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Millerite from
Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Millerite
Formula:NiS
Comments:as fine inclusions in heazlewoodite and as alteration product of pentlandite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Magnetite40 photos of Millerite associated with Magnetite at this locality.
Heazlewoodite30 photos of Millerite associated with Heazlewoodite at this locality.
Pyrite8 photos of Millerite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Digenite4 photos of Millerite associated with Digenite at this locality.
Serpentine Subgroup2 photos of Millerite associated with Serpentine Subgroup at this locality.
Covellite2 photos of Millerite associated with Covellite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Millerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:27940
Long-form Identifier:1:3:27940:6
GUID (UUID V4):376b8a94-f1ba-44af-95a4-caa6411a79fc
Nearest other occurrences of Millerite
7.2km (4.5 miles) Savage River Mines, Corinna-Savage River district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
41.8km (26.0 miles) Colebrook Hill Mine, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
42.4km (26.3 miles) Serpentine Hill, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
44.4km (27.6 miles) Cuni mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
51.3km (31.9 miles) Avebury Nickel Deposit (Avebury mine), Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
52.6km (32.7 miles) Viking Orebody, Avebury Nickel Deposit (Avebury mine), Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
54.3km (33.8 miles) Nickel Reward Mine, Trial Harbour district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Corporate Document (Series)
A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill and W. E. Baker...Baker Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources E>...rossi'oilittes PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone (03) 6233 8377 Fax (03) 6233 8338 Email info@mrt...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrttas.gov.au ©Copyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Otwayite and theophrastite from the Lord Brassey Mine, Tasmania RECENT investigation of samples labelled...labelled zaratite from the Lord Brassey Mine, near Heazlewood, Tasmania, in the mineral collection of the... The Lord Brassey Mine is situated near the summit of Mt. Grey, 1.5 km northeast of the Waratah-Corinna...Waratah-Corinna Road bridge over the Heazlewood River, in western Tasmania. The mine is the type locality for two...consists of heazlewoodite with minor pentlandite and millerite generally intergrown with magnetite. In shear
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Otway deposit, Western Australia. 6.84 (10), 5.67 (8), 2.737 (6), 3.022 (5), 2...Total 100.00 100.00 (1) Otway deposit, Western Australia; by AA, colorimetry, and direct determination...(2) Ni2 (CO3 )(OH)2 • H2 O. (3) Lord Brassey mine, Tasmania, Australia; average of 14 analyses, (CO3 )2−...(Otway prospect, Western Australia; Lord Brassey mine, Tasmania, Australia). Association: Magnesite,...paraotwayite, millerite, polydymite, nickeloan chrysotile, apatite (Otway deposit, Western Australia); theophrastite
Journal (issue)
France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony...Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Pezzotta Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas...Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Benitoite, Gold L.A. County $12 Museum, Himalaya mine $12 (Brazil), Bosch
Report (issue)
7.139 Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia. 1.828 (10), 1.817 (10), 2.88 (9),...96 0.59 (2) 73.30 Total 99.23 (1) Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia. (2) Ni3 S2 . 100.00 Ni Fe S insol...Pentlandite, chalcopyrite, violarite, cubanite, millerite, mackinawite, orcelite, zaratite, shandite, awaruite...Distribution: In Australia, in Tasmania, from the Lord Brassey mine, near Heazlewood [TL], and at Trial...Oregon; and in California, crystals from the Dorleska mine, Trinity Co. In Canada, at Miles Ridge, Yukon Territory;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAY_JUNE, 1959 A NEW NICKEL CARBONATE FROM HEAZLEWOOD, TASMANIA K. L. Wrr.r,raus,I. M. TnnoatcolD ANDA...identified in samples from the old Lord Brassey nickel mine, at Heazlewood, Tasmania. It occurs as thin, pale blue...a visit by one of us (K.L.W.) to the old Lord Brassey Mine, near l{eazlewood in north-westernTasmania...1958).The heazlewoodite in placesis altered to millerite, and the pentlandite to violarite. The green mineral...conducted surveys and exploration in north-western Tasmania in the period 1826-1830. Hellyerite is the naturally
Report (issue)
P3m1 (synthetic). X-ray Powder Pattern: Vermion district" Greece. 2.335 (100),4.61 (95), 1.755 (50),2.708...== 4.608 (18),1.336 Z == 1 (10) (1) Vermion district, Greece; by electron microprobe, H20 by the Penfield...Ni(OH)2' (Vermion district, Greece); on Association: Magnetite, chromite, millerite, vesuvianite, chlorite...nickeliferous serpentine minerals, calcite (Vermion district, Greece); zaratite, reevesite, honessite, hydrohonessite...quarry, Scotland). Distribution: From the Verrnion district, 50 km west of Thessalonike, Macedonia, Greece
Report (issue)
electron microprobe analyses. (2) Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia; recalculated after removal of 1.28%...heazlewoodite, pentlandite, violarite, chromite, millerite (peridotites); kamacite, allabogdanite, schreibersite...Coolac, New South Wales, and in the Lord Brassey mine, Tasmania, Australia. From the Bobrovka River, Nizhni...California; and in the Line Pit mine, Cecil Co., Maryland. From the Lillooet district, Fraser River, British Columbia;
Report (issue)
Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA or Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia; diffuse pattern, probably of a mixture...alteration of chromite, pentlandite, pyrrhotite, and millerite in serpentinites and ultramafic rocks. Association:...Phillip’s chrome mine, West Nottingham, Chester Co. At Igdlokunguak, Greenland. In the Talmessi mine, 35 km west...Nelson, New Zealand. At the Lord Brassey mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia. In the Hagdale quarry, Unst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblage millerite-heazlewooditepentlandite. The Ni contentof pyrrhotiteand the Fe contentsof millerite and...studiedwith woodite solid solution, (Ni,Fe)aS•.; mls = millerite reflected-light microscopy, X-ray powderdiffraction...several data for pyrite, bravoite,violarite, millerite, godlevinstanceswhere different bulk compositions... 96, and pyrrhotite,hz = heazlewoodite, ml = millerite, mpo 104 andthe chargesKC-10, 11, 13, and 28....acrossCanada. Mostof the samples rhotite-pentlandite,and millerite-pyrite-pentlandite reflectsdifferences in equilibration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theophraste-zaratite formed possibly together with millerite (NiS) from heazlewoodite (Ni3 S2 ). This represents...theophrastite; zaratite; serpentinization; heazlewoodite; millerite; desulfurization; subduction; exhumation; Sanbagawa...association with nickel sulfides (heazlewoodite and millerite). The serpentinized (antigoritized) dunite from...nickel with nickel sulfides (heazlewoodite and millerite). Fujiwara aggregate seems ores. In this article...Awaruite and nickel sulfides (heazlewoodite and millerite) were found, associated with average. Awaruite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was discovered in the Eretria (Tsangli) chromium mine, located in the Othrys ophiolite complex. The formation...mineralization and magnetite at the Eretria (Tsangli) mine, is believed to be related to a circulating hydrothermal...vanadium were described in the abandoned chromite mine of Agios Stefanos of the Othrys ophiolite complex...grammatikopoulosite, NiVP [9], found in the chromite mine of Agios Stefanos (Figure 1), were approved by the...discovered in the abandoned Eretria (Tsangli) chromium mine, located in the eastern portion of the Othrys ophiolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of olivine from the McIvor Hill complex (Tasmania, Australia): Clues to the origin of the Avebury metasomatic...Sciences and CODES, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 2 School of Earth Sciences, University...Victoria 3010, Australia 3 Central Science Laboratory, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia...Quantum Minerals, West Perth, Western Australia 6005, Australia 1 Abstract Magmatic differentiation...serpentinite-hosted Avebury Ni sulfide deposit (Tasmania, Australia), the largest known non-magmatic sulfide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Texas, Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) and Heazlewood (Tasmania) were analyzed by electron-probe micro-analysis...either anhydrous zaratite (Ortegal), nullaginite (Tasmania) or gaspéite (Pennsylvania). The XRD patterns...Cape Ortegal (Galicia, Spain), Pennsylvania, Heazlewood, nickel hydroxycarbonate hydrate, Raman, FTIR...the 50s, additional zaratite samples from Heazlewood (Tasmania), and Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) showed...60s, zaratite specimens from Pennsylvania and Heazlewood provided similar fuzzy XRD patterns with no possible
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Nullagine, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia [Nickel & Graham 1987, Nickel et al. 1977, Peterson...primary nickel sulphides found at Otway include millerite and polydymite and in some cases they have undergone...whitish streak. In other occurrences, such as the Lord 0077-7757/06/0062 $ 2.50  2006 E. Schweizerbart’sche...Brassy mine (Andersen et al. 2002, Henry & Birch 1992) and Mt Grey mine, near Hazelwood, in Tasmania, otwayite...and paraotwayite. the Otway deposit, Western Australia (M37166). The phase composition of the minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mount Isa Mines Limited, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, 4825 SUMMARY.Analyses are presented for an iron-rich...Zealand and three cobalt-hearing pentlandites from Australia. Examination of I4I published analyses indicates...Wt% 43.8 18.7 5.0 31.8 atoms Lord Brassey Mine N.W. Tasmania t Total Fe:Ni 99.3 0.267 9.960 ...obtained from the Director, Mines Department, Tasmania. Chemical analysis also reported in Misra and...chalco = chalcopyrite. Po = pyrrhotine, Mill = millerite, Gdl = godlevskite, Hz = heazlewoodite, mE Cobaltrich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nickel-sulfur systems are heazlewoodite (Ni3S2), millerite ( N i ^ S ) , polydymite (Ni3S4), and vaesite...occurrence of the minerals heazlewoodite (Ni,S,), millerite (^3ls4i,_zS), polydymite (Ni3S4), and vaesite...form of N i ^ S , corresponding to the mineral millerite, is rhombohedral, and the high-temperature form...heazlewoodite from the original locality in northwest Tasmania was performed by I. H. Milne for Peacock (1947)...capillose. In 1845 Haidinger suggested the name millerite, which later became the commonly accepted name
Journal (issue)
F. L. Sutherland & G. Webb Minerals of western Tasmania ................................................the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ..............................University of Wollongong Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500 Australia Thomas G. Vallance Department of Geology University...University of Sydney Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...Nova Scotia, Canada; and Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (Barr, 1980). Combinations of the two depositional...British Columbia, Canada; and Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (Barr, 1980)). These deposits are primarily worked...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent...Junner (1921) made the same mines in Victoria, Australia, and Malcom (1912) in Nova Scotia. Arsenopyrite
Book (edition)
native Polarite yes Nickelskutterudite yes Millerite Arsenopalladinite Stibiopalladinite Reflection... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,... New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark; scratches) filling fine vein in jasper...jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample:
Catalog/List
masses in and on matrix (HelbaHine, N.E.Dundas,Tasmania) lxl fl.90 lx2 f4 064 ASTROPHYLLITE (KNa)(FeMnTi...bright orange red micro crystals in slag. (Cetine mine, Sienna Italy) 061 BRITHOLIT8 Ce. Ce ca Si0/4 P0/4...pure greenish Scorodite (Fe Arsenate) (Gold Hill Mine,TooeleCountyUtah) ½" size El.SO lxl f4 lx2 ED 231...S/5 grey rnetallic fibres on quartz. (Cariboo Gold Mine, Wells, British Columbia,Canada) ½ ins f2. 50 116...someyellowish. Good coverage of crystals. (Hilton Mine, Cumbria) lx2 fl. 50 243 FLUORITE greenish to purple
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica), then those of pegmatitic origin...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO...Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald
Book (edition)
Jan H. Bernard (Czcch Republic). W.D. Birch (Australia), Elena Bonaccorsi (Italy), Ernst A.J. Burke (Netherlands)...Merlino (ltaly), Yves Mo!:lo (France), E.11. ickcl (Australia), Milan Novåk (Czech Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden)...Cand CSPG Pennskiye gubemskiye wdomo.sti (Perm district ga=elle) Pl,ilosopl,ical Maga=ine Periodico de...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the...104(3). 326-328 □ Achavnlitc, FcSe, hex .. Cacheuta Mine. Ccrro de Cacheuta. Sierra de Cacheuta. Mcndoza
Book
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...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...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Book (edition)
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