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Wavellite from
Variscite Mine, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Wavellite
Formula:Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3 · 5H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wavellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Variscite Mine, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:104063
Long-form Identifier:1:3:104063:0
GUID (UUID V4):2704c1fa-d430-4fa7-8481-83e6e7b277a3
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CONNOISSEUR'SCHOICE RoBeRT B. Cook Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama...[Universite Laval] at 07:22 29 December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas...are a traditional favorite of many mineral collectors. They are colorful and of widespread geologic and...pyromorphite, mimetite, other members of the apatite group, and a very long list of additional minerals, all characterized...phosphate radical, are some of the most attractive species and indeed represent some of our most valuable specimens
Report (issue)
PHOSPHATE MINERALS OF VICTORIA W. D. Birch and D. A. Henry Editors Special photography by Francesco...Francesco Coffa THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA INC. SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 3. 7 Printed by McPherson's...Society of Victoria Inc. P.O. Box 12162, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne. Victoria. 3000 Australia (Tel. (03)...(03) 669 9892). National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 9594573 2 1 In this series: Special...Minerals of the Maldon Goldfield, by J. C. Haupt. Special Publication No. 2: Zeolites of Victoria. W. D
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Red and PinkVariscite from the Wood Mine, Cocke County, Tennessee HENRY BARWOOD Indiana Geological Survey...2014 I n 1969 or 1970 a few specimens of snow-white wavellite on black manganese oxides were examined...author at rock swaps in western North Carolina. Some of these specimens contained small pink to distinct...source to be the Wood mine in Cocke County, Tennessee. Rather cursory examination of the specimens by the...comparison of X-ray films of known strengite specimens and the rather typical “strengite” color of the specimens
Journal (issue)
Julie Newnham 10 Heyington Close, Croydon Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile (03)...9723 5041 .9Lustrafian Jouma{ of Afirze,rafogy The Australian Journal of Mineralogy is published by the...Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 2, Number...Articles: Some mines of the Mt Isa District, Queensland Part 3 - The Mount Oxide mine ............ B. Day...England The Francis Collection A. Pring 21 Post mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit
Journal (issue)
(Hons). Ph.D. Cur•or of Min�rals. Rocks and M.teorites. N1111on11I Museum ol Victoria by E. R. Segnit CSIRO...Division of Mineral Chemistry, Port Melbourne, Australia and G . L. Francis lron Knob, South Australia •on... B. Sc., F. G. A.A. Lecturer •t Canberra College of Technical and FurtMr Educetion �alph Segnit M.Sc...M.M.. A.B.S M M� ol Council. National Museum of Victoria &editor & publisher , ii Kovac F.G.A.A. telephone...contribution of articles and news ilems ia welcomed. but all me1e,ial is 1uqect to lhfl app,oval of lhe ediloti•I
Journal (issue)
00 2008 Arkansas Aluminum Phosphates: Wavellite with Variscite and Planerite Arthur E. Smith artsmithite@msn...Introduction Wavellite has been collected in Arkansas since the middle of the 1800s. A drawing of a typical...typical wavellite specimen is included in Harvey ( 1886), Arkansas' first state mineralogy. Although way behind...quartz with only sporadic commercial production, wavellite is undoubtedly the second most commercially collectable...Hill in Garland County was the source of most early wavellite specimens despite often being labeled as
Journal (issue)
Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robin son Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario...University of So. Florida Tampa, FL Richard W. Thomssen Mineral Expl. Consultants Carson City, NV photography:...Graphics, Compton, CA Mineralogical Record Inc. Board of Directors Richard W. Thomsssn President Wendell E...Secretary-Treasw er Ronald Bentley Houston Museum of Natural History Patricia A. Carlon Illinois State...Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Cou nty George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur Roe Tucson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Toyoda, Kochi, City, Japan SATOSHI MATSUBARA, YASUJISAITOand AKIRAKATO Department of Geology, NationalScienceMuseum...NationalScienceMuseum, Tokyo 160,Japan Wavellite, variscite, planerite as the first occurrence were formed...on walls came from nearby and cacoxenite of aluminum of fractures fluorapatite were found phosphate...The chemical analyses of wavellite, variscite, planerite from Toyoda, Kochi City, in sedimentary rocks...generated indicate from wavellite to be a high fluorine material, variscite to be a nearly ideal one
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
February 1998, Vol. 62(1), pp. 93-111 A reexamination of the turquoise group: the mineral aheylite, planerite...Ao_IB6(PO4)4_x(PO3OH)x(OH)8"4H20, where x = 0 - 2 , and consists of six members: planerite, turquoise, faustite, aheylite...an unnamed F e > - F e 3+ analogue. The existence of 'coeruleolactite' is doubtful. Planerite is revalidated...vacancy. Aheylite is established as a new member of the group, and is characterized by having Fe 2+ dominant...dominant in the A-site. Chemical analyses of 15 pure samples of microcrystalline planerite, turquoise, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Downloaded by [University of Otago] at 01:45 31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle...Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William...miles, contains both sedimentary and igneous rocks of every geological age from Precambrian to Recent....represented by numerous geothermal areas. The range of minerals found in mines, quarries, and prospect pits...state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published state
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PHOSPHATE MINERALS of Arkansas A survey phates of mineral that occur resources in several reveals...the summer of 1948, when I was employed to assist in a sur­ vey of the mineral resources of Arkansas....the field. Some interesting things did turn up. One of these was a dark green, radiating mineral from a...in the field. I recognized it as an iron phosphate of no commercial value but considerable scien­ tific...mineral. Many years later this became the type specimen of the new mineral kidwellite (Moore, 1978). Another
Journal (issue)
Rhodochrosite: Red Treasure of the Rockies The Story of the Sweet Home Mine. Andrey Atuchin: An Interview...7PM Treats Provided by the Fossil Group MEMORIES OF ARKANSAS: COLLECTING PHOSPHATES AND BAUXITE Mike...Mike Nelson csrockguy@yahoo.com I have fond memories of Arkansas. Applied for a few jobs in universities...suspect many CSMS members have been to the State of Arkansas on a collecting trip, most likely to collect...collect quartz crystals and dabble in the diamond mine (see December Pick & Pack). I actually would be
Catalog/List
returned within ten mail on approval, 1A--------days-of receipt. Telephone reservations are recommended...Cornwall. A 100x90mm area, of thin kilias/slate matrix covered with hundreds of sharp creamy albite xls... 140x90x20mm. ÂŁ18. 3. ANTIMONITE. Xikuangshan Mine, Hunan, China. A single lead grey lustrous xl 110x9x7mn...4. APATITE AND SIDERITE ON QUARTZ. Panasqueria Mine, Beira-Beixa, Portugal, An impressive display specimen...Tecoma Hill Mine, Lucin District, Box Elder Co., Utah, USA. Beautiful pale blue tufts of aurichalcite
Journal (issue)
Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England...England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino Royal Ontario...R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George...for over a quarter of a century, I can testify that editors do need a great deal of help. I couldn’t begin...begin to count the number of times our associate editors have caught mistakes or provided keen insight
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Downloaded by [University of Alberta] at 19:05 05 October 2014 )\TPSVEXMSR )\TPSVEXMSR ERH1MRMRK...1, Garland County, Arkansas, in the early stages of exploration. Photo courtesy Stuart Schmitt. Figure...by William Besse. Figure 3 (below). A handful of wavellite breccia uncovered on the first day’s dig, 28...No. 1. Henry de Linde photo. W avellite and variscite were probably first collected at the Dug Hill...date is correct for the formation of Garland County, the townships of Buckville (including Avant), Cedar
Journal (issue)
Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England...England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino Royal Ontario...R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George...Richard W. Graeme and the Graeme Family collection of Bisbee minerals and ores . . . . . . . . . . . ....owner unknown, presumably still in the possession of the Bandy family. Photo by Wolfgang Mueller. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abundance and quality of Arkansas phosphate minerals—especially wavellite and variscite—have led collectors...least one specimen of green radiating wavel­ lite or emerald-green crusts of variscite crystals from Arkansas...Arkansas. The abundance and quality of these specimens have led collectors to seek them for over one hundred...years. Lesser known but equally beautiful specimens of laubmannite, kidwellite, and "eggonite"—now kolbeckite—also...collections. This article sum­ marizes known occurrences of phosphate minerals and reports on new identifications
Journal (issue)
hydrous aluminum phosphate minerals, including wavellite, variscite, metavariscite, Ouellite, planerite, vashegyite...and augelite. Numerous widespread localities, some of which have produced remarkably well-crystallized...twenty years. It is the object of this brief paper to deribe several of these deposits and the minerals...;_ '"'' ' Fig. 1 Partial panorama of the open-pit Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. from the...for this article. Type I is an acicular Jo Dandy Mine, Radersburg District, •? Continued on page 4
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS...our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between 1992...county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act of 1974 are adopted almost exclusively. Thus Wales is...exceptions to this rule, as with the confusing suite of counties surrounding Cardiff in Wales, which are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AssrR.{cr Lossenite of Milch (1894) from Laurium, Greece, is shown to be a mixture of scorodite and beudantite...beudantite. Louderbackite of Lausen (1928) from the fire zone of the United Verde mine at Jerome, Arizona,...Zepharovichite of Boiickf (1869) from Tfenice, Bohemia, is very probably identical with wavellite. Peganite...Peganite of Breithaupt (1830) from Langenstriegis, Saxony, is identical with variscite as earlier stated by...Sphaerite of Zepharovich (1867) from Zajedow, Bohemia, is probably identical with variscite. LossBltrru
Journal (issue)
David Green 7 The UK ]011mal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors...David I. Green ADVERTISING Peter J. Briscoe WAVELLITE David Green • Tom Cotterell • Ian Jones David...CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean C. Spence 36 MINERALS OF THE SWISS JURA Paul Andermatt NEWS and EVENTS Mick...DESIGN Julie Ballard 47 PETITJEANITE FROM CAR.ROCK MINE Mike Rumsey • Trevor Bridges • John Spratt The...Journal arc not necessarily those of the Editorial Board. Publication of information on a collecting site
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
H A R D S. M I T C H E L L Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Introduction...dumps of the abandoned Kelly Bank iron-manganese mine in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Because of its light...County, Pennsylvania (Montgomery, 1969). The purpose of this paper is to report the 214 ROCKS AND MINERALS...Deposit The Kelly Bank mine is near the village of Vesuvius on the western flank of the Blue Ridge, and...for man­ ganese. The mine received considerable distinction after the discovery of the rare mineral churchite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain, Alabama. Bar is 20 /im. Figure 2: Group of aluminan strengite crystals from Cedartown, Georgia...CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA HENRY L . BARWOOD Florida Institute of Phosphate Research Bartow, Florida 33830 L U C I...County, Alabama, has revealed a substantial number of unusual phosphate minerals not previously reported...Hajek, 1978). New occurrences of phosphosiderite, aluminian strengite, variscite, leucophosphite, gorciexite...Indian Mountain area, and gives data on an occurrence of alumi­ nian strengite at Cedartown, Georgia. Mineral
Book
No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means without permission of Mineral...Miller Mountain Quartz Mine............................. Ron Coleman Quartz Mine.........................Pulaski County..................... 5 Dug Hill wavellite, Garland County................... 6 County Pit...County Other Wavellite locations..................................... 7 Buckeye Mountain Mine...................... 8 Crater of Diamonds State Park, Pike County.... 9 Highland Gypsum Mine, Howard County....
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fluorwavellite, Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F⋅5H2O, the fluorine analog of wavellite Anthony R. Kampf1,*, Paul M. Adams2, Henry Barwood3...Mineral Sciences Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los...Redondo Beach, California 90277, U.S.A. 3 Department of Chemistry and Physics, Troy University, 501 University...U.S.A. 4 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, U.S.A....Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F·5H2O, the F analog of wavellite, is a new mineral from the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district
 
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