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Fluorite from
Biggenden Mine, Mount Biggenden, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Biggenden Mine, Mount Biggenden, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:203384
Long-form Identifier:1:3:203384:6
GUID (UUID V4):cd3969ac-c80b-4cfb-bb84-2aeb1e2d1898
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
17.2km (10.7 miles) Coalstoun Lakes porphyry copper prospect, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia
References
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Book (volume)
Chalcopyrite) Cata Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,...Amethyst (scepter) Goboboseb Mts., Brandberg, Erongo Region, Namibia, 60 (on Quartz) Jackson Crossroads, Wilkes...Apatite (with Bikitaite) Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, 46 Oaksaungtaung, Pein-Pyit...Div., Myanmar, 22 Aphthitalite PCA Intrepid Potash Mine, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 22 Axinite (Magnesio-Axinite)...Pakistan, 7 Azurite (& Malachite) "Sams Pocket", Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 20-21 Bastnaesite (on Calcite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
W. 2351, Australia 2 Department of Geology, University of Newcastle, N.S.W. 2308, Australia Abstract...target, which, in the Tasman Fold Belt of eastern Australia, has been manifest in the search for Cu, Zn, Au...operations (e.g. Red Dome and Browns Creek (Au), Biggenden (magnetite), King Island and Kara (W) and Renison...sulphidebearing Ban Ban skarn in southeastern Queensland (25°47'S, 151°58'E; Ashley 1980), the Sn-bearing...1976; Barnes 1983; Plimer 1984a, 1986), Pegmont, Queensland (Vaughan and Stanton 1986), Broken Hill, Aggeneys
Report (issue)
List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject Index, p....Index, p. 60; : Subject Index, p. 86 : Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95...95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject Index...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...to as “ 30 miles from A,” “ 40 miles from B,” “ north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same
Journal (issue)
Newnham 10 Heyington Close, Croydon Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile (03) 9723 5041...Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 3, Number...Articles: The Coolgardie pegmatite field, Western Australia Mark I. Jacobson ......................... 91...M11se11111 ofVic10ria Associate Editors The Daydream Mine, Silverton, N.S.W. John D. Leach .................associated with ironstones in the Olary region, South Australia P.M. Ashley, B.G. Lottermoser, K.M. Scott
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Coalst(u P(n'plyryCopperProspect, Southeast Queensland, Australia P.M. ASHLEY, W. G. BILLI>4C•:OX,R. L. GRA•4A•r...pectin southeastQueensland lies adjacentto the north-northwest-trending Perry fault zone near the intersectionwith...has led to the discoveryof numerous of eastern Queensland (e.g., Lacy, 1974a; Ford 945 946 ,4SHLEY,BILLINGTON...Coalstounprospectis adjacentto the Perry fault zone, a major north-northwest-trending structure in southeastQueenslandwhich...of the Coalstounporphyry copper prospect, Queensland,Australia. boniferous metasediments of the Coastal
Journal (issue)
Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement To The Mineralogical Record, September–October 2020 ... Mineral Collections in Australia Organized by Robert Sielecki Designed by Wendell Wilson with Photography...September–October, 2020 Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September–October...1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Magnetite Zinc Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological...recent decades have come not from a New York iron mine but from one of its interesting zinc mines. One...fine specimen from the Zinc Corporation of America mine No. 4 at Balmat. Magnetite is one of many black...several stand out. The famous Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County (see Cook 2008 and...deep in the Zinc Corporation of America’s No. 4 mine at Balmat, St. Lawrence County, is well known for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ilvaite from Broken Hill, N.S.W. and Ban Ban, Queensland, Australia I. R. PLIMER University of New South Wales...2880 AND P. M. ASHLEY Minerals Department, Esso Australia Ltd., G.P.O. Box 4o47, Sydney, N.S.W. 2ooi SUMMARY...galena + argentian-tetrahedrite + Mn silicates + fluorite(___plumbian orthoclase + quartz)-rich at the top...ilvaite in manganese silicates from the Pinnacles Mine, Broken Hill and Lawrence (I968) records its presence...rhodonite-rich rocks from the New Broken Hill Consolidated Mine. The ilvaite described here is from the uppermost
Report (issue)
Experanza Exploration's Red Dome deposit, Queensland, Australia. These and many other deposits have been...g/tonne. These deposits include: Tennent Creek, Australia; Landusky-Zortman, Montana; Ertsberg, Indonesia;...Lorn, Thailand; and others. Although the Mt. Biggenden, Austrialia magnetite-bismuth-gold skarn is classified...Au ore. Total Au production to 1969 from Mt. Biggenden is more than 7,000 oz, of which 5,751 oz were...known in the Moina Mining District, Tasmania, Australia, which is largely known for its Sn-W skarn and
Journal (issue)
course of investigation of the economic geology of north-eastern Victoria. several pyrope garnet crystals...Corryong batholith. Garnet is reasonably common i n north-eastern Victoria, being found in granite gneiss...southern Africa. Siberia. and rcccntlv in Western Australia. The Koctong garnets arc the onlv indication of...of a small -kimbcrlite intrusion in the Koetong region. Pyrope garnet could not have been derived from...Lcggo. op.cit.). Thus the igneous rocks in the region appear to have formed and equilibrated in the upper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TASMAN FOLD BELT SYSTEM IN QUEENSLAND C.G. MURRAY Geological Survey of Queensland, G.PO. Box 194, Brisbane...Brisbane, Qld. 4001 (Australia) (Accepted for publication F e b r u a r y 26, 1986) Abstract Murray, C.G....o p m e n t of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland. In: E. Scheibner (Editor), Metallogeny and T...T e c t o n i c Development of Eastern Australia. Ore Geol. Rev., 1: 315--400. The n o r t h e r n part...part of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland comprises three segments, the T h o m s o n , Hodgkinson--
Report (volume)
Schematic cross sections of Au-skarn deposits in north-central Nevada 8 Map showing distribution of Au-skarn...geological provinces in the cordillera of western North America 10 Map showing worldwide distribution of...complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...representative samples from five Au-bearing skarn systems in north-central Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges...samples from three Au-bearing skarn systems in north-central Nevada 17 Photomicrograph showing massive
Journal (issue)
FERROAN JOHANNSENITE FROM THE NORTH MINE, BROKEN HILL, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA W.R. Ryall CSI RO Division of...of M ineralogy, P.O. Box 1 36, North Ryde, N.S. W. 2 1 1 3, and Albert Chapman 290 G lebe Point Road,...rounded and often enclosed i n granular calcite or fluorite with apatite (Lawrence. 1968). Crystals upto 50...cavity on the 12th level of the Zinc Corporation mine. Binns ( 1968) reported asbestiform bustamite from...oft he New Broken H ill Consolidated (N .B.H.C.) mine in 1966. This material was very fine­ grained with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abandoned quarries between Auckland and the tip of the North Island. Karl was known as a flamboyant character...Blue Bell mine on Sunday, under the guidance of Dr. Robert Housley. As with most other North American...Treasures, an exposition of the photomicrographs and mine views taken by Hall of Fame member Bill Hunt, now...February, is probably the most unstructured in North America, but that suits folks just fine. Figure...satisfied themselves that warmer weather was heading north, micromounters began to do the same, winding up
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(veins) - W Cornwall (England) Ukalunda (Queensland) Meymac hydrothermal (France) veins - Ag-Co-Ni...District) Sin Loa (Mexico) (Italy) Kilkivan (Queensland) exhalative-fumarolic - Pb-Bi Vulcano Contact...Ukalunda the sulfides were determined by a gas(Queensland) with +3.3O/oo, Jiangxi mass-spectrometer measuring... Collection Location W Ukalunda mineral (Queensland) Science (CSSR), Praha, + 3.3 W-Bi-mineralization...2.6 contact (Queensland) Bi2S 3 - 4.2 hydrothermal 69 W Kilkivan (Queensland) Bi2S 3 - 4.6
Book
PALAONTOLOGY OF QUEENSLAND AND NEW GUINEA, WITH SIXTY-KIGHT PLATES AND A GEOLOGICAL MAP OF QUEENSLAND. BY ... ROBERT GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST FOR L. JACK, QUEENSLAND; F.G.S., FORMERLY OF THE F.R.G.S., GEOLOGICAL..., Minister for Mines and Public Instruction, Queensland. BRISBANE: JAMES CHARLES BEAL, GOVERNMENT...the collection as a record of the Geology of Queensland up to date. My labours in the field, occupying...say that this beau ideal has been reached in Queensland. In every country, and especially in every new
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 4. Industrial...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
Journal (issue)
LIMITED 11 8 Hayward Avenue, Torrensville South Australia 5031 Telephone: (08) 8238 0888 Facsimile: (08}...If you want to sell it, you 'll sell it here THE MOUNT WILLIAM GOLDRUSH Fine alluvial gold is still to...Victoria where gold produced from the Comstock gold mine in St Arnaud was approximately 50 per cent fine...fine whereas gold won from the Nagambie gold mine at Nagambie regularly achieved a purity of 99 per cent...prospectors in the Murchison Club Hotel in Cue, Western Australia, for $25/gram when the price of gold was only
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CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 Australia 14. G.BAR DOSS Y KARSTIC BAUXITES 15. A.W. ROSE..."Broadly regarded, the depth ta which a metalliferous region has been eroded affects its present characteristics...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Buddington (1959) in his classical paper on the North American granites, proposed a three-fold depth subdivision...Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay) straddle the intrusive contacts and
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CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 Australia 14. G.BÄRDOSSY KARSTIC BAUXITES 15. A.W. ROSE..."Broadly regarded, the depth to which a metalliferous region has been eroded affects its present characteristics...sills), if they are exposed in outcrop or in the mine workings at all. The Climax Mo complex is the best...Buddington (1959) in his classical paper on the North American granites, proposed a three-fold depth subdivision...Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay) straddle the intrusive contacts and
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LIMITED 118 Hayward Avenue, Torrensville South Australia 5031 Telephone: (08) 8238 0888 Facsimile: (08)...aplenty but exactly where? 16 RUBY WILL YOU BE MINE 1.85 carats worth $10,000 from the Willows Gemfield...was unaware they were literally camped on a gold mine! TH£ GR£AT£ST VND£RWAT£R D£T£ Ti R lN TH£ WORLD...metal detecting career, with trips to Western Australia and Tibooburra and years of low and slow plodding...fri en dships with detectorists from all over Australia. He is retiring this year to his bush block at
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Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...County, California, USA and in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Fine dendritic aggregates occurred in the Hope's...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from
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2 Gypsum 7 Quartz 3 Calcite 8 Topaz 4 Fluorite 9 Corundum 5 Apatite 10 Diamond SPECIFIC...(Arizona), Tsumeb (Namibia) and Surra Burra (Australia). C Cu Colour: light rose-red on fresh surface... and one of 93kg (2051b), found in Hill End (Australia). Gold is found in igneous rocks, often associated...(South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia. G Au Colour: characteristi...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:
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2 Gypsum 7 Quartz 3 Calcite 8 Topaz 4 Fluorite 9 Corundum 5 Apatite 10 Diamond SPECIFIC...(Arizona), Tsumeb (Namibia) and Surra Burra (Australia). C Cu Colour: light rose-red on fresh surface... and one of 93kg (2051b), found in Hill End (Australia). Gold is found in igneous rocks, often associated...(South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia. G Au Colour: characteristi...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:
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system includes the following minerals: halite, fluorite, garnets, magnetite, pyrite, galena, sphalerite...— rock salt (halite), gypsum; 3 — calcite; 4— fluorite; 5 -- apatite; 6 — feldspar (orthoclase); 7 —...azurite. Many minerals are varicoloured, e.g. fluorite and tourmaline. Some minerals display different...specimen its magnetic axis always points to the north pole. Thus, by using accurately positioned speci-...gamma rays. Minerals having colour centres include fluorite, smoky quartz and morion, irradiated diamonds
 
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