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Orthoclase from
Duchess, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia


Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Duchess, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1223781
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1223781:0
GUID (UUID V4):70cfeca6-bdee-48b4-872f-1be4384080bb
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
79.5km (49.4 miles) ⓘDesolation prospect, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
92.1km (57.2 miles) ⓘPlume prospect, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SCAPOLITIZATION IN THE CLONCURRY DISTRICT OF N O R T H - W E S T E R N Q U E E N S L A N D By A. B. E...north-western Queensland, centring on the Dugald River lead prospects, the old Duchess copper mine, and...an area of more than 50 square miles, while at Duchess they outcrop over more than 30 square miles. They...the volume of acid rocks exposed is small. A t Duchess, and at Trekelano, the granite and syenite rocks...scapolitization in the Cloneurry district of north-western Queensland is, therefore, of considerable interest, the
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Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia IAN T. GRAHAM1,2 ROSS E POGSON1 1 Geoscience...College Street, Sydney New South Wales 2010, Australia ian.graham@austmus.gov.au ross.pogson@austmus...New South Wales, Sydney New South Wales 2052, Australia Figure 1. The Albert Chapman Mineral Collection...the finest crystallized specimens ever found in Australia, representing an important part of Australia’s...CHAPMAN Albert Chapman was born in Mackay, north Queensland, in 1912. His father was a sea captain and amateur
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" The geology of the Small Isles of Inverness-shire," Mem. Geol. Surv. Scotland, 1908. Metamorphism...shelter. It was on account of this that the late Duchess of Bedford was prevented from landing in 1914 (1)...gannetry (5), and others have been published by the Duchess of Bedford (1). In the early hours of 31st July...Evans did not land on 28th June, 1890 (3), and the Duchess of Bedford, who paid three visits on 17th May,...The rock is chiefly composed of plagioclase and orthoclase felspars which rarely constitute less than 50
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Cu‐Au‐Co deposit, southeastern Marimo Basin, Queensland R. L. Krcmarov & J. I. Stewart To cite this article:...Cu‐Au‐Co deposit, southeastern Marimo Basin, Queensland, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45:3,...Cu-Au-Co deposit, southeastern Marimo Basin, Queensland R. L. KRCMAROV AND J. I. STEWART Downloaded...Homestake Gold of Australia Limited, PO Box 7189, Cloisters Square, Perth. WA 6850, Australia. The Greenmount...the southern Marimo Basin, some 40 km south of Cloncurry, A diorite intrudes the sequence and is altered
Journal (issue)
Victoria (1997) 19:38 Birch, W.D. (ed.) Zeolites of Australia (1989) 15:38 Bariand, P. & Bariand, N. Minereaux...Patrick 11:17 Gallagher, Mike 16:9 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 12:32 Greenock, Lord 11:4 Greg,...spodumene 16:10 PANSHIR beryl var. emerald 13:67 AUSTRALIA NEW SOUTH WALES Allies Mine, Deepwater molybdenite...TERRITORY Harts Range, Alice Springs quartz 19:28 QUEENSLAND Agate creek, Cobbold Gorge quartz var. agate...Mine quartz 19:24 Duck Creek, Cloncurry beyerite 19:28 Great Australia Mine atacamite 19:24,27 azurite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Norway, and of one pair from Cooma, N.S.W., Australia (cf. Kiseh, 1969). The electron microprobe methods...co-existing cummingtonitc and hornblende from Duchess, Queensland, and from Stewart Island, New Zealand (Watters...cummingtonite and hornblende ]rom Cooma, New South Wales, Australia Wet (rapid) analyses a Cure Ca-am Microprobe...Eifel; corundum and/or kyanite; wollastonite; orthoclase; pure metal; pure metal and/or Fe-rich cummingtonite...Italy Orange area, Mass. and N.H. Duchess township, Queensland, Australia Klein (1968), 5--10 Eskola (1950)
Book (volume)
Geology, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, Australia International Geological Correlation Programme...USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1986 First published...(D.R.) China Vietnam India J3 /3 Pakistan Australia /2 /3 1/4 /4 Economic considerations /5...and Cambrian phosphorites — regional review: Australia 20 P. F.HOWARD Introduction 20 Proterozoic evolution...Geosyncline — Stuart Shelf Phosphorite deposits 28 Duchess 3/ 6 37 38 Proterozoic and Cambrian phosphorites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
constituent minerals of the gneiss are oligoclase and orthoclase felspars, hornblende altering towards chlorite...island of Sule Skerry. REFERENCES. (1) BEDFORD, Duchess of. " Spring Bird Notes from Various Scottish Islands
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in this vicinity consists of quartz, andesine, orthoclase, sfllimanite, biotite, garnet, ilmenite, graphite...and hornblende in an amphibolite from Duchess, Queensland, Australia. Am. Mineralogist 47, 360--370 (1962)
Book
Moonstone Shimmering colour Sunstone Labradorite Orthoclase Microcline Albite Bytownite Lapis lazuli Jewels...Designers' heyday Dioptase Sugilite Iolite Benitoite Duchess of Windsor’s Cartier flamingo brooch Tourmaline...woven into the fabric of national mythologies. In Australia, opals feature prominently in enchanting creation...Apatite Fluorite 6 Scratches glass easily Orthoclase 7 Cuts glass Scratches glass very easily Quartz...contributes a huge amount of the world’s ruby supply; Australia formerly dominated the precious opal market, although
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Consists of biotite, quartz, andesine, and a little orthoclase and diopside (see MacGregor, 1937, p. 470 and...andesine, quartz, and poikilitic crystals of orthoclase (see MacGregor, 1937, pp. 471-2, and fig 3, A)...oligoclase, with a little biotite, museovite, and orthoclase, and plates of calcite in a fine base of chloritic...Hill. Consists of quartz, diopside, plagioclase, orthoclase, and a little biotite and hornblende. F. Greywacke...consist of biotite, hornblende, plagioclase, orthoclase, and quartz: they have the mineralogy of the
Book
of Mineralogy, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Herr H. Hofmann and Frau Heidrun Fuchs of the...Thomson's collection, National Museum of Victoria, Australia) and became national treasures, numerous aspects...CLACKMANNANSHIRE 5 KINROSS-SHIRE 8 RENFREWSHIRE 7 WEST LOTHIAN 8 MIDLOTHIAN 9 PEEBLES-SHIRE 10 SELKIRKSHIRE...tours, all the remarkable minerals in Dumfries-shire, the Forest of Selkirk, Tiriotdale, Ayrshire, 18...from thc5e drawers by Lord Gray to Elizabeth, Duchess of Gordon in 1828, Catalogueentriesfor drawer
Journal (issue)
the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ...........................................................466 by W. D. Birch The Mount Isa-Cloncurry mineral f ie ld ................................University of Wollongong Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500 Australia Thomas G. Vallance Department of Geology University...University of Sydney Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land...minerals and mines in their plans to establish Australia as a new colony in the late 18th century. The
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Moonstone Shimmering color Sunstone Labradorite Orthoclase Microcline Albite Bytownite Lapis lazuli Jewels...Designers' heyday Dioptase Sugilite Iolite Benitoite Duchess of Windsor’s Cartier flamingo brooch Tourmaline...Apatite Fluorite 6 Scratches glass easily Orthoclase 7 Cuts glass Scratches glass very easily Quartz...contributes a huge amount of the world’s ruby supply; Australia formerly dominated the precious opal market, although...Superpit Located in Kalgoorlie in central Western Australia, the Superpit is Australia’s largest open pit
Report (volume)
underground workings at the Bonanza mine, June, 1909... Duchess tunnel, Latouche Island..........................larger crystals are orthoclase, and the minerals of the groundmass are quartz, orthoclase, plagioclase, biotite...grains, together with the much scarcer grains of orthoclase and plagioclase, are closely fitted to each other...appearance. The microscope shows that a few of the orthoclase crystals are slightly porphyritic. These larger...physical conditions of the molten rock while the orthoclase was crystallizing. Some of the crystals have
Journal (issue)
France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony...staircases and an infinity of nooks and crannies (see Duchess of Devonshire, 1982; 2002), there is plenty of...volume 36, May–June, 2005 Figure 2. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the famous portrait by Thomas Gainsborough...specimens were left on the table for the Duke and Duchess to see, since no one in modern Chatsworth had seen...curatorial staff were supportive, the Duke and Duchess enthusiastic, and work began. At the time we had
Journal (issue)
ravines, rocks and hills. Duchess County (that is, the county of the Duchess of York, the daughter of...rivals in any other county anywhere. Just as the Duchess of York gave the name to the county, so the Duke...00; Wiserine, $2.50; Xenotime, Norway, $3.00; Orthoclase and Albite, twinned in parallel position, Baveno... only 15c, 25c ; Wolframite, Zinnwald, 25c ; Orthoclase, Karlsbad twin, Karlsbad, Bohemia, 25c. 35c;...i zed Wood, Cal., Col 10 Orpiment, Persia 25 Orthoclase, Col., Mass 10 Pearl Spar, R. I., N. Y 10 Pectolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Tennant Creek region, Northern Territory, Australia, and its relationship to Cu-Au-Bi mineralisation...Tasmania, G.P.O. Box 252C, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 2 Northern Territory Geological Survey, P.O. Box...2655, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0871, Australia Received: 3 September 1993 / Accepted: 9 March...this intrusive varies from coarse grained with orthoclase microperthite megacrysts (up to 8 cm), to strongly...the Proterozoic Tennant Creek Block, central Australia. BMR J. Aust. Geol. Geophys. 2:111 122 Black,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
containing andalusite, sillimanite, cordierite, orthoclase, etc. (ibid., pp. 173--186). The Ca-poor clino-amphibole...cummingtonite and hornblende in an amphibolite from Duchess, Queensland. Am. Mineralogist 47, 360 370 (1962). VISWA~ATHAN
Journal (issue)
INSIDE BENDS Working an old river course in South Australia WHAT'S ON After the Christmas break things are...finally stakes his claim on 900 square metres of Queensland THE GOLDEN GLITTER OF MR RITTER Armed robbery...oldest suppliers of prospecting equipment in Australia with over 20 years in business and a name you...mineral and fossil collectors, came over from South Australia to Warrnambool for a 'long weekend' of fossicking...visit during fossicking trips to Mannum in South Australia earlier in the year. While holidaying in Warrnambool
Book
Gesellschaft, Germany) Dermot Henry (Museum Victoria, Australia) David Herd (National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh)...House, Isle of Wight) Linda Hutson (Brisbane, Australia) Frank Ince (Loughborough) Mark Jacobson (Denver...Journals Ud, Aberdeen) Malcolm Southwood (Melbourne, Australia) Brian Starkey (Cambridge) Carol Starkey (Worcester)...by the present work comprises parts of Inverness-shire, Banffshire and Aberdeenshire. Prior to 1890 the...boundary between the three counties of Inverness-shire, Banffshire and Aberdeenshire was modified. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen. Detrital grains of badly weathered orthoclase and remarkably fresh oligoclase occur in most...chemical Detrital minerals bearing Ba such as orthoclase precipitation being negligible. and biotite are...averaging 1200 p.p.m. Ba. There is some detrital orthoclase visible in thin-sections of these rocks but whether...&4RTIx T. (1936) Petrology of Palaeozoic rocks from Duchess Co., New York. Bull. GeoZ. Xoc. Amer. 47, 775850
Book (volume)
China, as well as Udaipur, India, and Georgina, Australia. A number of phosphorite-bearing basins are located...extensive and abundant in Asia and neighbouring Australia but absolutely lacking in the North America. And...the Neogene while in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia there are no neognic phosphorites discovered and...depositions (in Africa, the European part of the USSR, Australia, etc.) are linked. Favorable climatic conditions...of the phosphate deposits of Northwest Queensland, Australia: Econ. Geol., 1972, v. 67. 38. Cook, P.J
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Departmentof MinesandEnergy,G.P.O.Box2901,Darwin,Queensland, 5794,Australia M. SOLOMON, Bureauof Mineral Resources...Resources,G.P.O. Box378, Canberra,A.C.T. 2601, Australia AND J. L. WALSHE Departmentof Geology,AustralianNationalUniversity...AustralianNationalUniversity,G.P.0. Box4, Canberra,A.C.T. 2601, Australia Abstract The Emperorgoldtelluride depositconsists...but of lesseconomicimportanceincludethe Cardigan,Duchess,Monarch,Regent,and Princeof Wales. mineralsare...ankerite, dolomite,quartz,chlorite,K-feldspar(orthoclase?), pyrite, andrare magnetite Variable Greenishgraywith
Journal (issue)
rock has almost perfectly regular large pink orthoclase phenocrysts set in a dense mosaic of black schorl...written in 1945, by Nancy Mitford, the Dowager Duchess’ late sister) MERCIAN GEOLOGIST 2008 17 (1) The...comprise three main collections, those of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), those of her son the...he began his work. Watson also instructed the Duchess in mineralogy, and an interesting hand-written...very crowded in this limited space. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire The Devonshire Mineral Collection
 
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