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Muscovite from
Kara Mines, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kara Mines, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1619396
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1619396:7
GUID (UUID V4):91ae3ee6-696b-43f8-801e-628dd110bfa9
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
27.3km (17.0 miles) ā“˜Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
28.8km (17.9 miles) ā“˜Stormont mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
31.3km (19.5 miles) ā“˜Shepherd and Murphy Mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
32.5km (20.2 miles) ā“˜Moina Quarry, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
32.6km (20.2 miles) ā“˜All Nations mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
32.8km (20.4 miles) ā“˜HEC tunnel, Wilmot, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
32.9km (20.4 miles) ā“˜Hellyer-Que River Mines, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
33.2km (20.7 miles) ā“˜Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
33.8km (21.0 miles) ā“˜Princess Mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
37.3km (23.2 miles) ā“˜Anio Creek prospect, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
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pericline variety of albite, calcite, epidote, muscovite, quartz, titanite, chabazite, and stilbite. Another...ā€ 5.6 cm tall, Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu district, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Private collection...Scovil photo. Figure 5 (right). Fluorapatite and muscovite, 15 cm tall, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil. Fine Minerals...photo. Figure 6 (bottom right). Fluorapatite on muscovite, 7 cm tall, Nagar, Hunza Valley, GilgitBaltistan...and fluorapatite. Likewise, the ƘdegĆ„rden apatite mines, Bamble, Telemark, are also known for their chlorapatite
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Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Burlakov and Kotrly (1995), about 20 other quartz mines are operated in the region of the Subpolar Urals...which the famous Dodo and Puiva mines belong, and some of these other mines also yield ilmenite crystals...of rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning...testing to be hematite. Zagi [Zegi] Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings
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Pegmatite Field, Andrembesoa Commune, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province... Hydroboracite CaMgB6O8(OH)6Ā·3H2O Locality: District # 99, underground mine, Inder boron deposit, Atyrau...Data Na2B4O6(OH)2Ā·3H2O Locality: Kramer borate district, Kern Co., California, USA (type locality). Description:...Locality: Fuka mine, Bicchu-cho, near Takahashi city, Okayama prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan (type...Locality: Fuka mine, Bicchu-cho, near Takahashi city, Okayama prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan. Description:
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cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special... considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical...deemed more appropriate (and more likely to gain mining industry support) to propose designating copper...students lobbied members of the legislature, and had mining industry support backing them up. On May 1, 2015
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grey) fills gaps produced by cleavage of foliated muscovite (dark). Right: Kink-banding of layered molybdite...Internal Twinning Reflect. Coffinite Chrysocolla Muscovite isotropic, many scratches suggest otherwise ...Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia; PPL B Anhedral native copper (dark; scratches)...grey); HimmelsfĆ¼rst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany (sample: Seifert);...quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog Mine, Bullfrog District, Nye Co., Nevada, USA (sample: Witzke); PPL If
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of the Namaqua-Natal Metamorphic Province in the Karas Mountains, Namibia, defined by SHRIMP U-Pb dating...Limited, 62 Colin Street, West Perth, WA 6005 Australia. e-mail: donal@hartree.com R. A. Armstrong Research...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. e-mail: richard.armstrong@prise.anu.edu.au Ā©...Society of South Africa ABSTRACT Mapping in the Karas Mountains area of southern Namibia has shown the...1994, Eglington, 2006). The study area in the Karas Mountains of Namibia (Figure 1) straddles the boundary
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Wodgina deposit, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, Australia Volta Grande (Mibra mine), Nazareno, Minas...pegmatite, Spargoville, Coolgardie, Western Australia, Australia Moneia pegmatite, Alto Molocue, Namama Thrust...columbite-(Fe/Mn) columbite-(Fe) Rishi district, Bauchi Province, Nigeria Jantar tin mines, Kuru Camp, near Bukuru,...Kinnaird (1984) columbite-(Fe) Magburaka, Tonkilili district, Sierra Leone c d Vasilā€™ev et al. (2008, 2009)...region, Katanga, DRC Ruhanga pegmatite, Gatumba district, Rwanda Nemba, Eastern Province, Rwanda b/c b/c
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clearly marked on OS Maps). If you want to explore mines or quarries that arc still in use, it is essential...symbols. They also identify local quarries and mines and some of the more sparsely-distributed minerals...excavations and spoil heaps of the old Vitifer Tin Mines. The spoil heaps - which contain quartz with spectacular...pillars tl1at support the cavern roof. The Lake District and the northern Pennines arc other prime sites...other valuable materials extracted from Brazilian mines are asbestos ore, barite, beryllium, cassiterite
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF Memoir No. MINES If THE GEOLOGY OF THE WARMBAD DISTRICT SOUTH WEST AFRICA An Explanation...following report on the Geology of the \Xlarmb:id District - 1v1emoir No. 2, S.W.A. - written by Dr. S. H...added by Dr. \Xl. P. de Kock, until recently the Mining Authority of this Territory, and the whole chapter...obedient servant, ]. F. SCHROEDER, Acting Mining Authority. Mines Department, Windhoek, 19th March, 1936...following pages is that portion of the \Xiarmbad District of South \'
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Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia 6151, Australia 2 In this issue This New Mineral Names...chamositeā€“pennantite, eggletonite, kupletskite, muscovite, natrolite, orthoclase, quartz, and zircon. It...a new mineral from the Tintic District, Utah, and the Masonic District, California, USA. Canadian Mineralogist...originate from other nearby mines: Carisa, Boss Tweed, or Red Rose), Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah, U.S.A...Masonic district, Mono Co., California, U.S.A. The mineral is named for its type locality. The mines of the
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' I!,\ '1 REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES...II , MESSAGE FROM THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF MINES AND ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present...and diamonds continue to play a major role in the mining sector, significant deposits of base metals and...minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa. both in terms of production...fom1 that will provide the mineral exploration and mining industry with an important reference for further
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contaminant metals released by the January and March 2000 mining tailings dam failures in Maramure County, upper...Hg-contamination in soils and stream sediments in the mineral district of Nambija, Ecuadorian Amazon (example of an impacted...impacted area affected by artisanal gold mining)ā€”M.E. RamĆ­rez Requelme, J.F.F. Ramos, R.S. AngĆ©lica,...deposit, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australiaā€”S.M. Brown, C.A. Johnson, R.J. Watling, and W...Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics, South Australiaā€”S.R. Allen, C.J. Simpson, J. McPhie, and S.J.
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e (Uā€“Moā€“Re) deposit is located in the Skopino district of Ryazan Region [2] and is currently considered...ore bodies; a developed infrastructure of the district; the distribution of ore bodies in sandy permeable...Russia *e-mail: sleng2005@mail.ru reserves in the district, including at deeper horizons of the sedimentary...geological-genetic ore-formation model and new mining methods for the deposit. The data on the mineral...quartz in all samples in the light fraction; muscovite, aggregates of quartz grains, and coal were also
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Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 2522 SC RI PT 2. *Corresponding author: Benjamin...and likely extending southward through eastern Australia and Antarctica. 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Submitted...continuation of rocks found further south in Australia along what was then part of the ED northern...plagioclase, K-feldspar (mostly microcline), primary muscovite, and often garnet and tourmaline, but lacks biotite...pegmatites can contain varying amounts of primary muscovite, tourmaline, and rare garnet, but are often purely
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and Sherman P. Marsh 775 Electrical Methods in Mining Geophysics.Gerald W. Hohmann and Stanley H. Ward...making a profit. Initially incorporated in the District of Columbia, the Publishing Company was reincorporated...With the engineering and commercial aspects of mining, Economic Geology will not be directly concerned... . The main period of ore deposition within a district seems to represent a relatively short time span...the broad economic sense, although in a few cases mining development probably is quite a way down the road
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Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar 5 Korean Institute of Geology, Mining, and Materials, Taejon 6 Russian Academy of Sciences...(Changchun Branch), Korean Institute of Geology, Mining, and Materials, and Geological Survey of Japan/AIST...metallogenic subzone (2 to 20 by 103 km2); and (6) ore district (0.4 to 2.0 by 103 km2). However, often determination...metallogenic system versus metallogenic zone, or ore district versus deposit-hosting subzone. For this study...are employed: metallogenic belt and contained district. Generally, the size of metallogenic belts is
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deposits, and today, Namibia is the 5th largest mining country in sub-Saharan Africa. Several of the mineral...Tsumeb. Sudwestafrika). In the FirstWorld War Today,mining playsan important rolein Namibia wasoccupied bytheBritishtroops...the 20 leaUnion.Aftermorethan 100years,Nami- ding mining countries in the world. biahasbeenanindependent...Commercial transformed Namibiainto an especially mining operations began only in theseinteresting vacation...experienced travel guideor illustratedbook about itsfirst mining boom and in 1907the first Namibia. Thereexists
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Permian superterranes: BJ - Bureya-Jiamusi; KR - Kara Devonian aulacogen Modern rift system (Gakkel Ridge)...Ordovician Kara superterrane (KR), which consists of the late Neoproterozoic through Ordovician Kara continental-margin...skarn Fluorite greisen Granitoid-related Au vein Muscovite pegmatite Polymetallic Pb-ZnĀ±Cu (Ā±Ag, Au) vein...related Cu-Ni-PGE, mafic-ultramafic related Ti-Fe, muscovite pegmatite, Ta-Nb-REE alkaline metasomatite, W-Mo-Be...mafic-ultramafic related Cu-Ni-PGE deposits in the Norilsk district in northern Siberia. Favorable geologic environments
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Permian superterranes: BJ - Bureya-Jiamusi; KR - Kara Devonian aulacogen Modern rift system (Gakkel Ridge)...Ordovician Kara superterrane (KR), which consists of the late Neoproterozoic through Ordovician Kara continental-margin...skarn Fluorite greisen Granitoid-related Au vein Muscovite pegmatite Polymetallic Pb-ZnĀ±Cu (Ā±Ag, Au) vein...related Cu-Ni-PGE, mafic-ultramafic related Ti-Fe, muscovite pegmatite, Ta-Nb-REE alkaline metasomatite, W-Mo-Be...mafic-ultramafic related Cu-Ni-PGE deposits in the Norilsk district in northern Siberia. Favorable geologic environments
Report (issue)
Permian superterranes: BJ - Bureya-Jiamusi; KR - Kara Devonian aulacogen Modern rift system (Gakkel Ridge)...Ordovician Kara superterrane (KR), which consists of the late Neoproterozoic through Ordovician Kara continental-margin...skarn Fluorite greisen Granitoid-related Au vein Muscovite pegmatite Polymetallic Pb-ZnĀ±Cu (Ā±Ag, Au) vein...related Cu-Ni-PGE, mafic-ultramafic related Ti-Fe, muscovite pegmatite, Ta-Nb-REE alkaline metasomatite, W-Mo-Be...mafic-ultramafic related Cu-Ni-PGE deposits in the Norilsk district in northern Siberia. Favorable geologic environments
Report (issue)
Permian superterranes: BJ - Bureya-Jiamusi; KR - Kara Devonian aulacogen Modern rift system (Gakkel Ridge)...Ordovician Kara superterrane (KR), which consists of the late Neoproterozoic through Ordovician Kara continental-margin...skarn Fluorite greisen Granitoid-related Au vein Muscovite pegmatite Polymetallic Pb-ZnĀ±Cu (Ā±Ag, Au) vein...related Cu-Ni-PGE, mafic-ultramafic related Ti-Fe, muscovite pegmatite, Ta-Nb-REE alkaline metasomatite, W-Mo-Be...mafic-ultramafic related Cu-Ni-PGE deposits in the Norilsk district in northern Siberia. Favorable geologic environments
Report (issue)
Permian superterranes: BJ - Bureya-Jiamusi; KR - Kara Devonian aulacogen Modern rift system (Gakkel Ridge)...Ordovician Kara superterrane (KR), which consists of the late Neoproterozoic through Ordovician Kara continental-margin...skarn Fluorite greisen Granitoid-related Au vein Muscovite pegmatite Polymetallic Pb-ZnĀ±Cu (Ā±Ag, Au) vein...related Cu-Ni-PGE, mafic-ultramafic related Ti-Fe, muscovite pegmatite, Ta-Nb-REE alkaline metasomatite, W-Mo-Be...mafic-ultramafic related Cu-Ni-PGE deposits in the Norilsk district in northern Siberia. Favorable geologic environments
Report (issue)
Permian superterranes: BJ - Bureya-Jiamusi; KR - Kara Devonian aulacogen Modern rift system (Gakkel Ridge)...Ordovician Kara superterrane (KR), which consists of the late Neoproterozoic through Ordovician Kara continental-margin...skarn Fluorite greisen Granitoid-related Au vein Muscovite pegmatite Polymetallic Pb-ZnĀ±Cu (Ā±Ag, Au) vein...related Cu-Ni-PGE, mafic-ultramafic related Ti-Fe, muscovite pegmatite, Ta-Nb-REE alkaline metasomatite, W-Mo-Be...mafic-ultramafic related Cu-Ni-PGE deposits in the Norilsk district in northern Siberia. Favorable geologic environments
Report (issue)
Permian superterranes: BJ - Bureya-Jiamusi; KR - Kara Devonian aulacogen Modern rift system (Gakkel Ridge)...Ordovician Kara superterrane (KR), which consists of the late Neoproterozoic through Ordovician Kara continental-margin...skarn Fluorite greisen Granitoid-related Au vein Muscovite pegmatite Polymetallic Pb-ZnĀ±Cu (Ā±Ag, Au) vein...related Cu-Ni-PGE, mafic-ultramafic related Ti-Fe, muscovite pegmatite, Ta-Nb-REE alkaline metasomatite, W-Mo-Be...mafic-ultramafic related Cu-Ni-PGE deposits in the Norilsk district in northern Siberia. Favorable geologic environments
Report (issue)
Permian superterranes: BJ - Bureya-Jiamusi; KR - Kara Devonian aulacogen Modern rift system (Gakkel Ridge)...Ordovician Kara superterrane (KR), which consists of the late Neoproterozoic through Ordovician Kara continental-margin...skarn Fluorite greisen Granitoid-related Au vein Muscovite pegmatite Polymetallic Pb-ZnĀ±Cu (Ā±Ag, Au) vein...related Cu-Ni-PGE, mafic-ultramafic related Ti-Fe, muscovite pegmatite, Ta-Nb-REE alkaline metasomatite, W-Mo-Be...mafic-ultramafic related Cu-Ni-PGE deposits in the Norilsk district in northern Siberia. Favorable geologic environments
 
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