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Copper from
Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cuprite2 photos of Copper associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Malachite2 photos of Copper associated with Malachite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:26303
Long-form Identifier:1:3:26303:4
GUID (UUID V4):5e3cea25-f712-498e-b8a0-019fd71fa1da
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
6.6km (4.1 miles) Selwyn Mine (Mount Selwyn Mine), Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
8.3km (5.2 miles) Mount Dore Mine (Mount Dore deposit), Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
21.9km (13.6 miles) Mount Elliott Mine (Mount Elliott Copper Mine), Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
76.9km (47.8 miles) Desolation prospect, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
86.2km (53.6 miles) A Lone Hand Mine, Malbon, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
97.9km (60.8 miles) Success Mine, Kuridala, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
provinces deduced from ores in the Mount Isa Eastern Succession, Australia G.J. Davidson 1 and G . H . Dixon...Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 7005 2 54 Marlyn Rd. South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 7004 Received: June...characteristics of ore deposits in the Australian Mount Isa Eastern Succession are not well known, unlike...vein-hosted Cloncurry-style Cu+_Au deposits (Hampden, Mt Elliot/Swan, Mt Cobalt, and the Answer Mine). All...sulphur isotopic studies in the Mount Isa Inlier of northern Australia have concentrated on the Western
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
during synmetamorphic alteration in the Selwyn Range area, NW Queensland: implications for the origin of ironstone-hosted...James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Qld. 4811, Australia Received: 2 September 1993/Accepted:...t a m o r p h i c rocks of the Selwyn Range area in western Queensland contain a variety of styles of...of Au + Cu deposit including some (e.g. Selwyn mine and O s b o r n e prospect) that are spatiallyassociated...geochemical data from the amphibolite facies zone of the Selwyn Range area suggest such processes occurred on a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...economic geology of the Mt Isa Eastern Succession, Queensland P. J. Williams a a National Key Centre in...James Cook University , Townsville, Qld, 4811, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007. To cite this article:...economic geology of the Mt Isa Eastern Succession, Queensland, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 45:3, 329-341, DOI: 10.1080/08120099808728395
Report (issue)
- 3), AUSTRALIA warps REE % BMR Bulletin spate aeeiemnnnent D. H. Blake Spee 8 gh on TAT ...AND GEOPHYSICS Geology of the Mount Isa Inlier and environs, Queensland and Northern Territory D. H....Government Publishing Service © Commonwealth of Australia 1987 ISBN 0 644 061774 ISSN 0084-7089 This Bulletin...I. Hartig, P Corbett and A. Retter Cover: Mount Isa mine—with 270 m-high concrete stack for the lead...Brecciated sediment-hosted copper deposits Shear and fault-controlled vein-copper deposits Uranium dep osits
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)
malachite, and the plethora of related supergene copper minerals; lead-dominated cerussite, anglesite,...particularly in fine specimens. One of these metals is cobalt. Its common sulfides and arsenides are the “parents”...powdery masses. Ideally, erythrite is hydrated cobalt arsenate with the formula Co3(AsO4)2•8H2O. It forms...crystals, suggesting color changes with varying cobalt and nickel content. Some analyses show iron and...forms in the oxide zone of deposits containing cobalt, commonly those containing primary Co-Ni-As mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
108–130 The protracted hydrothermal evolution of the Mount Isa Eastern Succession: A review and tectonic implications...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia b Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative...Centre, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Perth, Australia c Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research...University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia d Barrick Gold of Australia Limited, Level 10/2 Mill Street...iron-oxide–Cu–Au (IOCG) province of the Proterozoic Mount Isa Block occurred primarily as a consequence of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1974 Cobalt Mineralization at Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, with References to Mount Cobalt N. J...w . CROXVORD* Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia In North Western Queensland, Australia, there are numerous...small cobalt deposits of which Mount Cobalt is the largest. Recent work has shown that cobalt is also...a significant constituent of the Mount Isa copper ores. The cobalt-bearing minerals cobaltite, alloclasite...been identified. The cobaltites from Mount Isa and Mount Cobalt are compared and although they possess
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 1, Number................. A. Pring 3 Chalcophanite from Mount Stewart, NSW .... 9 B. England Zeolites from Daylesford...Some mines of the Mt Isa District, Queensland Part 2 -The Mount Cobalt mine ............ 17 B. Day &...Australian Museum North Terrace Adelaide, South Australia. INTRODUCTION One of the aims of the Australian
Journal (issue)
the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................der Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ........................................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
Journal (issue)
Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R... D. (1999) Famous mineral localities: Ting Tang mine, Gwennap, Cornwall 19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's...P. (1995) Crystallized Enargite from the Gregory mine, Ashover, Derbyshire 15:28-29 DAY, B. (1998) Collecting...& SMITH, M.E. (1993) The Minerals of the Peak District of Derbyshire 13:16-55 see also SARJEANT, W.A
Journal (issue)
the last hard rock mines in England. Frazer's Hush mine in Weardale is scheduled to close shortly and South...unfortunately this was too little too late to save the mine. A few hand specimens of siderite displaying drusy...cassiterite and wolframite were collected just before the mine closed. South Crofcy will perhaps be best remembered...Isles where large excavations have been made in mine dumps and left unfilled. This type of activity gives...pharmacosiderite collected from a shaft dump of Ting Tang mine (see separate article in this issue). The locality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deccan, i65 Ammonium calcium phosphate, Western Australia, 33 Amphibole, see Hastingsite, Hornblende, Fluor-richterite...534 Anhydrite, lsrael, 233 Antigorite, Western Australia, anal., X-ray, paragenesis, 313 Antimonite, lran...i55; CIrich hydroxy-fluor-, a guide to porphyry copper deposits, 288; Assynt, Scotland, Cl-poor, anal...Fluorapatite, Francolitc Aphthitalite, Western Australia, 33 Apophyllite, Somerset, 41o Appinite, Jersey... 437 Archerite, Western Australia, anal., opt., 33 Arisaig, Inverness-shire, tholeiite dykes, 273 ASHWORTH
Book
survival as Mount Isa. This book re- counts that struggle. The red ranges in Queensland have taunted...best ore-body, Mount Isa, was found by a horseman within a mile of a road. But that mine had a chain of...Russia’s largest mining empire and then lost Mount Isa. Mines in the Spinifex is both a fascinating...survey of the master problems to populate Australia its huge has to waste- lands. New sections... sion of mine and city, the celebrated strike, and the growth of the region of which Mount Isa is the
Report (chapter)
guide to copper and uranium mobility associated with regional metamorphism and deformation, Mount Isa, Queensland...Queensland L. A. I. Wyborn S U M MARY: At least four alteration types are identified in the basaltic...basaltic Eastern Creek Volcanics of the Mount Isa Inlier. The earliest alteration type, found in predominantly...metamorphism, and some uranium deposits in the western Mount Isa Inlier and possibly some small Cu deposits are...believed to be linked to the formation of the Mount Isa copper ore body. Geological setting The Eastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Victoria GPO Box 666 Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia dhenry@museum.vic.gov.au D efining “classic”...agree, however, that opal is synonymous with Australia (see Pecover in press) and that Broken Hill in...(McColl 1980). The large mimetite specimens from Mount Bonnie are discussed below, as are the world-class...from the Ranger mine. The copper deposits in the Mount Isa–Cloncurry region of Queensland have provided...provided a constant supply of fine copper minerals and rare species for the collector market. Although remote
Report (issue)
00 (AsO4 )4.11 (OH)1.47 • 11H2 O. (2) Mt. Cobalt, Australia; Fe3+ confirmed by Mössbauer spectra, H2...Bastnäs mine, near Riddarhyttan, Västmanland, Sweden. From Bou Azzer, Morocco. On Mt. Cobalt, 110 km...km south of Cloncurry, Queensland, and in the Dome Rock copper mine, about 40 km northwest of Mingary,... South Australia. At the Sara Alicia mine, near Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. From Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany...Germany. At the Muckross mine, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Name: To honor Professor Nikolai Alekseevich Smol’yaninov
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal copper deposits are dominated...dominated in their primary mineralogy by copper-bearing sulfide minerals such as chalcopyrite. When these deposits...2005), the sulfides become unstable and oxidize. Copper released from this reaction can form a plethora...“supergene” minerals, ranging from simple native copper and copper oxides to complex secondary minerals such...specimen of olivenite from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
smolyaninovite in the Mount Cobalt deposit, in north-western Queensland, Australia L. K. SMITH,x K. N.... Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia SUMMARY.Smolyaninovite, (Co, Ni, Ca, Mg)3 (Fe...recognized in the mineralized region around Mount Cobalt, Queensland. It is a soft polycrystallineearthy yellow-brownmaterial...beneficiation of cobalt minerals. As part of the investigation, samples were obtained from the cobalt-mineralized...around Mount Cobalt, which is situated some 11o km south of Cloncurry in north-west Queensland, Australia
Report (issue)
CONTENTS PAGE COBALT Introduction . • • • • • Mode of occurrence • • • • Ores and minerals of cobalt • • Mining...beneficiation and recovery • Preparation of cobalt • • • • Properties of cobalt " • • • Production, consumption and...• • • • • • 64 • • • • • • 66 79 COBALT DEPOSITS IN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES United Kingdom...India • • • Republic of Cyprus Australia • New Hebrides New Zealand COBALT DEPOSITS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES...refinery, South Wales . . . . ,, 12 PLATE III 1. Cobalt oxide reduction unit, Clydac~, South Wales . .
Journal (issue)
ARTICLES: Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1�):9-11 Definition... A. 2(1):21-24 Heulandite from the Illawarra District, NSW. Carr, P., Perkins, M., Chenhall, B., Pemberton...Minerals from. t� Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B. and Elliott, P. 2(2):57-70...2(2):57-70 The minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania. Haupt, J., Bottrill, R. and Sorrell, S. 1(1):3-19...Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Birch, W.D. 2(2):47-50 Post-mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit
Catalog/List
.k..Zill{ ITE. 9. rt2rn[ITE. Moldawa, Banat District, Hungary. A 1 cm. sharp well formed bright blue...Limonite mmtrix. 3x2". £8. 10. BARYTES. Haile Moor Mine, Nr. Egremont, W. Cumberland. Superb, intergrown...for displa;y. 4x2t". £4.50. 13 urium, httica District, Greece. Bright, " small, sharp blue crystals... £1. These are very rich examples of this rare Copper Selenide. 12. BLOMSTI\.lNDINE. hrendal, Southern...association. 2~xlt". £2. 16. CaSSITERITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. h mass of light brown fine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COBALT COMMODIT YMEETING Always the bridesmaid, never the bride: cobalt geology and resources Downloaded...Diego] at 04:56 03 March 2016 C. G. Smith Synopsis Cobalt is one of the least familiar metals and with a...of the Bou Azzer mine current production is entirely a secondary product of copper and nickel mining...mining. Thirty-four cobalt minerals have been recognized—principally sulphides, selenides, arsenides, sulpharsenides...sulphates and arsenates. The main ore minerals of cobalt are the sulphides cobaltite, linnaeite and carrollite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALIUM DEPOSITA 9 Springer-Verlag 1990 The Idaho cobalt belt, northwestern United S t a t e s A metamorphosed...metamorphosed Proterozoic exhalative ore district J.L. Nold Department of Earth Sciences, Central Missouri...Warrensburg, Missouri USA 64093 Abstract. In the Idaho cobalt belt, originally exhalative, stratiform mineralization...increasing regional metamorphic grade. The Idaho cobalt belt is located about 40 km west of Salmon, Idaho...important deposit in the district is the Blackbird mine which produced copper-cobalt ore sporadically from
Report (chapter)
Publications Geodynamic evolution of the Proterozoic Mount Isa terrain M. G. O'Dea, G. S. Lister, T. Maccready... 2012 Geodynamic evolution of the Proterozoic Mount Isa terrain M. G. O ' D E A , G. S. L I S T E R...Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Vic 3168, Australia 1School of Applied Geology, Curtin University... WA 6001, Australia 2MIM Exploration Pty Ltd, GPO Box 1042, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia Abstract: The...The Proterozoic Mount Isa terrain records the effects of four periods of intraplate tectonism. The c
 
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