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Calcite from
Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Porphyry, greisen & Mg-skarn
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:64377
Long-form Identifier:1:3:64377:1
GUID (UUID V4):edff9ce8-10f6-4fab-88db-1f0ca8b3ff4e
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
12.4km (7.7 miles) ⓘMt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
13.9km (8.7 miles) ⓘHellyer River Bridge, Guilford, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
14.2km (8.8 miles) ⓘGuilford, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
25.0km (15.5 miles) ⓘKara No. 1 Pit, Kara Mines, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia
25.9km (16.1 miles) ⓘSavage River Mines, Corinna-Savage River district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
26.2km (16.3 miles) ⓘCoates pit, Campbell Range, Oonah, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
27.3km (17.0 miles) ⓘKara Mines, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia
33.6km (20.9 miles) ⓘMt Lindsay mine (Parsons Hood), Mt Lindsay mineral field, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
34.7km (21.6 miles) ⓘMeunna Road, Flowerdale River, Preolenna, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
38.8km (24.1 miles) ⓘCradle Mountain Link Road, Middlesex Plains, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish 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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY BISCHOFF TIN No. 3 1922.. OF THE DEPOSITS, MOUNT TASMANIA. J. G. WESTON-DUNN......................... Prosopite, pyrrhotite, calcite, (?) fluorite ................... Arsenopyrite...WESTON-DUNN. INTRODUCTION. The tin depositsof Mount Bischoffoffer an unusualopportunity for geologicalstudy...characterof thesetin deposits. The study of the Mount Bischofftin depositswas undertaken at the suggestion...the presentday the main tin-bearing material at Mount Bischoffis a loose,often incoherentpyritic (marcasitic)deposit
Report (issue)
Introduction, p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland...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...north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same district, but it is sometimes difficult or impossible to
Survey Bulletin 73 A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill...Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrt.tas.gov.au ©Copyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved...the publisher in writing. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Bottrill, R
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mines, G.P.O. Box 124B, Hobart, Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract The Clevelandtin-copperdepositcomprises...the Meredith Granite. Introduction THE Cleveland mine, situated at Luina in north- westernTasmania,is...is locatedapproximately15 km to the west of Mr. Bischoff and (35 km to the north of Renison Bell, two...secondlargestproducer of tin concentrates in Australia. Tin occurs as cassiteriteand stannite,and copperas...copperas chalcopyrite. Total productionfrom the mine during the period 1968 to 1979 was :3,940,000 metric
Journal (issue)
F. L. Sutherland & G. Webb Minerals of western Tasmania ................................................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
Journal (issue)
3 19 Alabama Alaska Argentine Republic Asia Australia Austria 21 21 N 25 25 26 28 -. Banka 29...South Australia South Dakota Spain Swaziland ; 145 146 148 148 148 155 158 Sweden Tasmania 160 ... .186 CONTENTS V PAGE Washington Western Australia 187 Wyoming 190 191 203 209 General Bibliography... dikes, or placers of a particular country or district, and in the arrangement of this bibliography the...Geological Survey of Western Australia, Ann. Progr. Rep. Geol. Surv. Western Australia. Perth. Annual Report
Journal (issue)
France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony...Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas...prehnite-filled cavities were everywhere, along with calcite, apophyllite, and stilbite—all of which he found
Book
Ltd., 207 Queen's Quay West, Toronto 1, Canada AUSTRALIA Pergamon Press (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., 19a Boundary...Boundary Street, Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W. 2011, Australia FRANCE Pergamon Press S A R L , 24 rue des Ecoles...continent or, in the case of Australasia, by Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Papua-New Guinea...the deposits are arranged by prov­ inces, in Australia by states, and in Japan by islands. In India,...Philippines... Turkey 2 1 1 4 1 1 5 1 1 2 2 21 Australia 27 Tasmania 13 New Zealand 2 Bougainville.... 1 Fiji
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia andℱ 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 (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Western Australia, Western Australia 6009, Australia 2 Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation...Analysis, University of Western Australia , Western Australia 6009, Australia 1 Abstract Quantitative X‑ray...pegmatites such as the Greenbushes deposit, Western Australia (Partington et al. 1995), Sn-Cu-Pb-Zn skarns such...four localities: two crystals are from the Mount Bischoff cassiterite-sulfide skarn (MB1 and MB2), two...and SC2), two from the greisen zone of the Buriti mine (BM1 and BM2), and one is from the White Lode Sn-mineralized
Book
CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS LIPOW Si. ao sĂ© ... CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia Philip Scalisi David Cook VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold...Classic mineral localities of the world, Asia and Australia. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines and...resources—Asia. 2. Mines and mineral resources—Australia. 3. Mines and mineral resources—Soviet Union
Book
Times, Singapore ; and journals in India and Australia—a course was pursued from South Africa through...through Ceylon, India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. In the period mentioned... some of the minor gold and copper fields of Australia, which may be responsible for more valuable contributions...Introduction CHAPTER I Mink Labotjb 1. Census of mine employees.—2. Socialistic Unionism.—3. Premium on...French company.—10. Tronoh mines.— 11. Batu Gajah district.—12. Gopeng hydraulicking.—13. Pioneer dredges
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hyacinth, as crystals in chlorite from the Howell District, New England, are also in the Melbourne Museum...Wodgina District in Western Australia This is one of the best garnet districts in Australia and is active...today. It is in the Northwest Division of Western Australia and is roughly a circle with a diameter of forty...years old. Wodgina is the premier tantalum district of Australia. The Australian government is now stockpiling...Perth. The garnet localities are at or hear Abydos, Mount Francisco, Stannum, Tabba Tabba and Wodgina itself
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...Geology SINCEthe discoveryof cassiteritenear Mt. Bischoff in 1871 Tasmaniahasbeen an important metal producer...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
81, 1986, pp. 1341-1355 The MurchisonGorge, Tasmania, a PossibleCrossSectionthrough a CambrianMassiveSulfideSystem...Resources, P.O. Box 378, Canberra,A.C.T. 2601, Australia C. J. EASTOE, Departmentof Geosciences, Universityof...Canberra,A.C.T. 2601, Australia Abstract The MurchisonGorge,northeastof Roseberyin Tasmania, is believedto...sericitezone--(a), sericite,quartz,(b), sericite,quartz,calcite,K-feldspar, chlorite,hematite,chalcopyrite, pyrite...chlorite,calcite,hematite,(K-feldspar, albite);chloritezone--chlorite,sericite,albite,calcite, (hematite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
separated from the RMB 1 Simplified map of Galmoy Mine, Ireland showing the major orebodies samples by...thank Arcon Mines for allowing access to the Galmoy Mine. Imperial College London, University College Dublin...arsenic dispersion in acid mine drainage from Mount Bischoff, Western Tasmania A. G. Gault1, D. R. Cooke2...Research (CODES), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 3 Central Science Laboratory...Laboratory, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 4 CLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington
Report (volume)
..................1...................... 48 Australia.................................................and this find has awakened great interest in the district. The demand for authentic information regarding...the writer spent a number of days in the York district, oSchrader, F. C., and Brooks, A. H., Preliminary...search was continued and the first real attempts to mine the tin-bearing gravels were made on Buck Creek...minerals remain. The rock here is found to consist of calcite, fluorite, lithia mica, and quartz, proportioned
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
australianmuseum.net.au 6 College Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia MINERALOGICAL NOirES, No. V. If· By T. HODGE-SJl;IIl'l-I...New South Wales. Cassiterite, Storey's Creek, Tasmania. Purpurite, Euriowie Range, New South Wales. ...525 feet level, South Mine, Broken Hill. The discovery of stolzite in this mine is of particular interest...1 that stolzite was peculiar to the Proprietary Mine, and that it was found only in the upper portion...lodes. Theparagenesis of the mineral in the South Mine appears to be distinct from that of the stolzite
Book (edition)
mining, but that definition has become too narrow. Australia in the 1960s found oil and natural gas and phosphate...September 1968 PREFACE For more than a century Australia has been one of the world’s important mining countries...and base metals that were mined vigorously in Australia. It also touches on iron because Australia’s steel...industry was nursed and nourished by a silver-lead mine. It omits coal, for that industry is and was radically...accurately for any year of the last century the wealth Australia earned from metals or the export of metals. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to D. A. L. t,hc graphite from the Stephanovsky mine. Gold Quartz from the Transvaal. By P. HOLLAND...New South D. A. L. Wales, in Queensland, and i n Tasmania. Genesis of the Plumbiferous Phosphates and Arseniophosphates...has likewise been found in the neighbouring lead mine of Kaltenegg. (2.) Iron, Deweylite f r o m Krau6ach...alteration of copper pyrites. At the same locality, calcite of recent formation has been found. It occurs in...occur wollastonite, epidote, quartz: talc, and calcite. B. H. €3. Beryl from the Ifinger. By M. SCHUSTER
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Renison Bell, Western Tasmania D. J. PATTERSON,* GeologyDepartment, Universityof Tasmania,G.P.ž. Box 252C,... Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia H. OHMOTO, Department of Geosciences, The PennsylvaniaState University...GeologyDepartment, Universityof Tasmania,G.P.O. Box252C, Hobart, Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract Cassiteritemineralizationat...DevelopmentDivision.Mount Isa MinesLimited, Mount Isa,Queensland 4825, Australia. $95 ;394 PATTERSON, OHMOTO,...Limited, a subsidiaryof ConsolidatedGoldfieldsof Australia Limited, at a rate of about 4,800 metric tons
Book
Printing Co Ltd, Tokyo. National Library of Australia Cataloguing in Publication data Perry, Nance Australian...colourbook series). ISBN 0 589 07012 6. I. Gems - Australia - Identification. I. Perry, Ron.joint author....wish to learn about the minerals and gems of Australia. PREFACE gemmologists, mineralogists in a specialised... It will travel throughout the backblocks of Australia and through the museums of our capital cities...Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. The study of gemstones has gained many adherents
Book (edition)
1963, 1969, 1978, 1993 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Blainey, Geoffrey...Mines and mineral resources—Australia—History. 2. Mineral industries—Australia—History. I. Title. 622’.0994...gas on the North-West Shelf, the emergence of Australia as the world’s largest producer of diamonds, pic...the finding of the huge Olym- field in South Australia, the swift revival of gold downs of uranium...March 1993 Preface For more than a century Australia has been one of the world’s important mining countries
 
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