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Sphalerite from
Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1080814
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1080814:6
GUID (UUID V4):a113b6e4-781b-4d63-bd8f-291feece4238
Localities for Sphalerite in this Region
Baddera (Baddera North; South Baddera), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Kirtons group of mines (Kirtons; Kirtons South; Kirtons North; Kirtons North Extended; West Wheal Virgin), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Martins Spring Mine (Martin Springs), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
McGuires (Isseka), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Narra Tarra Mine, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nooka, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Old Cow Rock, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Rhyhope, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Victoria Mine, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Wheal Ellen (Wheal Ellen North), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Wheal Fortune Extended, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Wheal May, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
1.4km (0.9 miles) Victoria Mine, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
1.9km (1.2 miles) Nooka, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
1.9km (1.2 miles) Wheal Ellen (Wheal Ellen North), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.4km (1.5 miles) Rhyhope, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
4.1km (2.5 miles) Wheal Fortune Extended, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
5.1km (3.2 miles) Kirtons group of mines (Kirtons; Kirtons South; Kirtons North; Kirtons North Extended; West Wheal Virgin), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
6.5km (4.1 miles) Wheal May, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
6.8km (4.2 miles) Martins Spring Mine (Martin Springs), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
8.7km (5.4 miles) Baddera (Baddera North; South Baddera), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
11.9km (7.4 miles) McGuires (Isseka), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 9 LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUST by...available for this important work. Although Western Australia has never been a major producer of lead, zinc... . . . . Lead. zinc and silver mining in Western Australia .... History and production . . . . . . ....Origin of the lead ores . . . . . . . . .... Northampton District . . . . . . . . .... Baddera group ... .... Lady Florence mine .... .... .... Great Western mine .... .... .... .... .... Dingo mine . . .
Report (issue)
OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never...D DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces.................... 144 144 144 CHAPTER 17 NORTHAMPTON BLOCK Gibsons prospect .......... ...........151 151 CHAPTER 18 PROTEROZOIC COVER ROCKS: WESTERN A N D SOUTHERN MARGINS O F T H E YILGARN BLOCK
Report (issue)
SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by K. M. Ferguson < < EWG1CAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTWCA DEPARTMENT...ENERGY LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 . , .- FRONTISPIECE Sulfur and copper...deposit, Pilbara Craton GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 15 S by K. M... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA David Blight Copy editors: I. R. Nowak and...Lead, zinc and silver deposits of Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gypsum, libethenite, calcite, barite, chrysocolla, sphalerite, cerussite, pyrite, and even wood and bone. Azurite...Douglas, KirkcudbrightAlgol mine, Placer County; shire, Scotland. Fibrous, staprospects near Julian, San...Carulngine offbourh Australiun minerals: 1983. South Australia Department of Mines and Energy handbook 7. Northrop...minrral localitit's o f f h e w w l r l : Asia und Australia. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Simpson, E....Minerals o$Westerti Australiu. Vol. 3. Carlisle, Western Australia: Hesperian Press. Traill, R. J. 1983. Catalogue
Book (volume)
probably resulting from the dcsulphuration of the sphalerite. 4. GRAPHITE. (8) Graphite occurs, with gneiss...Fritz Island, Berks Co.. and associated with sphalerite, it occurs at Victor Hollow, Georges twp., Fayette...Columbia Co., small quantities of galeniteand sphalerite were formerly mined, and small quantities have...found near Frystown, York Co. land Co., it sphalerite. 6. BOHNITR. (12) Small quantities of bornite...Museum of Lafayette College there is a specimen of sphalerite with siderite, from Scranton. 8. Some years
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...p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...occurrences. A case in point may be cited from South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst
Journal (issue)
Serpierite, I\lative Copper, and nodular variety of Sphalerite consisting of hemispherical aggregates from 25...occurring as yellow globular crusts in cavities in Sphalerite and as fine yellow powdery coatings on Hemimorphite...occurring in "gulls" in the basal unit of the Northampton Sand Formation as pale orange-coloured nodules...Jurassic. For example, several divisions of the Northampton Sand Formation are rich in members of the kaolinite...example, in a pit opened in the grounds of the Northampton Mental Hospital (Natn. Grid. Ref. SP770600),
Report (issue)
RESOURCES BULLETIN 17 ARITE AND FLUORITE WESTE AUSTRALIA * by R 6. Abeysinghe and J. M. Fetherston DVERNMENT...SURVEY OF WESTERN DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OFWESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Pietro Guj Copy editor: A. S. George The...M., 1997, Barite and fluorite in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7309 6539 2 Abeysinghe, P. B. Barite and fluorite in Western Australia
Report (issue)
pyromorphite; Zinc Minerals PRIMARY: Sulfides: sphalerite. WEATHERING PRODUCTS: (in part Hydrometamorphs)...concentrations of barite, celestite, galena, and sphalerite occur in Pennsylvania at the following places:...County (celestite), Friedensville, Lehigh County (sphalerite), Lancaster County (galena). PRIMARY: Carbonates:...HYDROMETAMORPHS Sulfides: : pyrite, marcasite, galena, sphalerite; Sulfates: WEATHERING PRODUCTS: (in barite...diabase are the hydrothermal veins of galena and sphalerite of Montgomery and Chester County, and the contact
Book (volume)
Weber farm allanite locality, Lower Saucon tsp. Northampton county dark brown. , ; c THE MINERALOGY...lepidomelane. The locality at Weber's, Lower Saucon, Northampton, has long been exhausted (v. lanthanite). CHONDRODITE...phosphate at the limonite mines near Hellertown, Northampton county; also atOrbisonia, Huntington, I and...the allanite loI I Weber's, Lower Saucon, Northampton county, six miles from Easton, and notwithstanding...Cedarville, Easton Ironton Wharton mine Hellertown, Northampton, (asbolite}. URANINITE: Crum creek, Avondale
Report (edition)
County Lebanon County Lehigh County Monroe County Northampton County Sullivan County York County 18 20 21...locality, he also will expect to find the mineral sphalerite as well as carbonates and sulfates of both lead...Magnetite Galena Magnetite Enstatite Silver Sphalerite Pyrite Barite Anglesite Cerussite Pyrite Chalcopyrite...and massive); cerussite (crystals and massive); sphalerite (massive and cleavages); smithsonite (massive...hemimorphite all formed byweathering of the galena, sphalerite, and dolomite. These minerals, formedby weathering
Journal (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA'S ZINC-LEAD OCCURRENCES While examining sphalerite and galena occurrences in Pennsylvania, an attempt...specimen) could be detected by X-ray diffraction of sphalerite from the Bamford mine, also in Lancaster County...striated, prismatic crystal habit, occurs w ith sphalerite and galena in calcite 8 at Lime Bluff, Lycoming...metallic, gray rims on galena associated with sphalerite in limestone breccia. It was collected underground...S, is common as thin, pale yellow coatings on sphalerite associated with galena and barite on the dumps
Book
zones in the Carboniferous Limestone of Derby¬ shire ........... 121 Mineral localities in the Trias...Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Warwick¬ shire coalfields present the usual problems of correlation...exploited in huge excavations that run from Northampton to Lincoln. Not far above the ironstone follows...clay plains and rolling hills of East Leicester¬ shire, beloved of huntsman and hounds. We have the grey...grained in the northwestern region {i.e., the north¬ western end of the southwestern limb of the fold) where
Report (Issue volume)
Montour 106 Northampton 107 Northampton 108 109 110 Northampton Northampton Northampton Ill**'* Northampton...Northampton 112 113 Northampton Northampton 114 Northampton 115 Northampton 116 120 Northampton...Co. Northampton Cement Rock Quarry No. 1, Universal Atlas Cement Co. U. S. Steel Corp. Northampton Dragon...Montgomery Co. Rose's quarry, L. Merion Twp. Northampton Co. Flint Hill near Bingen Philadelphia Co. Princes...Buffalo Valley Winfield Opposite Northumberland NORTHAMPTON CO. Easton References WESTMORELAND CO. 11
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601 (Australia) Geological Survey of Greenland, Copenhagen DK-1350...samplesfrom eachof two neighbouring localities in the western arm of the Isua supracrustal belt, west Greenland...the east Transvaal and in the northwest of Western Australia (Ulrych et al., 1967;Saagerand Kijppel, 1976;Richards...assemblagewith dominantly pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galenaand linnaeite in a banded amphibolite...occur small amounts of rather coarse pyrrhotite, sphalerite and galena. The galenasanalysedin this study
Report (issue)
Geologic Map of the Catasauqua Quadrangle, Northampton and Lehigh Counties, Pennsylvania By Avery Ala... GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE CATASAUQUA QUADRANGLE, NORTHAMPTON AND LEHIGH COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA By Avery Ala...Intrusive Suite crops out in Westover Hills near the western end of Pine Top. Modes and chemical analyses of...relation to prospect for zinc deposits because sphalerite is stratabound in the lower Beekmantown section...(Ojl) can be seen in natural outcrop in the Northampton area and in quarries of the Lehigh and Keystone
Report (issue)
THORIUM IN THE READING PRONG OF BERKS, LEHIGH, AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II John...THORIUM IN THE READING PRONG OF BERKS, LEHIGH, AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA by Robert C. Smith, II...thorium in the Reading Prong of Berks, Lehigh, and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quarry L, Northampton County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . C. K. Williams quarry, north part, Northampton County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
pyroxene crystals and clusters from the soil on the western bank of the pit. Dug 580 ROCKS AND MINERALs... but which cannot be seen from this road. The western end of this quarry is a series of pockets or caves...are easily reached by car from Northampton, Massachusetts. Northampton, county seat of Hampshire County...mines are more than ten miles from the center of Northampton, although a few localities producing galena,...about two and a half miles from the center of Northampton. In the Loudville region more than fifty shafts
Report (Issue volume)
Montgomery Co. Rose's quarry, L. Merion Twp. Northampton Co. Flint Hill near Bingen Philadelphia Co. Princes...Buffalo Valley Winfield Opposite Northumberland NORTHAMPTON CO. Easton References WESTMORELAND CO. 11...class are known in Bucks, Chester, Montgomery, Northampton and Philadelphia Counties. Molybdenum is associated...number of metals occur in the Easton locality, Northampton Co., where the host is serpentinized marble....well-defined group of deposits is located mainly in western Adams County in late Precambrian metabasalt and
Report (issue)
Company, through Jerry N. Biery, released two trace sphalerite occur rences near New Enterprise and furnished...gave the author a guided tour through the trace-sphalerite occurrences in the York area. IV Drs. Jacob...project; Viktoras Skema found the Sugar Hill sphalerite occurrence; and finally. Dr. John H. Way found...Mine area 62 82 102 108 140 142 177 180 247 Northampton County Bushkill Drive outcrops Chestnut Hill...occurrences 11 1. Chestnut Hill quarries, Northampton County 2. Coatesville prospect, Chester County
Report (issue)
SURVEY Geologic Map of the Nazareth Quadrangle, Northampton County, Pennsylvania By John M. Aaron and Avery...1997 GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE NAZARETH QUADRANGLE, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By John M. Aaron and Avery...relation to prospect for zinc deposits because sphalerite is stratabound in the underlying Beekmantown...of cover rocks in the Whitehall window and the western part of what is now called the Schoenersville window...sheared rocks. Hellertown Thrust Fault In the western part of the Nazareth quadrangle, the Hellertown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
free-milling gold, but also occurs in galena, sphalerite, and various sulfosalts found in the veins and...bornite, and chalcocite; molybdenite, galena, and sphalerite are also found. Precious metals are found in...LEVINE AND H. G. VAN OSS main ore mineral, but sphalerite, pyrite, galena, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite,...lead and zinc are found mainly in galena and sphalerite, respectively. Silver is found in the native...in total output. Major exporters are Canada, Australia, Mexico, and Peru. When estimated geologic reserves
Journal (issue)
Newfoundland, Canada, and in the Ediacara Hills of Australia, as well as in Russia, Eastern Europe and Africa...confirmed. A second locality occurs on the south-western limb of the Charnwood anticline, within an area...(Brossler, 1998). Ore minerals include galena and sphalerite, with gangue largely of calcite, barite and...associated with sand descending steeply on the western flank. This high-angle slipface bedding is interpreted...backwards across the mound to then avalanche down the western (lee) side. A slipface sequence within Section
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Roxbury Falls, in Southern Litchfield County of western Connecticut. Mrs. Scheffer's crystal is one of...the 'Loudville Mine' but that locality is in Northampton and a half mile north and located in a hillside..."Prehnite, apophyllite, datolite, gmelinite, sphalerite, galena, magnetite, sphene, chalcopyrite, hornblende...Morton Salt Company Mine near Mentor which is in western Lake County in N / E Ohio. A recent letter from...Elkins, W. Va., on W. Va. US Route 33. Mr. Fred Western is the company geologist and a very nice person
Journal (issue)
quality, have been found in northern and north-western Pakistan. These include emerald, ruby, red spinel... 1984. ] 416 J.Gemm., 1985, XIX, 5 GREEN SPHALERITE FROM ZAIRE By U. HENN, Dip.Min., and C. HOFMANN...ABSTRACT The cause of colour from dark-green sphalerite from Kipushi, Zaire, investigated by chemical...absorption-maximum at 670 nm in the spectrum of sphalerite. This absorption-maximum is based on a 4A2-*4T...transition of Co2+ in the tetrahedral crystal field of sphalerite. INTRODUCTION Several faceted sphalerites from
 
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