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Fluorite from
Avondale Mine, Mount Lyndhurst station, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyromorphite4 photos of Fluorite associated with Pyromorphite at this locality.
Wulfenite4 photos of Fluorite associated with Wulfenite at this locality.
Minium3 photos of Fluorite associated with Minium at this locality.
Calcite2 photos of Fluorite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Cerussite1 photo of Fluorite associated with Cerussite at this locality.
Phosphohedyphane1 photo of Fluorite associated with Phosphohedyphane at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Avondale Mine, Mount Lyndhurst station, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:48892
Long-form Identifier:1:3:48892:5
GUID (UUID V4):e0ce6c54-73ef-4e70-a515-f7c468467fc3
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
75.5km (46.9 miles) Greenwoods Workings, Ediacara Mine, Ediacaran Fossil Reserve, Beltana, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
76.3km (47.4 miles) Mount Painter No. 7 workings, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
76.4km (47.5 miles) Mount Painter No. 2 workings, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
77.4km (48.1 miles) Mt Gee, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
77.9km (48.4 miles) Mt Gee East Valley, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station) , North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
81.3km (50.5 miles) East Painter Prospect, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
83.5km (51.9 miles) Smiler Greenwood Prospect, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
93.4km (58.0 miles) Billy Springs Mine (Mount Fitton Mine; 23M; Good Luck Mine), Mount Fitton homestead, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
References
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Report (issue)
taken from the Library NN GU 1900 TP CATALOGUE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIAN MINERALS: 1983 by R.J. Noble...Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue of South Australian minerals...(Robert John), 1946—supiic LIBRARY Catalogue of South Australian minerals: 1983. Bibliography. ISBN 0...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423
Book
EXCHANGE V** I ^ is- CATALOGUE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MINERALS, WITH THE MINES AND OTHER LOCALITIES...BRISTOW, : GOVERNMENT PRINTER, NORTH-TERRACE. 1893. CATALOGUE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MINERALS, WITH THE...AUTHORITY: C. E. : BRISTOW, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, NORTH-TERRACE. 1893. r/v'/ -5 EXCHANGE 8 PREFACE... " Ajax, Line and 8 7 ' ' 10 For "Coronet Mine'" Coronet Hill. For ' ' " three miles " after...Remarks on the Geology and Mineralogy of : South Australia, by Thomas Burr, Esq., at one time Deputy SurveyorGeneral
Report (issue)
ILLINOIS LIBRARY i ^ 6^2.09 S ^^ 2 . ) I NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPARTMENT OF MINES. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Introduction, p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject...Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia:...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 (article/letter/editorial)
[Columbia University] at 23:49 05 October 2014 Daybreak Mine, Spokane County, Washington T he naming of minerals...its outstanding classic occurrence at the Daybreak mine near Elk, Washington. Autunite is characterized...most “autunite” specimens that have been found on mine dumps or have resided in collections for decades...some localities, including that from the Daybreak mine described below, dehydrates in such a way that what...1-cm group of autunite aggregates from the Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington; John Lucking specimen
Report (Issue volume)
The geology of South Australia Volume 2 The Phanerozoic Bulletin 54 BULL 054 (Vol 2) Geological Survey...Survey of South Australia Bulletin 54 The geology of South Australia Volume 2 The Phanerozoic Edited...Minister for Mines and Energy © Government of South Australia 1995. This work is copyright. Apart from any...written permission from the Government of South Australia available through the Department for Manufacturing...1995. The geology of South Australia. Vol. 2, The Phanerozoic. South Australia. Geological Survey. Bulletin
Report (issue)
and zinc mines of Phoenixville, the chrome mines south being of New Texas, Lancaster County, the Gap nickel...corundum mines at Unionville, Brinton's quarry south of West Chester, and the French Creek iron mines...The following analysis of "chrome ore" from Wood's mine by Garrett (1852: 45) lies may be taken as an example...is the symbol of Brinton's quarry, three miles south of West Chester. REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY Throughout...injected with pegmatites which are lacking towards the north near Peach Bottom, Penna. The effect of the dynamic
Book
18 Chapter 3: Important Mineral Localities • North America ................................................................................... 23 • South America ................................................................................... 35 Australia ................................................Minerals; Rob Lavinsky, Arkenstone; Ross Lillie, North Star Minerals; Tom Loomis, Dakota Matrix Minerals;...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen is from the Number 20 mine near Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Author’s specimen...Figure 5. A 2-cm uraninite cube from the Cardiff mine, Wdberforce, Ontario, Canada;Canadian Museum of...photo. muth, and arsenic to zircon, tourmaline, fluorite, carbonates, and sulfides; it can decompose into...WestChester County, and from a locality at Richville Station, St. Lawrence County, New York. Uraninite is also...Morris and Passaic counties, New Jersey, and from Avondale, Chester County; from Upland and near Vera Cruz
Report (volume)
OP HARDNESS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz...localities in North Carolina are Brindletown Creek Ford, Burke County; the J. B. Twitty gold placer mine, Rutherford...Cleveland County; and Portis gold mine, Franklin County. In South Carolina diamonds have been found in...County, Horshawmine in Acooche Valley, and Morrow Station in Clayton County; in Alabama, in Lee and Shelby...altered marble. In North Carolina, emeralds have been found at the Emeraldhiddenite mine, Alexander County;
Book (volume)
small amount of MnO in the green variety. P & R mine, Siesholtzville, Berks county. (W. Headden) B light...Montgomery county. 410: Olive-green; Kober's copper mine, Sumneytown, Montgomery county. 418: Dark olive-green...412: Ball's quarry, Newlin, Chester county. 436: Avondale, Delaware county black, broken prisms. ; SiO...from peridotite.(F. Bascom). Some of the Wood's mine picrolite is nothing but a mixture of calcite and...Rose quarry, in Lower Merion, Montgomery county, south of Woodlane. TALC. 484. The so-called indurated
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........................... A visit to an amber mine in East Prussia. By Miss Gertrude Schmidt ........In due time. Ten mineral collectors hiked to a mine One fell down a shaft then there were nine. Extensive...lead mines on the Alston Moor and the newly opened mine at Nenthead and Nentbury. I was able to persuade...before. Here we met an old miner who told me about a mine which had been opened in the hope of finding a deposit...call on my friend, the manager of the place. The mine was worked for lead and witherite. I had been exchanging
Journal (issue)
and was carried by its mad waters several miles south, where his ark was stranded on a rift of Oneida...high ground, which allowed a good view both north and south. Back of him were jagged peaks of soilless...soilless and verdure less rocks; to the south was the shore of a very muddy ocean, with salt marshes and lagoons...gradual rising of the entire coast and mountain ranges, and of the sea floor; also a correspond ing extension...a good view of the country to the north, west and east; to the south was a deep bay covering the greater
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occur with rhodonite in ore of the Betts manganese mine at Plainfield, Massachusetts. Exceptional garnet...at several localities in Figure 2. A classic Avondale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, spessartine specimen...dominant in crystals from Leiper’s quarries in Avondale and Springfield and at Upland, but that the exceptional...at the Rutherford mine, and a 96-carat faceted red-orange stone from the same mine is in the American...this mine as well. Large spessartine crystals are reported from dumps of the Champion mica mine, also
Book (edition)
gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain a United...Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite 9. 5. Apatite B). interesting to note that...PHENACITE SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE...object to pass light is known as diaphaneity, ranges from transparency through translucency to GEM...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose
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corundum prospect in the Sacaton Mountains, 10 miles north of Casa Grande (Pinal Co.), Ariz. The corundum deposit...Diamonds is the only genuine diamond crater in North America. It is a tourist attraction and opened year...known as the first locality for this mineral in North America, the discovery having been made public about...about in the center of Section 11, T17S, R H E , Mount Diablo Meridian, Calif., in southeastern San Benito...the Yellow Jacket mine on Bear Creek in northern San Juan County, Colorado. The mine was in a rather remote
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........................................... 82 South Africa ...... ... ................................Russian Federation 0 11,800 172,900 218,300 South Africa 0 96...J.00 I -l-L600 192,900 Brazil...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...OECD (2012) In 2010, production of uraniurn in North An1erica represented about 21% of the worldwide...producer, at around 9,775 tU, and was the dominant North American producer. The MacArthur River 1nine, Saskatchewan
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Brunncr, traces of silver occur in Berks countv, at North Reading, in Oley township, and on Cushion Mt. 2... COPPER. found on Bingham's farm, three miles north- Monterey Springs, Adams count}*. SULPHUR, 3...sulphur were found by me, several Ueberroth zine mine, Priedensville, Lehigh Co., years ago, at the ...Kaston and one mile north of Phillipsburg, N. J. at Siesholtzville, at Kinzi mine, Stony creek, 1 Refers...pieces in the Doughty mine, a few At upper layer of the limestone miles south of Sunbury, in Northumber-
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By Edward Cahen THE RADIO-ACTIVE MINERALS OF AUSTRALIA , By M. Mawby .- 'I~~ ~HE MAGAZINE FOR .COLLBC~-0~...of the Association. M. Mawby of Broken Hill, Australia, has also been introduced to the readers of Roc1ts...an article on radio-active minerals found in Australia. Mr. Hawby is an Honorary Vice-President. We are.................................... 9 Blue-John Fluorite ........................................................ 16-17 The Radio-Active Nfinerals of Australia .............................................
Journal (issue)
Good rounded xis. on m ixed ore. 2 x 1 ½. . . FLUORITE, Devonshire. OCTAHEORAL green xis. w . coating...Chalky masses w. W illemite, etc. 3 x 2 x 1 ½ . FLUORITE, France. Group of blue etched xis. w. drusy Quartz...x 1 x ½ .•.• .. •. •. 7 .50 COBALTITE, Columbus Mine, Cobalt, Ontario. Bright loose xis. about 3/ 16"...Mrs. C. W . Lockerbie, Sect'y-Treas. 223 West 9th South Street Salt Lake City 4, Utah We Want The Report...~ttache William 0. Vanderburg, Pretoria, Union of South Africa, whose full and complete reports form the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Granites from the Lachlan Fold Belt, Southeastern Australia P. L. KING1∗, A. J. R. WHITE2, B. W. CHAPPELL1...AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, CANBERRA, A.C.T. 0200, AUSTRALIA 2 VIEPS, DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES, MELBOURNE...MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY, PARKVILLE, VIC. 3052, AUSTRALIA RECEIVED APRIL 22, 1996 ACCEPTED OCTOBER 9, 1996 ...A-type granite; aluminous A-type; peralkaline; Australia ∗Corresponding author. Present address: Department...from the Lachlan Fold Belt (LFB) of southeastern Australia that have previously been defined as ‘A-type’
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JanuarylFebmary 1993 21 well-known minerals, including fluorite, galena, gold, halite, spinel, analcime, leucite... ROCKS & MINERALS Figure 3: Almandine, 3 cm. Avondale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. John Medici specimen...manganese minerals from the Tachgagalt manganese mine, Morocco (Gaudefroy et al., 1969). The minerals...mineralogical species definitions. Hardness of garnet ranges from about 6.5 to 7.5, depending on the chemical...garnets The most outstandfng rhodolltes come from North Carolina, and from Africa’s new treasure chest,
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along the line of the Reading Railroad, and to the north of the latter was high ground chiefly of gneiss... In the mica schists of the tunnel in the Park north of Girard Avenue, and also in a quarry on Girard...especially near Park Station, Schuylkill Valley Railroad. In a quarry south of the Station, and west of the...end of the quarry. In the gneiss at the extremie south end of this quarry was a bed of orthoclase in which...chalcopyrite, bornite, malachite, chrysocolla, apatite, fluorite. On Frankford Creek, above this quarry, there
Report (volume)
........................................... 60 North Castle............................................ Quartz dike cutting pegmatite at Howe quarry, South Glastonbury, Conn.................. VIII. Preliminary... It is slightly translucent to transparent and ranges in color from emeraldgreen or blue-green to pink...as low as 50 cents person. Hauling by team from mine to mill or shipping point in most of the feldspar...This superiority in position makes wagon hauls from mine to shipping point of 6 or 8 miles permissible in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of "Mineral collecting in the vicinity of Lead, South Dakota." The speaker had gained considerable intimate...in the Homestake Gold Mine. He described this property, and aiso the Tungsten Mine at Lee, in the Speaking...ton. Summarizing the minerals of the Homestake mine, Mr' Selchow cited cummingtonite as the predominating...pyrrhotite and pyrite in stringers, and calcite and fluorite in veins throughout the ore body' Siderite is...chabazite (pharcolite) from the hiddenite locality in North Carolina. Mr. Morton described the anhydrite from
 
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