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Fluorapatite from
Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Springcreekite2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Springcreekite at this locality.
Cuprite1 photo of Fluorapatite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:27086
Long-form Identifier:1:3:27086:7
GUID (UUID V4):f8d7d0b2-1451-4860-a4be-363127a76565
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
59.8km (37.2 miles) Hicks Quarry, Gladstone, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
92.4km (57.4 miles) Iron Monarch Main Pit, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Spring Creek mine, southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. 3.073 (100), 5.90 (90)...0.21 0.09 94.67 (1) Spring Creek mine, southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia; electron microprobe...bariosincosite, fluorapatite. Distribution: Spring Creek mine, near Wilmington, southern Flinders Ranges, South...South Australia [TL]. Name: For the mine that produced the studied specimens. Type Material: South Australian...Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia. References: (1) Kolitsch, U., M.R. Taylor, G.D. Fallon, and A. Pring
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Spring Creek mine, southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. 3.100 (100), 2.017...76 31.11 26.62 13.51 100.00 (1) Spring Creek mine, South Australia; average electron microprobe analysis...mitridatite, fluorapatite, baryte, springcreekite. Distribution: From the Spring Creek mine, near Wilmington...Wilmington, southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Name: The prefix, barrio, indicates the barium analog...analog of sincosite. Type Material: South Australian Museum, Adelaide. References: (1) Pring, A., U. Kolitsch
Report (issue)
taken from the Library NN GU 1900 TP CATALOGUE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIAN MINERALS: 1983 by R.J. Noble...Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue of South Australian minerals...(Robert John), 1946—supiic LIBRARY Catalogue of South Australian minerals: 1983. Bibliography. ISBN 0...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423
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 CONTENTS..... 51 Minerals from the Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia B. Beyer & P. Elliott .....Cuprite from Spring Creek, South Australia. The crystal is 3.5 mm across. Specimen: South Australian Museum...issue). Bruce co-authored the superb "Minerals of South Africa" book published re­ cently (see review in
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Belloite Cu(OH)Cl M ONOCLINIC Locality: An abandoned mine about 3 km west southwest of the village of Sierra...Biehlite (Sb,As)2MoO6 M ONOCLINIC Locality: The Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia (probably from the third oxidation...OH)2 M ONOCLINIC Locality: The abandoned manganese mine near Falotta, Graubünden, Switzerland. Occurrence:...Ba4Mn4Si6O18(OH)7Cl T ETRAGONAL Locality: The Cerchiara mine, near Faggiona village, val di Vara, La Spezia,...Mn–mixed-anion silicate chloride from the Cerchiara mine, northern Apennines, Italy. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie
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ARTICLES: Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1�):9-11 Definition...1(2):27 Minerals from. t� Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B. and Elliott, P...P. 2(2):57-70 The minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania. Haupt, J., Bottrill, R. and Sorrell, S. 1(1):3-19...Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Birch, W.D. 2(2):47-50 Post-mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit...The Great Australia Mine. Day, B. and . Beyer, B. 1(1):23-28 Part 2 - The Mount Cobalt Mine. Day, B. and
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Victoria GPO Box 666 Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia dhenry@museum.vic.gov.au D efining “classic”...synonymous with Australia (see Pecover in press) and that Broken Hill in western New South Wales is our...diversity of species (see Birch in press). New South Wales can claim ownership of several other occurrences...The Elura lead-zinc-silver deposit in western New South Wales has produced superb groups of green mimetite...2005). The New England region of northeastern New South Wales is famous for molybdenite specimens from the
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Volcanic zeolites and associated minerals from New South Wales ............................................the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ......................................................... 407 by A. Pring Broken Hill, New South Wales; a brief review ............................Minerals from the Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales ............................................Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ...........................
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time heading northeast and arrived at the mercury mine we intended to explore near Lake Greeson just after...was probably barite, but it turns out to be fluorapatite on EDS analysis. We worked for almost two hours...cleaning a batch of interesting quartz from Collier Creek. He complained that this was the third time he had...by a soft black manganese mineral fro m Collier Creek. I gor one specime n. they were not cheap. and Mike...after 4:00 p.m. Then we ~ headed back east and south to Malvern. I collected over four . . , flat s of
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...Isa District, Queensland Part 3 - The Mount Oxide mine ............ B. Day & B. Beyer 3 Zeolites and...England The Francis Collection A. Pring 21 Post mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit...from Sabine's Shaft, Mount Bonnie mine. 44 km north-west of Pine Creek. Northern Territory. The specimen
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on the Hastie's property as well as several other mine dumps to o btain samples. In addition to Hal and...Furdock for sharing the ir room a nd watching my mine rals on occasion when I did ste p o ut to gather...is new. There new barites from a Meikle Complex mine that t hey bo ug ht aw Hydraulic Rock Trimmer...cabi net size pyromorphite from Yang Suo Gui Lin Mine, Guangxi Province, China. We've seen these for a...Germany). had barite with stibiconite, from Xikuangshan Mine, Hunan, China. These have 1 to 2 inch crystals similar
Journal (issue)
San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring the mine for minerals...minerals. The San Pedro Mine is perhaps best known for producing beautiful specimens of finely crystalline...Phillip have also developed a surface exposure at the mine to produce some very nice, single, sceptered quartz...the time to sit back and reminisce about those spring, summer, and fall field trips; at the same time...ci rc ulatio n for some years. Sulfides are real mine rals and I still regret no t buy ing a good specimen
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...21:235-248 ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft)...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G
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MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC INTRUSIONS OF EAST KIMBERLEY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT MINERALIZATION...M. HOATSON Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Abstract A number of Paleoproterozoic...central part of the Halls Creek orogen of East Kimberley, Western Australia, have been explored for platinum...members and relatively poor in Cl (<20 mole%). Fluorapatite occurs in the more evolved igneous rocks and...mafic-ultramafic intrusions of the East Kimberley, Western Australia, have been recently extensively summarized by
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France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony...Large barite crystals from the Elandsrand gold mine, South A fr ic a .....................................Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Museum, Himalaya mine $10 (Brazil), Bosch Collection $10 v.9/#5 Turkish...Hydroboracite (CA) $10 v v .10/#5 Thomas & Wah Wah Ranges (Utah) (famous for Topaz, Red Beryl, etc) $10 ...Pit (PA-MD), Mcguinnessite v Pereta Mine (Italy), Cetine Mine (Italy) v Mineral Fraud, LeadhillsWanlockhead
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microcline (sunstone), magnetite, quartz, fluorite, fluorapatite; C. Lyon Mountain, Chateaugay iron mines (44°43'02"N...(44°43'02"N, 73°54'39"W): hastingsite, fluoro-edenite, fluorapatite, biotite, calcite, gypsum, microcline, augite...“mountain leather"), axinite; C. Millerton, Maltby mine: goethite; F. Millerton, road cut on State Rte....Shekomeko: tetrahedrite; F. Erie County Alden, Spring Creek (42°54'15"N, 78°29'11"W): pyrite (nodules and...shale); S. Essex County Bloomingdale, Leibs moonstone mine: orthoclase, diopside, graphite, vesuvianite; C
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...with both enclosed in square brackets, e.g. fluorapatite Ca[Fl(PO 4)3] or euchroite 0.1 2[OHIAsO 4]•3H...sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica),...pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For some...Georgetown, Clear Creek co., and at Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New
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[University of Connecticut] at 20:42 14 January 2015 South Dakota is perhaps best known for its pegmatites...Hills are responsible for the accessibility of South Dakota’s itbundant and diverse mineral locations...including gold. However. except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most...continue to be made. The most complete mineralogy of South Dakota and the Black Hills is found in Roberts and...965). Some uncited mineral species are from the South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology. Noteworthy
Book
Industrial Minerals dredge pond, Lang Lang Deep lead mine dumps at Allendale Potential silica resource areas...Major monumental stone processors in southeastern Australia Granites with dimension stone potential, Victoria...production of each commodity, with the emphasis on Australia, is included to enable Victoria's known deposits...placed in the context of their importance to Australia and the world. Victorian production Past and...report, and to numbers in the Department’s general Mine and Mineral Occurrence data base. Under the heading
Report (volume)
(Japan) Gonzalo Veiga (Argentina) Maarten de Wit (South Africa) IUGS/GSL publishing agreement This volume...stratigraphic subdivision of Cryogenian successions of Australia in a global context 113 CONDON, D. J. & BOWRING...Kaigas and Numees formations, Port Nolloth Group, in South Africa and Namibia 223 FRIMMEL, H. E. The Karoetjes...Karoetjes Kop and Bloupoort formations, Gifberg Group, South Africa 233 Eurasia –Nubian Shield ALLEN, P. A...Member of the Boston Basin, Massachusetts, USA 475 South America CHEW, D. & KIRKLAND, C. The Chiquerı́o Formation
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Figure 1 (top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil...Figure 2 (above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil...Figure 3 (left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm on edge, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen...specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis Paris photo (2004). Figure 5 (far...barite specimens at the Elmwood zinc mine in middle Tennessee. This mine, opened in 1975, and other nearby
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Mineralogical Record, Inc., © 2022 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $40 plus...Collected by Reinhold Bacher; Reinhold Bacher photo. Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine...Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp
Report (issue)
mineral localities, with the minerals found at each mine or locality. Most mining districts and mineral localities...whole, along with those for which the specific area (mine, for instance) is not known. Other minerals, however...COUNTY GRAND COUNTY Ashbrook District (Grouse Creek Mountains). Box Elder District (Wasatch Mountains)...(Promontory Mountains). Rosebud District (Grouse Creek Mountains). Sierra Madre District (Wasatch Mountains)...District (Polar Mesa). Richardson District (Waring Creek). Thompsons District (S. E. Thompsons). Wilson Mesa
Thesis/Dissertation
intervening basins. South Italian, Italian and North Italian Mountains form a north-south line with the highest...Mountain area in Colorado. A=Aspen, B=Brush Creek thrust, C=Castle Creek fault, CB=Crested Butte, E=Elk Range...lead-silver ore and the Star Mine in 1878 (Garrett, 1950). The remoteness of the mine discouraged development...2711 lb (oz ?) Ag and 2 oz. Au (Roy, 1972). The mine is currently.being prospected by Dr, C. S. Livingstone...future. 4 The -Clara L. Mine, 300 m. south of the Star and the Stewart Mine in Stewart Basin were actively
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...not yet discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once they are discovered.................... Fluorine in phosphate and fluorapatite deposits..................... Fluorine in other.... ... ....... Washington-Idaho-Montana-Wyoming-South Dakota, by R. L. Parker................................. .. ..... .... .. ...... ... . Big Squaw Creek................................................
 
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