is found in schists near...near Mansfeld, GDR, and in large deposits north-west of Wroclaw,Poland. Primary native copper originates... France; Blagodat, Urals, USSR; Broken Hill, Australia, and elsewhere. Rich deposits have been found...(some 20 per cent of world production), and in Australia (Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie). In Europe, the most
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specimen its magnetic axis always points to the north pole. Thus, by using accurately positioned specimens...Belt' in Zaire and Zambia; and in Bura-Bura Mine, Australia. Sedimentary copper is found in schists near...near Mansfeld, GDR, and in large deposits north-west of Wroclaw,Poland. Primary native copper originates... France; Blagodat, Urals, USSR; Broken Hill, Australia, and elsewhere. Rich deposits have been found...(some 20 per cent of world production), and in Australia (Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie). In Europe, the most
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specimen its magnetic axis always points to the north pole. Thus, by using accurately positioned specimens...Belt' in Zaire and Zambia; and in Bura-Bura Mine, Australia. Sedimentary copper is found in schists near...near Mansfeld, GDR, and in large deposits north-west of Wroclaw,Poland. Primary native copper originates... France; Blagodat, Urals, USSR; Broken Hill, Australia, and elsewhere. Rich deposits have been found...(some 20 per cent of world production), and in Australia (Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie). In Europe, the most
 
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