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Sandstone from
Specimen Hill, Balfour, Balfour-Temma district, Circular Head municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Type:Sandstone
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sandstone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Specimen Hill, Balfour, Balfour-Temma district, Circular Head municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1016552
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1016552:8
GUID (UUID V4):ee31d6e3-505d-430b-8862-edaee136b323
Nearest other occurrences of Sandstone
56.3km (35.0 miles) Fook's lode, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
61.2km (38.0 miles) Granville mine (Granville East prospect), Mt Heemskirk mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
73.4km (45.6 miles) Kara No. 1 Pit, Kara Mines, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia
74.1km (46.1 miles) Renison Bell Mine (Renison Mine), North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
75.4km (46.8 miles) Kara Mines, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia
76.3km (47.4 miles) Sylvester skarn (Balstrup fault), Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
89.8km (55.8 miles) Grieves Siding prospect, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
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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
Report (issue)
Introduction, p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland...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...north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same district, but it is sometimes difficult or impossible to
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...1962 1967 A.E. Jenkins and G.M. Willis 3. Broken Hill Mines — 1968 1968 and Papua New Ed. C.L. Knight...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
Report (issue)
Taamanla Q;ns maniR:: Wholly le t UP and printed in Australia by WALTER E. SHIMMINS. GOVERNMENT PRINTER, HOBART...Windermere Reef . Rifleman Reef Leefl"'d Mine Specimen Hill Reefs Queens' Birthday Reef Land-o'-Cakes Line...Sketch-map of Lefroy District. lII.-Geological Sketch-Map of Back Creek District. IV.-Plan and Sections... ~' ~ ______ ~ PLATE I. ... ... '" I I TASMANIA ____-1_______________________________ acAUl '"...The survey was based on the mineral chart of the district, together with a recent survey made by Mr. J.
Journal (volume)
DECEMBER , great AUSTRALIA ; PUBLISHED EXCHANGE TO OF 1865, deal of CIRCULAR , OF OF MEL B...mines at Bendigo , or in any other quartz mining district, will never be heard to express themselves in...will be found under the chief head of " Mining Companies " and the sub-head of either “ Special Reports...Companies are to be found indexed only under the head of “ Managers' Reports." When Balance-sheets of...ascertained by referring to the index under the special head of “ Balance Sheets." Aberdeen Gold Mining Company
Report (issue)
Clarence–Moreton Basin from the coast south of Evans Head (see Photograph 12). Insets are: cut blue and gold...aggregate, dimension stone, fluorite, limestone, sandstone, shale, magnetite, peat, mineral pigments, heavy...(1207) 5. Dutchmans and Harts (1336) 6. Fielders Hill north (468) and south (467) 7. Carters cut (474)............................................ Evans Head and Broadwater area ..............................Carboniferous “Coffs Harbour Association”, Browns Head ............... Demon Fault 20 km east of Tenterfield
Journal (issue)
....................... by W. E. W ilson 2 Australia G old in A u s tr a lia ........................................ 92 FRONT & BACK COVER: GOLD specimen known as the "Fricot Nugget," collected in 1865...bullion value (by weight, if melted down) and specimen value is The very thought of collecting gold makes...bullion value may be a negligible fraction of the specimen value. out as a specialty on the assumption that...must be appropriately cautious.) Getting to know specimen also be willing to make some con­ values for gold
Book
published 1968 Second edition 1973 Wholly set up in Australia by the editors. Cover design by Stuart Crluth...Melbourne. Printed, collated and bound in Australia by Hollyoak Manufacturing Company, Melbourne...Melbourne, Publication No. I. Registered in Australia for transrnission by post as a book. ISBN 0 9599061...University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. ii PREFACE This volume was originally prepared...a new chapter on the geology of the Melbourne district. In addition to the acknowledgements recorded
Report (issue)
[Marine sandstone {Uawheranu/ and claystone, often coicareoui Series, Conglomerate, gnt, sandstone, and...glacial v~^-. gravels Dellelo conglomerate, sandstone, MIOCENE \ at J> \ /' UPPER i,. XamT ...and lifinillc s,..i. X.-%v^ banda. Marine sandstone and claystone, often calcareous... /An v/ l/~\%...and llgnltio bands. Dellalc MIOCENE [ Marine sandstone and olajstone, often calcareous.. f Mawheranai...Mawheranai Series. J Conglomerate, grit, sandstone, and shale with EOCENE Breccia and breccia-conglomerate
Book
of The MineralFrank L. Fleener is ogist magazine. Head of the Geology Department in the Joliet Township...COMPANY, INC. Kew Copynght, 1938, hy the McGraw-Hill Book. All rights reserved. This book, or parts...PUBLISHED BY WHITTLESEY HOUSE A division of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Printed in thd L^nited States...88 Sagenitic Quartz 98 Cr>'stals Flexible Sandstone Siliceous 118 Sand Crystals Arrowheads of ...Old Dexter stamp first of its kind in the Butte district. From then on, his mining properties expanded
Book (edition)
Territory THE DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND ENERGY I Head Office: Minerals House Esplanade, Darwin, NT GPO............................... • Kalkaringi (Wave Hill) Locality • Glenarro Bore Zebrastone Localities...River Downs including inset on Kalkaringi (Wave Hill) Locality................................ B. Glenarro...grains and fragments of an original rock, such as sandstone, diffuse to form different minerals controlled...of seas before they hardened. The rock names 'sandstone' and 'mudstone' are derived from the nature of
Book (edition)
DISCOVERY AND GEOGNOSY or GOLD DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA. Jtryorcfaamed ffdJ. firm 2tf/V T*hvjay2S8...T*hvjay2S8. Jtaeras \ Tin: GOLD DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA; TIIE1R DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND GEOGNOSY, WITH...Gold-fields of India" 5. Gold in Iron Ore in Australia, with a Report from the Rev. Mr Clarke and Official...newspaper), on Mr Hargraves's book, entitled "Australia and its Goldfields" 3. Mr Hargraves at Nottingham...relative to the Discovery of Alluvial Gold in Australia - 255 257 PAST NINTH. SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON
Journal (volume)
J. Beringer Associated Gold Mines of Western Australia ....Keport... Associated Gold Mines G. M. Roberts... Block 10 Hill Block 14 Hill Geology Report Report Report Hill Proprietary Report Hill Proprietary...Desilverizing Practice at (p.t.)... Hill Houth Blocks Keport Hill South Silver Report Hill, Zinc at Brunton's Furnace...Finance Bullfinch Promotions Bunker Hill ami Sullivan Bunker Hill, Ore-dressing at of Capitalizing 220...Report Boswln Mines Botallack Mines Brakpan Mines Hill Camborne Letter 340 Bore-holes, Deflection of
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Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...in the nepheline syenite of Saint-Hilaire, but specimen-grade crystals are seldom larger than micromount-size...cm (Horvath and Gault, 1990), and a beautiful specimen, showing a flattened, highly lustrous ilmenite...some of these intergrown in clusters. The finest specimen, measuring 3.6 cm, is illustrated in lsseponi...of rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning
Book (edition)
which is one of the almost judge a puzzling specimen. Obviously malachite, an ore of the heavy metal...into horizontal beds of shale, limestone, and sandstone. They are rich in fossils but comparatively barren...to slate or to schist, which contains mica; sandstone alters to quartzite or gneiss, limestone to mar-...operator, a druggist, the postmaster — Showing a specimen more information than Landmarks have a way of...have given everyone else a bad name. Grade your specimen on the spot by chipping away a small corner of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Castlemaine goldfields, Central Victoria, Australia Received: 8 November 2005 / Accepted: 18 May...deposits in the Bendigo Zone of central Victoria, SE Australia. Detailed mapping and biostratigraphic interpretation...Industries, P.O. Box 4440, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia e-mail: Clive.Willman@dpi.vic.gov.au variations...foldbelt . Bendigo . Castlemaine . Victoria . Australia Introduction Bendigo is the major goldfield within...province in the Bendigo Zone of central Victoria, SE Australia (Fig. 1). The province includes several smaller
Book (edition)
a little experience, the gem "heft" of a specimen to his rough field for instance, that massive...and profitable 7 he judges a puzzling mineral specimen In the laboratory, use is made of in the field...it of star sapphire. A crystal and a cut specimen of kunzite. Found in California, kunzite lilac...is free of imperfections. covered with tiny circular marks, believed to have been caused by blows...green material including fragments of shale, sandstone and clay. Weathering softens the tough peridotite
Journal (issue)
THE EMPIRE 265 THE COOLIBAH TIMBER OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 280 BAKING QUALITIES OF MESOPOTAMIAN WHEAT...Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, Papua, Northern Territory;...LARKIN). of Canada. The High Commissioner for Australia (The Right Hon. Sir JOSEPH The Government o~ the...the CommonCooK, G.C.M.G.). wealth of Australia. . The High Commissioner for New Zealand (Col. the Hon...& Pierce, Co1n11zittee for Australia The High Commissioner for Australia ( Chairman). Sir GORDON CAMPBELL
Book
LOCATIONS: UIS 1.A.. NEW' JERSEY Bergen Hill, Snake Hill, Paterson, New Street Quarries, Upper Montclair...Island Naze PACIFIC AUSTRALIA Victoria, Flinders, N"£W ZEALAND Tasmania Sydney, New South Wales... Providera ;:: USSR Khibin Mts. PACIFIC AUSTRALIA Collingwood, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria...Sul, Veronopolis U .S.A. NEW JERSEY Bergen Hill, Snake Hill, Great Notch, Montclair, West Paterson, (Paterson:...shale beds made up of volcanic tuff beds and sandstone composed with volcanic sediments. LOCATIONS:
Journal (issue)
Elmer N . Anderson ..........22 Minerals of t he District of Columbia and Vicinity, with Pertinent Bibliography...The idea of ha\'iug a piece of it for a locality specimen ,yas all right, but to go there and get it was...of a cruise sailing to this remote coal mining district, the idea came to me that if coal was there, why...mining of coal brought the matter of ownership to a head once more and finally in 1920 a conferenc·e settled...Spbalerite ,vas found in some quantity in the Bellsund district, bnt the mining neYer paid. However, good specimens
Report (volume)
Sections round Hureepoor general remarks Sirban hill sections : : : : : slate zone N.W. of Abbottabad...: : Nuwanshuhr, north of Dore R. across Bunyan hill, and Gulee, up the Hertoh R. and in the neighbourhood...Huveliyan and Rujoeeuh Sections near Juswal, Tope hill, Bagh and Juggiyan Sections near Sirbunnuh, Uzeezmung...Dore R. looking down stream from near S. Sirban hill — Juswal. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the it. detailed geological surveying of the district of Hazara begun by me, was after a lapse of
Journal (issue)
Pty Ltd PO Box 537, Torrensville Plaza, South Australia 5031 i\\l MINELAB Visit our website www.mlnelab...45unda'f, Ma'( t'fth 1-001- at 'Pa\mer, 45outh Australia. 6.arrett Meta\ Detet.tors and Other 'Priz.es...MINING CENTRE Shop2, 1048 Grand Junction Road, Holden Hill, S.A. 6088 Ph:- (08) 8396 7466 Fax:- (08) 8396... The headphones will be good when they fit your head comfortably, are light in weight and you can actually...man named H. Levens, a wellknown packer in the district, were stolen, slaughtered and eaten b) the Aborigines
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 68 June 1950 DETAILED SECTIONS OF PRE-PENNSYLVANIAN ROCKS ALONG THE .FRONT...Fremont limestone........................ Harding sandstone. . . . . . . . • . . . . . . • . . .. • . • •...•.•.. :...... Harding sandstone........................ Section C. Specimen Hill, Fremont County, Colorado...Fremont limestone........................ Harding sandstone. • . • . • . . • • . . • • . . . • . • • . . •...Fremont limestone........................ Harding sandstone........................ Manitou limestone....
Book (edition)
the test piece. This can be done by wetting the specimen, rubbing the area, and examining it after the...instinctive tests which he will apply to a puzzling specimen. Obviously malachite, an ore of the heavy metal...consolidated into horizontal beds of shale and sandstone, while precipitation from seawater lays down beds...natural sources of information and guidance. A specimen of what you will be looking for will often elicit... HOW TO HUNT FOR GEMS A between a cliff and a hill and draining into a lake is drawing. Above it is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
From the Prospect Park quarry he had a large specimen of chalcopyrite, only slightly smaller than ordinary...comparison was enormous. Vitali also showed a prehnite specimen from Prospect Park, quite different from that...them was green prehnite, beautiful in itself. One specimen was completely covered with fine, hair-like byssolite;...hydrohetaerolite from Ogdensburg, N. J., and had received a specimen of pisanite, a copper sulphate, from Arizona....elements. Julius H. Preston, III 100 Strawberry Hill Stamford, Conn. Westchester Minaral & Gem Society
 
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