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Sphalerite from
Alma Mine, Condobolin, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alma Mine, Condobolin, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1205505
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1205505:8
GUID (UUID V4):d47cf2d2-4654-44a3-bd86-21fbc24eab59
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
21.0km (13.1 miles) Potter's Mine (Potters Silver Lead Mine), Condobolin, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
22.7km (14.1 miles) Mount Nobby workings, Mount Nobby, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
26.9km (16.7 miles) Anaconda Mine (Boona West Mine), Mount Nobby, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
33.7km (20.9 miles) Durnings North Prospect (Dunnings Shaft), Fifield district, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
34.3km (21.3 miles) Kaolin Shaft, Fifield district, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
34.7km (21.5 miles) Lima Prospect, Fifield district, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
37.0km (23.0 miles) Mount Tinda South East, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
38.7km (24.0 miles) Dunbars Lode (Dunbars Shaft), Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
40.9km (25.4 miles) Red Terror Mine, Mineral Hill field, Condobolin district, Kennedy Co., New South Wales, Australia
40.9km (25.4 miles) Iodide Mine (Mount Iodide Mine), Mineral Hill field, Condobolin district, Kennedy Co., New South Wales, Australia
References
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Report (issue)
ILLINOIS LIBRARY i ^ 6^2.09 S ^^ 2 . ) I NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPARTMENT OF MINES. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject...Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia:...name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining field, and...from South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst,” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale Mine”; all
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BROKEN HILL ORE DEPOSIT, BROKEN HILL, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA BY J. K. GUSTAFSON, H. C. BTJSRELL, AND M. D....1397 Hanging Wall basin 1397 Footwall basin 1398 Alma anticline 1398 Western anticline, Eastern syncline...Post-ore faulting 1425 1393 Drag folds with flat south pitch 1425 1393 1369 Page 1371 1371 1371 1371 1372...GUSTAFSON ET AL— BROKEN HILL ORE DEPOSIT, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA Page Mechanical interpretation of faulting and...Page Figure Page Figure 1. Map of Australia 1373 24. Central Mine, section 5-6, showing second-order
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the current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices...Reports Section, Federal Center, Box 25425, Denver, CO 80225. Reports released through the NTIS may be obtained...Open-File Reports Federal Center, Box 25425 Denver, CO 80225 Subscriptions to periodicals (Earthquakes &...SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State St. SAN FRANCISCO, California-Customhouse...Map Distribution Federal Center, Box 25286 Denver, CO 80225 Residents of Alaska may order maps from Alaska
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mines of Huanzala, Peru; at Hotazel and N'Chwaning, South Africa; at Butte, Montana; at Mont St. Hilaire,...Miller 1976). Some of the more important Colorado loI New Mexico Oklahoma ’ calities for fine specimens of...Sweet Home mine, the 1 1. Urad mine, Clear Creek County 1. Sweet Home mine, Park County Climax mine, the Eagle...Eagle 12. Moose mine, Gilpin County 2. Sunnyside mine, San Juan County mine in Gilman, and var13. Julia...Julia Fiske mine, Leadville, Lake County 3. Mountain Monarch mine, Ouray County 14. John Reed mine, Lake County
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Colorado boasts numerous localities where fine sphalerite specimens have been found. 220 ROCKS & MINERALS...reported from numerous localities worldwide. Fine sphalerite specimens, for example, have been found at Elmwood...DaI’negorsk, Russia. We1I-crystaIIized examples of sphalerite also occur at many localities in Colorado, in...marmatite), pink, or dark red (Eckel et al. 1997). Sphalerite crystallizes in the hextetrahedrat class of the...illustrates no less than 184 different habits of sphalerite (Goldschmidt 1986). Figure I . Burros, carrying
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Leonard Beach, whose undying faith in the Sweet Home Mine made it all happen. M in e FRONTISPIECE: “The...24 cm, found in the Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home mine, in 1992. Sweet Home Rhodo, Inc. specimen; photo...17 cm, found in the Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home mine, in 1992. Sweet Home Rhode. Inc. specimen; photo...specimen collecting in our time: the Sweet Home mine operation. Many thousands of specimens have reached...rhodochrosite and other species from the Sweet Home mine. The experience of owning those specimens can now
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FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...to develop an interest in the idea of forming a new organization just for serious mineral collectors...booth, got to talking about the idea of forming a new organization; they then brought Jim Merrett and Ken...Jim Merrett, and was approved in March 1981. The new association was imrnediately successful, aided especially
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SUPERGROUP IN THE BROKEN HILL AND EURIOWlE BLOCKS, NEW SOUTH WALES B.P.J. S T E V E N S 1, R.G. B A R N E S 2...1Geological Survey of New South Wales, 32 Sulphide Street, Broken Hill, N.S. W. 2880 (Australia) 2Geological Survey...Survey of New South Wales, W.J. McCarthy House, Faulkner Street, Armidale, N.S. W. 2350 (Australia) (Received...Supergroup in the Broken Hill and Euriowie Blocks, New South Wales. Precambrian Res., 40/41: 297-327. The Willyama...interpreted for Proterozoic fold belts in northern Australia. 298 Introduction The purpose of this paper
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EXCHANGE V** I ^ is- CATALOGUE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MINERALS, WITH THE MINES AND OTHER LOCALITIES...PRINTER, NORTH-TERRACE. 1893. CATALOGUE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MINERALS, WITH THE MINES AND OTHER LOCALITIES..."Coronet Mine'" Coronet Hill. For ' ' " three miles " after " 33 Line t( " Alma." For "Gn...Remarks on the Geology and Mineralogy of : South Australia, by Thomas Burr, Esq., at one time Deputy SurveyorGeneral...the late Dr. Meng, a South Australian Almanack for a Catalogue of South Australian by Minerals, by
Catalog/List
markets and shows. Kevin attended the University of South Alabama where he studied art (including sculpture...scores of abandoned mining towns from California to New Mexico to Montana. He did extensive research on the...in Montana, calcite in Utah, silver, galena, sphalerite, and amethyst in Creede, Colorado, azurite and...Ward Minera! on QUARTZ RHODOCHROSITE District Mine. Climax Climax olTolg-Yole Lake. County. ncredibly...years to find a specimen rhombs rhombs Climax Mine, ot rhodochrosite $50 OOU 60.000 Ex The
Report (issue)
c = 11.743(1) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Boulder Co., Colorado, USA. 2.345 (100), 2.794 (90), 2.740 (80)...Association: Acanthite, mckinstryite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, stromeyerite, polybasite...silver. Distribution: In Mexico, at the La Leonora mine, Jalpa, Zacatecas [TL], and at La Mesa, Chihuahua...the Payrock mine, Silver Plume, Clear Creek Co.; the Bulldog Mountain mine, Creede, Mineral Co.; the Hock...Hocking mine, near Alma, Park Co.; also from Boulder Co., at the E.C. Hite mine, and the Caribou mine, near
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Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...discovered along the Fraser River in British Columbia, a new gold rush drew more than 30,000 prospectors, and...collecting more difficult than in areas to the south, but a collecting community and dealers to serve...Society. Broadsheet advertising passage from Australia to British Columbia in 1858, during the Fraser...number suggests he may have started as a boy in New Jersey. In any case, it is certain that he became
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE The Sweet Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine...containing quartz– sphalerite–tetrahedrite–rhodochrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado...For the last 13 years up until 2004, however, the mine has produced world-class rhodochrosite specimens...the nearby area; (4) a small pegmatite within the mine with an age (25.9±0.3 Ma) coincident with mineralization...Colorado School of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, USA e-mail: pbartos@mines.edu D. Misantoni
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE The Sweet Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine...containing quartz– sphalerite–tetrahedrite–rhodochrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado...For the last 13 years up until 2004, however, the mine has produced world-class rhodochrosite specimens...the nearby area; (4) a small pegmatite within the mine with an age (25.9±0.3 Ma) coincident with mineralization...Colorado School of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, USA e-mail: pbartos@mines.edu D. Misantoni
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with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...Jaworski Evan & Bob Jones . l l L ~ L Jason New Marcus Origlieri Ronald J. Peilar Tony Potucek Les...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...weren't good enough, just across the border to the south is Mexico, rieb in active mines where miners are...in Tucson, creating a unique opportunity to find new specimens for one's collection. In fact, Arizona
Report (volume)
_-__----__-_-__------____-_-____-___________ Deposits in the Alma district...-____________________________ Distribution...the ores at Alma to those at Leadville____________ Local centers of mineralization at Alma ______________________...______________________ Origin of ores at Alma._______---_-___---___-______________ The London vein system.___ ____... tunnel-_------_---__---_---_ -__--_-____-Ophir mine. _______________________ _,_ _ ___!_____ _______...Mountain...... Area between London Mountain and New York Mountain _.____Extent of prospecting___________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE A geochemical study of the Sweet Home Mine, Colorado Mineral Belt, USA: hydrothermal fluid...fluorite–rhodochrosite mineralization at the Sweet Home Mine occurred coeval with the final stage of magmatic...Colorado Calumet Company Inc., P.O. Box 1169, Golden, CO 80402, USA al assemblage was deposited from magmatic...quartz demonstrate that fluids from the Sweet Home Mine are enriched in incompatible elements but have considerably...differentiated magma possibly related to the deep-seated Alma Batholith or distal porphyry stock(s). Sulfide mineralization
Report (issue)
20 c = 8.19 Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Poorman mine, Idaho, USA. 3.25 (100), 3.49 (70), 2.84 (60), 2...38 Total 100.80 99.92 100.5 100.00 (1) Poorman mine, Idaho, USA; corresponds to Ag2.96 (Pb8.49 Cu0.61...61 Fe0.36 )Σ=9.46 Sb10.85 S28.00 . (2) Sheba mine, Nevada, USA; average of two analyses, corresponds...of hydrothermal origin. Association: Galena, sphalerite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite...Poorman mine, Silver City district, Owyhee Co., Idaho [TL] and at the Banner mine, Boise Co.; from the
Report (issue)
Skinner, EDITOR, Economic Geology, 91-A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Leadville-type ore (top) with rod-textured...are paralle l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in...fragments (dark gray), white tabular barite. green sphalerite , and pyrite aggregates in a light hrownis11-gray...cemented or veined with ferroan dolomite. rv1oose mine, North Alma district. Photographs b)' \Villiarn Sacco...Carbonate-hosted sulfide deposits of the central Colorado mine ral belt: Introduction, general discussion, and
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Palace Hotel Sulphide Street Railway Station South Mine headframes Centre: Typical miner's cottage Trades...BHP Mine Block 10 Mine Block 14 Mine British BHP Mine Junction Mine North Mine Central Mine South Mine...Mine Zinc Mine NBHC Mine The GrenOdye eee heiiee Geology Mining Production Ore Treatment History Architectural...downturn in copper mining at Burra and Kapunda in South Australia brought prospectors to the area in the late...more than 3 000, the majority of whom came from South Australia’s declining copper towns and the Victorian
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DENVER Figure 1. Location map for the Sweet Home mine, Park County, Colorado (modified from Holmes and...Kennedy 1983). Microminerals of the SWEET HOME MINE Alma, Park County, Colorado M A R K and K A R E N V...Box 1884 Ouray, Colorado 81427 T he Sweet Home mine has long been world famous for its superb, deep...beyond the fabulous rhodochrosites, the Sweet Home mine offers a very interesting suite of minerals for...micromineral collector. Location The Sweet Home mine is located in the upper part of Buck­ skin Gulch
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AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40 MADIASIMA...AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna B. Kennedy...Kennedy [aN VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATl TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE Copyright ©...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing...Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Manchester Library] at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production...a single zinc mineral, sphalerite. Fortunately for the collector, sphalerite tends to form well-crystallized...unusually large number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the record as that...the source of a correspondingly large number of sphalerite specimens. Inasmuch as the minerals of the now-closed...issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice (figs. 1 and 2 ) . Sphalerite is notable for its dodecahedral cleavage, the
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National University] at 06:43 31 December 2014 mine in Colorado, and they found virtually the entire...important ores of silver, as noted for Broken Hill, Australia (Birch 1999). It is commonly found in hydrothermal...associated with, among others, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, acanthite, bornite, calcite, dolomite... cuprite, covellite, pyrite, bournonite, and sphalerite after tetrahedrite (Palache, Berman, Figure 2...tetrahedrite and pyrite specimen from the Anchor mine, Park City, Utah. The specimen was in the stock
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localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...have been found in Colorado, including 66 that were new to science. Colorado has also been fortunate to host...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that...that depth does not change the character of the mine. One is impressed by the money as well as the scientific
 
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