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Chromite from
Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Chromite
Formula:Fe2+Cr23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chromite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:420872
Long-form Identifier:1:3:420872:3
GUID (UUID V4):6112bd3e-2801-415c-a4f2-fed017f58b59
Localities for Chromite in this Region
Halls Open Cut, Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Chromite
1.4km (0.8 miles) Halls Open Cut, Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
17.5km (10.9 miles) Gadtech Sunshine quarry, Florentine valley, Maydena district, Central Highlands municipality, Tasmania, Australia
44.9km (27.9 miles) Jane River goldfield, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
48.5km (30.2 miles) Forster Prospect, Weld river district, Huon-Channel region, Huon Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
94.3km (58.6 miles) Rocky Boat Harbour Osmiridium Field, New River Lagoon district, Huon Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Corporate Document (Series)
A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill and W. E. Baker...Baker Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources E>...rossi'oilittes PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone (03) 6233 8377 Fax (03) 6233 8338 Email info@mrt...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrttas.gov.au ©Copyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...alloys from boninitic magmas: Evidence from western Tasmania a b David C. Peck , Reid R. Keays & Ramsey J...Vic., 3052, Australia c Formerly of the Department of Geology , University of Tasmania , GPO Box 252C...252C, Hobart, Tas., 7001, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007. To cite this article: David C. Peck...alloys from boninitic magmas: Evidence from western Tasmania, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Geology and Petrology of the Adamsfield Ultramafic Complex, Tasmania R. Varne 1 and A.V. Brown 2 Department...University of Tasmania, Box 252C, G.P.O., Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 2 Geological Survey of Tasmania, Box...Box 124B, G.P.O., Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Abstract. The Adamsfield Ultramafic Complex is one...Cambrian time in the Tasman Geosyncline. The Adamsfield complex is composed of partlyserpentinized dunites...compositions apparently failed to react further. Adamsfield mineral assemblages probably crystallized originally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BELT SYSTEM IN TASMANIA P . L . F . C O L L I N S a n d E. W I L L I A M S Tasmania Geological Survey...of Mines, p.o. Box 56. Rosny Park, Tasm. 7018 (Australia) (Accepted for publication January 13, 1986 )...in Tasmania. In: E. Scheibner (Editor). Metallogeny and Tectonic Development of Eastern Australia. Ore...Ore Geol. Rev., 1 : 153--201. In western Tasmania, Precambrian sedimentary sequences form the basement...for Tertiary secondary deposits of platinoids, chromite and lateritic nickel. In the Dundas Trough, Eocambrian--Early
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsof Tasmania M. SOLOMON GeologyDepartrnent,G. P. 0., Box252C, Universityof Tasmania,Hobart, Tasmania7001...Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract The major operatingmetallic ore depositsof Tasmaniaare (a) volcanic-hosted...mineral- reconstruction of the land masses around Tasmania just prior to the openingof the TasmanSea in... 1971). Unfortunately the relationshipbetween Tasmania and adjacentpartsof the Tasmanfold belt in earlier...depositsnear complexis overlainby subhorizontal Adamsfield and Bald Hill until about 1958 and, until to
Book (edition)
Gemstone Minerals in Tasmania Department of State Growth Mineral Resources Tasmania Occurrences of Gemstone...Gemstone Minerals in Tasmania (8th edition 2nd printing) Compiled by R. S. Bottrill and W. L. Matthews...November 2019 Mineral Resources Tasmania PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 www.mrt.tas.gov.au ISBN 0...As a result the Crown in Right of the State of Tasmania and its employees, contractors and agents expressly...sources. These include: Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania by W. F. Petterd, 1910 (a revised edition was
Book
# ' 'M & va ;>1 MINERALS All GEMSTONES OF TASMANIA v. AND THEIR LOCATIONS By KEITH E. LANCASTER...LANCASTER Si "s MINERALS All :' GEMSTONES OF TASMANIA AND THEIR LOCATIONS By KEITH E. LANCASTER The author...panning for osmiridium at the “Clay Bank”, west of Adamsfield. Published by GEMCRAFT PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD...National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0909223 04 1 Printed in Australia by Quadricolor Industries...specimens are likely to be discovered in the State of Tasmania. Over the past decade the popularity of the lapidary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ite Occurrencesin the HeazlewoodRiver Complex,Tasmania DAVID C. PECK* AND REID R. KEAYS Departmentof...Universityof Melbourne,Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia Abstract Three distinctivechromititeoccurrences...groupmineral, occurringasisolatedinclusionsin chromite. A wide variety of Pt and Rh mineralsare containedin...group of the ultramafic Heazlewood River Complex, Tasmania. platinum-groupelementsfrom the Pd group of the...accounting for the platinum-group mineral-chromitite Tasmania(Fig. 1). The HeazlewoodRiver Complex occurrencesin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals’ type locality at Stichtite Hill, Tasmania, Australia, in order to assess the extent to which trace...this Study The stichtite occurrences of Tasmania, Australia are hosted by serpentinized mid-Cambrian...have formed during tectonic emplacement of the Adamsfield Ultramafic Complex [29]. All three of these serpentinite...Stichtite mineralization occurs mainly within massive chromite-rich green serpentinite, and rarely within its...come from the Stichtite Hill locality of Tasmania, Australia, which is the type location for this mineral
Report (issue)
ruthenarsenite, michenerite, laurite, geversite, moncheite, chromite. ?? Distribution: In Canada, from several properties...Witwatersrand. From the Heazlewood and Adamsfield districts, Tasmania, Australia. At Ironstone Creek, Parapara
Report (chapter)
Tethyan- and Cordilleran-type ophiolites of eastern Australia: implications for the evolution of the Tasmanides...Box 28E, Monash University, Clayton, Vic. 3800, Australia (e-mail: catherine@mail.earth.monash.edu.au) 2School...University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia 3Department of Geological Sciences, University...Centre), Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia (e-mail: c.spaggiari@curtin.edu.au) Abstract:...ophiolitic rocks in the Tasmanides of eastern Australia reflects a period of complex oceanic crust formation
Report (chapter)
(Oman), Troodos, Vourinos Bay of Islands* Papua, Adamsfield, Khan Taishir SW JapanPrimodye Oeyama Yakuno...northern m61ange has a Cr-number of 0.70, and the chromite grains are characterized by Fe3+-poor cores containing...Davies 1973; Jaques & Chappell 1980) and Adamsfield (Tasmania; Varne & Brown 1978). Highly depleted harzburgite...such as Hokkaido (Horokanai), Papua, and Tasmania (Adamsfield). The association of some DH-type ophiolites...giant chromite deposits of Kempirsai, Kazakhstan: a study of solid and fluid inclusions in chromite. Journal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Studies, University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract Volcanic-hosted...00 720 PREC10USMETAL GRADES,VHMSDEPOSITS,W. TASMANIA 7 21 T tJF"'"'"'":"""'.:::...... "::":•:'....gradesfor AustralianVHMS deposits. Symbols: ß -- Tasmania, ß = Queensland, •r = WesternAustralia, ß -- New...TyennanandRockyCapere- PRECIOUSMETAL GRADES,VHMSDEPOSITS,W. TASMANIA 723 gions(Turner,1989). The ultramaficrocks...mafic-ultramafic comNb, and Ba) by XRF at the Universityof Tasmania plexes,(4) volcanicsand associated sedimentsfrom
Report (edition)
British G1-1iana • • •• India .. • • • • • • Australia .. • • • • Papua .. • • • • • • New Guinea • •...quantities were produced in U.S.A., Canada and Australia. In 1934, howe,rer, Canada for the first time...•• (Banket). 33·83 28·68 12·51 8·62 0·43 0·50 Tasmania. 45·55 42·24 7·92 l ·91 0·25 0·01 Native iridium...district of the U.S.S.R., Colombia, Abyssinia, Australia, Tasmania, Br'itish Columbia, Sierra Leone and western...3911 New South Wales: so, ( !rude platinum I Tasmania: Osmiridium • • 1,174 - 78 69 - -=-32 1 79
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spinels with high Cr/ (Cr+Al+Fe3+) ratio in the Adamsfield ultramafic complex, which was formed as a cumulate...empirical Spinels from T. N. in Japan. pleonaste-chromite-magnetite positions in some Inst. Washington...Inst. The Wright, 1965 76, studies volcano chromite and Geol., 396-403. (1967) and liquidus...English R. N. (1973) Titanian titanomagnetite chromite from a and Snake River the basalt, spinels...826-830. (1978) The Brown, A. V. of Adamsfield the Tasmania. Contrib. to geology ultramafic Mineral
Report (issue)
___ ----------------------Australia-------------------------------------Tasmania---------------------------------New...location of gold-platinum placer deposits, Tulameen Valley, British Columbia-----------------------------...Osmiridium and platinum from the Heazelwood and Adamsfield districts, Tasmania______________ 30. Platinum..._______________________ 39. Placer gold, Yukon Valley, Alaska_________________________________________________________...lenticular masses of chromite, or are sparsely and widely distributed in association with chromite, within the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
~ - ~ 2 ~. * Ligurian ,. q:~o~e-~'--~ 0 Adamsfield or (15') vsp / vo~ where the Cr content of...1971), Ligurian (Ernst and Piccardo 1979) and Adamsfield (Varne and Brown 1978) (1 - x~ where A and...xenoliths (Goto 1982), Red Mountain (Sinton 1977) and Adamsfield (Varne and Brown 1978) the original data points... Fig. Nicolas 1972). On the other hand, the Adamsfield samples, which are from Tasmanian ophiolite complexes...Union, pp 391-399 Basu AR, MacGregor 1D (1975)* Chromite spinels from ultramafic xenoliths. Geochim Cosmochim
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1983 Platinum-Group-Mineral Inclusions in Chromite from the Bird River Sill, Manitoba* W. Talkington**...minerals (PGM) have been identified as inclusions in chromite from the Bird River Sill, Manitoba. The inclusions...palladium has been detected. Laurite inclusions in chromite from the ultramafic zone record two compositional...inclusions occur as discrete phases in chromite and are part of the chromite precipitation event. Increasing...assimilation or new magma injection initiates chromite precipitation, locally increasing the sulphur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MassiveSulfideDeposits in the Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics,Tasmania K. D. CORBETT Department of MinesandMineralResources...Hobart,Tasmania 7018,Australia Abstract The Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics of western Tasmania host the...and the portionof the belt exposedin southwest Tasmania(Fig. 1). The mapshave provideda large amountof...clasticsequences, Ordoviciancarbonates, andSiluroof Western Tasmania Devonian clastic sequences.Both terranes were...leasttenPrecambrian blocksarepresentin western Tasmania,the mostprominentbeing the centrally placedTyennanregionand
Journal (issue)
Featured in This Issue Osmiridium Mining in Tasmania. By P. Ormsby Lennon Beryllium in Maine. By... Burr, Geologist The Geology of the Hutchin.on Valley Sanitary Sewer Tunnel. By Thomas W . Fluhr, A.... MARCH QUARTERLY 1931 Osmiridium Mining in Tasmania --By-- P. OR~ISBY LENNON, Royat E1npire Society...obtained as a platinum ore by-product, and from Tasmania, where it is found in a 1 ' free" or alluvial...£4~. lOs., the highest price ever obtained in Tasmania. It is said that the London price once reached
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
silica-saturation of the rocks. Chromium-rich chromite would crystallize from the silica-rich magma that... 1978)。 ま た,瀬 Crを 1979). ほ と pleonaste)か chromite)ま Cr/Cr+Al=0.4〜0.5を 部 に 部 分 は0.33 Grenada島...Contrib. (1975), Chrome Kuroda, , Shiraki, chromite 1965 from (Makaopuhi) Hawaii. Composition...arcs, M. geochemical In The marginal ed.), Australia Gorton, A history Western seas, Coleman,...Chromian indicator. tions. of other in layered chromite of other Cosmochim. layers magmatic Acta
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Hobart 7005, Tasmania, Australia Department of Geology, Australian...University P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600, Australia Abstract. In the Heathcote Greenstone Belt of...Mount Wellington Greenstone Belts in southeastern Australia suggests that the early history of the Lachlan...Crawford et al. 1984) and Tasmania (Varne and Brown 1978) in SE Australia. The geology and petrography...of Heathcote Greenstone Belt in southeastern Australia. b Diagrammatic representation of stratigraphy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Mel~ume, Parkville. Victoria 3052, Australia ‘Geology Department, Australian National Unive~ity... 2600, Australia ‘Geology Department, University of Tasmania, Box 252C GPO. Hobart, Tasmania 700 1. Australia...Australia (Received October 19, 1984; accepted in revised form May 16, 1985) Abstract-Boninites and...Vogel, New Caledonia, Cyprus, Newfoundland and SE Australia have been analysed for Pd. ir. Au, Cu. S and Se...picrites and metaboninites from southeastern Australia (King Island. Heathcote and Howqua). The investigation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Victoria 3052, Australia Abstract. The Howqua Olivine Pyroxenite of eastern Victoria, Australia, intrudes...temperature of crystallization for liquidus olivine and chromite from a highMgO, low-A1203 parent liquid similar...amygdaloidal and all contain microphenocrysts of chromite ; however, primary silicate minerals are never...crystals contain slightly rounded inclusions of chromite. Small (>0.3 ram) anhedral plates of polysynthetically-twinned...phenocrysts, and commonly containing small euhedral chromite grains, constitute the bulk of the remainder of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
consists ofphenocrysts of altered olivine with chromite inclusions and chromian diopside set in a groundmass...alkalic basalts . Cr/Al ratio of the chromite is as high as that of chromite in boninite or magnesian andesite...high‑magnesia d some Cr‑rich analyses and chromite from 1. high‑silica analyses. 2. 3. 4. 5...of andesite (7472603). Average of 9 analyses of chromite from calc-alkali basalt of Guam (Shiraki et al...al., 1977). Average of 4 analyses of chromite from boninite of Chichi-jima (Shiraki and Kuroda, 1977)
 
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