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Apatite from
Unnamed Pegmatite, Dorchap Dyke Swarm, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia


Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Polarised-light microscopy
SEM-EDS
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Unnamed Pegmatite, Dorchap Dyke Swarm, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:639782
Long-form Identifier:1:3:639782:1
GUID (UUID V4):5293ec96-e009-4ac5-92de-0176ce0b485c
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘProprietary Tin Mine, Dorchap dyke swarm, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘBlue Jacket Tin Mine (Blue Jacket Reef), Dorchap Dyke Swarm, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia
3.6km (2.2 miles) ⓘUnited Brothers mine, Sunnyside goldfield, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia
5.1km (3.1 miles) ⓘMaude and Yellow Girl Mine, Glen Wills goldfield, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia
44.9km (27.9 miles) ⓘThe Sugarloaf, Deddick Valley, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Julie Newnham 10 Heyington Close, Croydon Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile (03)...New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 3, Number 2 December 1997...Feature Articles: The Coolgardie pegmatite field, Western Australia Mark I. Jacobson ............................. 103 Dr Bill Birch M11se11111 of Victoria Mr RaJph Bottrill Dept of l11dmtry. Safety &...associated with ironstones in the Olary region, South Australia P.M. Ashley, B.G. Lottermoser, K.M. Scott ...
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meurigite-Na is the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Nevada, where it occurs as radial sprays of cream-colored...approximate order from early to late) quartz, barite, apatite-(CaF), goethite, rockbridgeite, cacoxenite, alunite...South Australia, Australia, Lake Boga quarry and probably Rixon’s Sandstone quarry in Victoria, Australia...Australia, and at an unnamed pegmatite prospect near Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The streak is white...2003 at the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Nevada. The sprays of yellow to cream fibers
Journal (issue)
................................. 2 Himalaya pegmatite,...................................................................................... 2 Unnamed pegmatite occurrence, Volcan Mountains ....................................... 3 Brown Derby no. 1 pegmatite ............................................................................... 3 Ridgefield pegmatite,............................................................................... 3 Strickland pegmatite, ............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
America has produced some of the world’s finest apatite specimens, and there are many wellknown localities...best-known specimen from anywhere is the “Roebling apatite” from the Pulsifer quarry in Auburn, Maine. Formerly...The gemmy, intense purple apatites from this pegmatite mine have made Pulsifer the premier locality for...faceted, they produce some of the most sought apatite gemstones (see Mauthner and Ottaway 2015, this...County, Massachusetts. Rather than a granite pegmatite, the geological environment in which this specimen
Report (issue)
studies in 1811, during A.G. Werner's time at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony (Germany). From 1826...miners. He was also the gemstone inspector for the mining authority. Breithaupt's legacy is 500 publications...descriptions. T he above is a postcard of the School of Mining in Feiberg, Saxony printed for the 1991 Breithaupt...World-Class Beryl Guanghua Liu Page 76 Gem Beryl in Australia Dermot Henry Page 78 Beryl from Southern Africa...William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster, pegmatite specialists from the University of New Orleans
Book
Strontian crandallite from the Alto Benedeto pegmatite, Parai'ba, Brazil (by J.P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto)...6:180-183 AL YES, JEANETE --with J. P. Cassedanne: Apatite and muscovite from the Ze Pinto prospect, Minas...21:409-412 --with J. P. Cassedanne: The Jaguara~u pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil 25:165-170 9 AUTHOR/TITLE...23:209-225. 23:228 Al 'JAJ\ABO~OINA The Anjanabonoina pegmatite. Madagascar (by W. E. Wilson) 20:191-200 A.'\...[Arizona] (by W. E. Wilson) 2:252-258 APATITE The discovery of apatite on the Lievre River, Quebec (by D
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e r a lo j g ic a l Volume Eight/Number Two PEGMATITE ISSUE #1 p u b lis h e r ls * h n Q n i. ‱ ;...83 by R. Lasmanis The Clear Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas............................. 131 HP¼ cover: the roebling apatite H (actually fluorapatite), from the Pulsifer quarry... Iores K IO i DITOR Here it is: our first Pegmatite Issue! Actually this accumulation is a happy accident;...our file of articles I realized we had enough pegmatite-related papers to fill an issue. One advantage
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Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England...but Espenshade (1954) identifies it as a short unnamed inclined adit accompanied by a small dump about...RiverRoanoke River manganese and iron mining district. Mining for iron ore began during the Revolutionary...period and extended into the 1880’s. Manganese mining began in 1868 and continued intermittently until...ore in 1885 and 700 tons in 1893 (Watson, 1907). Mining had apparently ceased at the locality by 1910 when
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Mines and Minerals of the California Pegmatite Province Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University]...of the past century, the Southern California pegmatite province has been the source of some of the world’s...spodumene now known as kunzite. Since the beginning of mining in the late nineteenth century, production from...of the gem and specimen market. High points of mining activity occurred during the first decade of the...laboratory management. He is also a partner in the UK Mining Ventures specimen recovery project at the Rogerley
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those of the familiar localities in Clinton to the east and Penfield and Walworth to the west. Cavities...throughout the Wausau complex. I n the massive pegmatite, it commonly forms brown prismatic crystals surrounded...Texas 77479. Recent quarrying at the Little Patsy pegmatite has led to the discovery of fluocerite-(Ce), (Ce...(Ce,La)F . The Little Patsy quarry pegmatite is a well-zoned, vertical pipelike body with a circular...Chalet Place, Huber Heights, Ohio 45424. The pegmatite district of central Connecticut, commonly referred
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demonstrations. The accepted abstracts follow. APATITE AND MONAZITE REPLACEMENT REACTIONS: INSIGHTS INTO...the trace-element level) chemistry (e.g., apatite-apatite). However different in form, the driving force...Llallagua tin deposit, a series of monazite and apatite replacement experiments were conducted. Fluid-mineral...bringing new insights to already well-described apatite and monazite replacement phenomena observed in...dissolution-precipitation mechanism is responsible for apatite alteration (see fig.). The same ex- Back-scattered
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Theodore Johnson of East Hampton submitted several samples from an unnamed pegmatite feldspar mine in Middleton...Cookeite, Harvard quarry, Greenwood, Maine. Maine Mt. Mica Albite Mr. Duane Leavitt of Buckfield has found...crystals from a late stage replacement assem­ blage at Mt. Mica in Paris. The albites are rhombic tabu­ lar...and reveal their relationship to other chlorites. Mt. Mica and the Harvard quarry in Greenwood both have...this mineral. Lord Hill in Stoneham and Mount Apatite in Auburn have both produced clusters Bertrandite
Book (volume)
been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining history. Among his specialties may be mentioned...Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to...a story to tell concerning Maine's minerals and mining history. The ranks of invited contributors have...California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite district in North America. Its wealth of tourmalines...scientific study, mining, and collecting ventures. While reading the history of mining can be fascinating
Report (issue)
Pegmatite Investigations 1942-1945 Black Hills, South Dakota By LINCOLN R. PAGE and OTHERS GEOLOGICAL..._______________________ Mining, preparation, and uses of mica. _____________ Mining.___________________________________... VI Descriptions of mines and prospects Continued Dyke Lode.________-___-______________--------Earl Lo...pocket] PLATE 1. Index map showing locations of pegmatite mines and prospects. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9....Dakota. Geologic map and sections Beecher Lode pegmatite, Ouster County, South Dakota. Geologic map and
Journal (issue)
Golden Topaz, 3.5 inches, from Katlang, Mardan District, Pakistan; Freilich Collection. OPENING SPREAD:...examining a cool, colorful, symmetrical crystal of apatite that lay among the other specimens (some of which...acquired his first rare book (an early German work on mining laws . . . incomprehensible as to subject matter...Stan Tourmaline) into a general San Diego County pegmatite collectic of nearly 200 superb specimens. Fine...garnets stood side-by-side with rare and exotic pegmatite specie It was widely acclaimed as the finest such
Book
Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Pimentel er al., 2009). SWITZERLAND Maderanertal east of Arnsteg, Uri. In the world of classic Swiss Alpine...Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing the ilmenite...ilmenite crystals to 7 cm in pale brown nepheline/apatite matrix were found in the nearby Vislmevye Moore...of rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]. Beginning
Report (issue)
OF THS FUJKTKSS SPRUCE PIHB DISTRICT, ISOlCffl CABOLIHA by Donald A* Brobst This report la praliminary...Geologic map of the Plumtree area, Spruce Pine district, Forth Carolina.................................Photomicrographs of 0 -Q-B gneiss from *K)Q feet east of the function of !7. S. route 192 and tho Pluwtree...Figure 1. Index map of Plumtree area, Spruce Pine district, North Carolina .................................. 42 ?. Muscovite in the vail zone of the pegmatite in tha Meadow mine, Avery Co. ...............
Report (issue)
Helpful suggestions on field occurrences and pegmatite mineralogy were received horn Dr. James J. Norton...Professor Edwin H . Oshier, Head of the Department of Mining Engineering, made the photographs included in this...orthorhombic ooi2, apatite) (120, ferberite) 110 tetragonal, monoclinic (1010, apatite) (130, columbite)...calcite) (102, ferberite) (201, augelite) (1011, apatite) (ill, augelite) hhl, tetragonal (131, columbite)...Hydroxylapatite Saleeite Stewartite Carbonate-apatite Abemathyite Viviani le Metatorbemite Pyromorphite
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Houston, Texas Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England... Levinson in Calgary and Dr. E. H. Nickel in Australia summed up the way many of us felt about Mike....doubt, be much silver. Subsequently a well-equipped mining expedition was dispatched to the site, but after...captain Juan de Villarroel, who was involved in mining at Porco about 75 km away. He had been chasing...Cotamito and a man named Santandia, and they began mining the rich surface ores. Production continued through
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Geology & Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd Street, Room 710 SEC, Norman, Oklahoma 73019...the temperatures recorded by feldspars in the pegmatite that surrounds the miarolitic pockets, then the...compositions. Keywords: miarolitic, granitic pegmatite, modal analysis, bulk composition, alkali feldspars...mine are located within the Ramona pegmatite district, ~7.5 km east of Ramona, San Diego County, California...The Main dike contains the thickest section of pegmatite, 1026 the canadian mineralogist up to ~2.5
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Arizona, Garnet Ledge in Alaska, and localities in Australia and Europe, particularly in Spain and in the UK...most important and evocative artifact of early mining in the American West.” Hardcover, sewn binding...chapter in American mining history. Over 750 illustrations, including many underground mining scenes showing...rare and varied antique candleholders from famous mining areas such as Bisbee, Tombstone, Cripple Creek...recognizing fakes. This book will be the new “bible” for mining artifact collectors, and the standard reference
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Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England...of the private mineral-collecting boom hitting Australia at the time. He was soon able to build a fine...of which he sold to the then National Museum of Victoria in 1974. One of Brian’s greatest loves was gold...had become a popular recreational pastime in Australia and many new nuggets were being found. Brian’s...central Victoria, which became known as the “Pride of Australia.” Trying to find a buyer in Australia for
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: ‱ The geology of Double Rock pegmatite ‱ The Kemble family, long-term Franklin mineral...INFORMATION Anyone interested in the minerals, mines, or mining history of the Franklin-Ogdensburg, New Jersey...Photos From the Field 11 Geology of Double Rock Pegmatite From the Buckwheat Open Cut, Richard A.Volkert...Articles related to the minerals or mines of this district are welcome for Publication in The Picking Table...Dump and Passaic and Noble Pits, Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ. SUNDAY, MAY 22,2005 9:00
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SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2019 Articles The Golconda District, Minas Gerais, Brazil ..........................Britain, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Ceylon, Australia (including Tasmania), China, South Africa, Namibia...“German Silver: An Historical Perspective on Silver Mining in Germany” (1986) and “Famous Mineral Localities:...antiquarian to modern mineral books and mineral or mining-related artifacts. A part of their collection was...AustroHungarian Epoch of mining history. Consequently mineralogy, historical books, art and mining are reflected
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Roland Bouhelier in 1973 from the "Bouhelier pegmatite", and shortly thereafter acquired by the Canadian...Organic compounds 491 Partially studied and unnamed MSH minerals 494 Gemstones 514 Pseudomorphs...an accumulated repository of partially studied (unnamed) minerals. This is likely to continue for many...case of the island of Laven in the Langesundfjord District of Norway. Interestingly, and in contrast to its...and partially studied and unnamed (UK) minerals. For the unresolved unnamed minerals, all available technical
 
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