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Sphalerite from
Beams Quarry, Flowery Gully, Beaconsfield district, West Tamar municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beams Quarry, Flowery Gully, Beaconsfield district, West Tamar municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1030849
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1030849:7
GUID (UUID V4):5929227a-dd0e-46c3-9ee3-9314ea18fe90
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
7.9km (4.9 miles) Beaconsfield Mine (Tasmania mine), Beaconsfield, Beaconsfield district, West Tamar municipality, Tasmania, Australia
7.9km (4.9 miles) Tasmania Reef, Beaconsfield Mine (Tasmania mine), Beaconsfield, Beaconsfield district, West Tamar municipality, Tasmania, Australia
17.2km (10.7 miles) Rudges Mine (Baryta Reward), Harford, Latrobe municipality, Tasmania, Australia
23.4km (14.6 miles) Lefroy goldfield, Lefroy, George Town municipality, Tasmania, Australia
51.7km (32.1 miles) Whiting prospect, The Sidling, Launceston City municipality, Tasmania, Australia
66.2km (41.1 miles) Shepherd and Murphy Mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
70.6km (43.8 miles) Stormont mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
70.8km (44.0 miles) Devon Mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
85.6km (53.2 miles) Rex Hill Mine (Mt Rex Mine), Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania, Australia
86.0km (53.4 miles) Storeys Creek Mine, Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania, Australia
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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
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# ' 'M & va ;>1 MINERALS All GEMSTONES OF TASMANIA v. AND THEIR LOCATIONS By KEITH E. LANCASTER...LANCASTER Si "s MINERALS All :' GEMSTONES OF TASMANIA AND THEIR LOCATIONS By KEITH E. LANCASTER The author...Lancaster — panning for osmiridium at the “Clay Bank”, west of Adamsfield. Published by GEMCRAFT PUBLICATIONS...National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0909223 04 1 Printed in Australia by Quadricolor Industries...coastal areas; Northern inland areas; North West; Southern; West Coast; Lace agate; Rhodonite and serpentine;
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+ 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
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MountWindsorSubprovince, Australia MARK G. DOYLE L•* Centre for OreDeposit Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart,Tasmania...Tasmania 7001,Australia AND DAVID L. HUSTON Australian Geological SurveyOrganization, P.O.Box378,Canberra...Canberra,ACT 2601,Australia Abstract The Highway-Reward massive sulfidedeposit is hostedby a submarine...Thepyrite-chalcopyrite pipesareenveloped bya haloofpyrite-sphalerite 2:chalcopyrite _ galena _ bariteore,whichincludes...fromdiscordant pyritepipesinto a strata-bound sphalerite-rich lens;and(6)zones ofstrong hydrothermal alteration
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Research , University of Tasmania , GPO Box 252C, Hobart, Tas., 7001, Australia b Geological Survey of...Shamrock Parade, Killarney Heights, NSW, 2087, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007. To cite this article:...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 42:2, 203-221, DOI: 10.1080/08120099508728192...Research, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252C, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia. 2 MPIPty Ltd, 24 Shamrock
Report (issue)
Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 iii © The Australasian Institute of Mining...knowledge and understanding of the mineral wealth of Australia and Papua New Guinea. v vi Committees MONOGRAPH...Department of Minerals and Energy Mineral Resources Tasmania Tenement Administration Services Mines and Energy...Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley Iron Pty Limited Hancock Prospecting...597 and 598 609, 610 and 611 Battle Mountain (Australia) Inc 686 and 687 MIM Holdings Limited 702 and
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Characteristics of orogenic-gold deposits in the Northcote district, Hodgkinson Province, north Queensland: implications...3800, Australia b School of Earth and Geographical Sciences , University of Western Australia , 35 Stirling...Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia Published online: 19 Feb 2007. To cite this article:...Characteristics of orogenic-gold deposits in the Northcote district, Hodgkinson Province, north Queensland: implications
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Optimisation of processing at the Beaconsfield gold mine R. Holder*1,2 The Beaconsfield gold mine processing plant...discovered in mid 1877, the Beaconsfield gold mine in northern Tasmania started its life as an open pit...underground development saw mining activities follow the Tasmania reef down to 454 m at which point it was closed...between Allstate Explorations NL as manager, and Beaconsfield Gold NL. A late start-up and deficient engineering...NL on 8 June 2001, and a receiver/manager for Beaconsfield Gold NL in late June 2001. Geology The ore
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Studies (CODES),University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract The Camhro-Ordovician...volcanic-hosted massive sulfide(VHMS)deposits in Australia,resultingin about19•millionmetrictonsof containedmetal...and zinc),concentrated in the MountReadVolcanics(Tasmania)andthe MountWindsorVolcanics(Queensland). The...prospects (Table1). The sulfide(VHMS)deposits in Australia,rangingin age nineremainasundeveloped combined...stylesofVHMS deposits in Australia. Distributionand Age The majorityof VHMS depositsin Australia(24 of the 30) occurwithin
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Resources, P.O. Box 173, East Melbourne Vic. 3002 (Australia) (Accepted for publication January 13, 1986) ...Metal]ogeny and Tectonic Development of Eastern Australia. Ore Geol. Rev., 1: 213--257. Current evidence...e K a n m a n t o o F o l d Belt in S o u t h Australia is c h a r a c t e r i z e d by the very thick...Province. He worked for a period as mine geologist in Tasmania and in 1974 c o m m e n c e d Ph.D studies on...number of base metal and tin projects in Eastern Australia. In 1981 he joined the Victorian Geological Survey
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Geology Vol. 96, 2001, pp. 1227–1237 Discovery of the West 45 Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit Using...O. Box 873, Charters Towers, Queensland 4820, Australia SCOTT HALLEY, Goldfields Exploration, P.O. Box...Victoria Park, Western Australia 6979, Australia GEOFF GREEN, Mineral Resources Tasmania, P.O. Box 56, Rosny...Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018, Australia AND MEL JONES De Re Metallica Pty. Ltd., 25 Kedumba Crescent, North...North Turramurra, New South Wales 2074, Australia Abstract A number of innovative geochemical techniques
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Springer-Verlag 1988 Major's Creek, N.S.W., Australia- A Devonian epitherlnal gold deposit B.A. Wake...of New South Wales, Kensington, N.S.W. 2033, Australia Abstract. Mineralized veins at Major's Creek...quartz, sericite and, in some instances (Scotmans Gully south), kaolinite. The early pyrite is cataelastically...cataelastically deformed and later chalcopyrite, sphalerite and tetrahedrite form fracture fillings in the pyrite...mineragraphy) sphalerite, tetrahedrite and Samples of mineralization from the Major's Creek district were collected
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Studies, University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia RALPHS. BOTYRILL, Tasmanian...Department of Mines,P.O.Box56, RosnyPark,Tasmania 7018,Australia ROBERTA. CB•,V.I,MAN, R. A. CreelmanandAssociates...NewSouthWales2121,Australia KHIN ZAW, Centrefor Ore DepositandExploration Studies,University of Tasmania, G.P.O...O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania7001,Australia TONY R. RAMSDEN, CSIRODivisionof ExplorationGeoscience, P.O.Box136...Box136, NorthRyde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia SVENW. RAND, Aberfoyle Resources, Exploration Division
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collecting fraternity, which was very strong in the West Country. My first contact was Steven Treseder who...of Chipping Sadbury, calcite from Hampstead Farm Quarry and celestine from Yate Rocks. I also collected...north Devon, including several visits to High Down Quarry for wavellite and variscite, also into East Cornwall...Cornwall and several visits to Merehead Quarry, Somerset. Unfortunately, I did not keep a diary of all...autunite from Merrivale Quarry, Dartmoor and variscite from High Down Quarry, all localities in Devon
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Elliott,Tasmania7325,Australia ANDR. J. G. LEwis Geology Department, University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C...Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract Geophysical surveyshavebeenusedfor mineralexploration in Australiasince1928...se- THEfirstpublished geophysical surveys in Australia quenceof conductiveand chargeableblack shales...Skeyconcluded that the economically imVolcanics of western Tasmania. It consistsof a num- portantlead-zincmineralization...._.• THALANGA I '......... BENAMBR• Western Tasmania FIG. 1. The locationof VHMS depositsdiscussed
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Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...highlights include: • Possibly the best matrix Sphalerite ever mined from Balmat, New York. • A world-class...FLUORITE Dal’negorsk Tetyuche, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia It...12:00 PM CT   9 52004 MANGANOCALCITE Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru It
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ProtonMicroprobe Analyses of Pyrite,Chalcopyrite, and Sphalerite, andPartII. Selenium Levels in Pyrite: Comparison...Studies, University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia SOEY H. SIE, GARY F. SUTER...Geoscience, P.O.Box136,NorthRyde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia DAVID R. COOKE, Centre for OreDeposit andExploration...Studies, University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia AND ROSS A. BOTH Department...SouthAustralia 5005,Australia Abstract Part I. Pyrite,chalcopyrite, and sphalerite from sixvolcanic-hosted
Report (issue)
p/roto B�:CerroC� Cuevas, SantaCruz, BoUvia Dai,kl Beams photo Bo ivia The Height of Mineral Collecting...Staebler Illustrations by Michael Bainbridge, Daniel Beams, Dan Behnke, Joe Budd, Michael Canoy Rock Currier...BY JAROSLAV HYRSL AND ALFREDO PETROV The Poopo District ........................................................ 70 BY ALFREDO PETROV The Viloco Tin District: World-Class Cassiterite .......................seen on the road from La Paz to Copacabana; Daniel Beams photo Are there any mineral collectors who have
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from five Proterozoic sulfide deposits, Skellefte district, Sweden M. Vaasjoki 1 and W. Vivallo 1 1 2 Geological...sulfosalts) from five different mines of the Skellefte district, northern Sweden, demonstrate that the Ph-isotopic...varies between individual deposits within the district. This contrasts with many other base-metal districts...exhalative origin of the ores of the Skellefte district, they also demonstrate that older crustal lead...from being a noteable base-metal producer, the district is also a source of precious metals (Rickard 1986)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Queensland,Australia IAN R. MULHOLLAND 3 Whitney Crescent,Mr. Claremont,WesternAustralia 6010, Australia Abstract...Creek Formation showsa marked thinningfromeastto west,is assigned a Lancefieldianage (Henderson,1983)...Queensland(Fig. 1), the Magpie prospectoccurs within the east-west-trendingSeventy Mile Range Group, the dismemberedremnantsof...CROSS SECTION 1389 DRILL - 12300E (looking west) • ACID DYKES x;[•']APLITE/ACID PORPHYRY -50...phosphate phasewasalsoqualitatively identifiedby sphalerite,galenaandchalcopyrite), andmagnetite. electronmicroprobe
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the Mount WindsorSubprovince,North Queensland,Australia R. F. BERRY,D. L. HUSTON,A. J. STOLZ,A. P. HILL...Studies,University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania7001,Australia S. D. BEAMS, Terra SearchPry...Ltd., P.O. Box981, Hermit Park,Queensland 4812, Australia U. KURONEN, Outokumpu, Suite2, Level6, 77 PacificHighway...SouthWales2060, Australia AND A. TAUBE 256 AgnesStreet,Rockhampton, Queensland 4700,Australia Abstract The...distributionof alterationin thisbelt provides east-west-striking belt 160 km longandextendsdis- supportfor
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Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit, North Queensland, Australia WALTER HERRMANN† AND ANTHEA P. HILL Centre for...Research, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 Abstract The Thalanga...to upper greenschist facies. Associated with the West Thalanga orebody are strata-bound lenses composed...of these exhalites with massive sulfides in the West Thalanga lens has been uncritically extended to...HILL volcanic rocks that extends 165 km in an east-west direction. These rocks form a grossly conformable
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Lower Ordovician Waterloo Massive Sufide Deposit, Australia THOMAS MONECKE,†,* Institut für Mineralogie, TU...Deposits, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 AND PETER M. HERZIG**...Seventy Mile Range Group in the Charters Towers district in northern Queensland, one of the principal submarine...submarine successions in eastern Australia that contains abundant volcanic-hosted base metal deposits...stratiform, blanketlike, pyrite-chalcopyrite-sphalerite-galena massive sulfide lenses hosted by intensely
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[1], Cosmo Howley in Australia [2], and Syama, Obuashi, and Inata deposits in west Africa [3]. Previous...conjunction part among the Pacific, Eurasian, and Indo-Australia plates (Figure 1A) [15,16]. The tectonic movements...The Shilu Group, distributed and located in the west Hainan, consists of a set of shallow sea-lagoon...The Shilu Group, distributed and located in the west Hainan, consists of a set of shallow sea-lagoon...minerals (Figure 3A), and there are also some sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and galena (Figure 3B). The results
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that ferroan gahnite results from marmatitic sphalerite desulphurisation and reaction with aluminosilicates...metasediments and metavolcanics of the Broken Hill district are probably orig ina lly about 1 800 m .y. old...locally as 'lode horizon·. Small pods of marmatitic sphalerite and galena are present wit hin lode horizons...icates during prograde metamorph ism or from sphalerite desulphurisation and reaction with alumioo silicates...orebodies (e.g. pyrrhotite, loellingite. Fe-rich sphalerite, plumbian a l kali feldspar, gahn ite) suggest
 
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