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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Comments:Porphyry, greisen & Mg-skarn
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:64418
Long-form Identifier:1:3:64418:7
GUID (UUID V4):17c5ebe4-bcf1-4864-bb9d-ad5842f1a6c5
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
6.3km (3.9 miles) Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
12.4km (7.7 miles) Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
23.3km (14.5 miles) Hellyer-Que River Mines, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
25.9km (16.1 miles) Savage River Mines, Corinna-Savage River district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
27.3km (17.0 miles) Kara Mines, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia
34.3km (21.3 miles) Anio Creek prospect, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
39.1km (24.3 miles) Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
39.7km (24.6 miles) Murchison Gorge, Tullah, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
41.0km (25.5 miles) Renison Bell Mine (Renison Mine), North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
42.7km (26.6 miles) Stormont mine, 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY BISCHOFF TIN No. 3 1922.. OF THE DEPOSITS, MOUNT TASMANIA. J. G. WESTON-DUNN...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..."Geology of Tasmania," •888. a S•. I--I. Wintie, "Stanniferous Deposits of Tasmania, Mount Bischoff," Trans
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 (article/letter/editorial)
fluid activity at the Mount Bischoff Sn-deposit , north-west Tasmania, Australia J.H. WRIGHT, Mt Kersen...Western Australia T.A.P. KWAK, Department of Geology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia 3083 Abstract...Devonian (360 Ma) tin deposit at Mt Bischoff, north-west Tasmania, formed from the interaction of unusual...increasing degrees of greisenization: ‘sericite’ muscovite + quartz tourmaline fluorite, topaz + quartz 2...rock-flour and later tourmaline alteration. The Mt Bischoff greisen system is possibly part of a ‘porphyry
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)
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
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
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...year. *Continued on p. 359 COVER: FLUORITE on muscovite, 14 cm, from Nagar, Hunza Valley, Northern Areas... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ 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)
551-574 Tin-Bearing Greisensof Mount Bischoff,NorthwesternTasmania,Australia J. H. WRIGHT* AND T. A. P. KWAK...TrobeUniversity,Bundoora,Victoria3083, Australia Abstract The large Mount Bischofftin depositoccurswithin an...cycles. Introduction THE Mount Bischofftin depositin northwesternTasmania,Australia(long 145ø31'16"E, lat...Mining, 44 St. GeorgesTerrace, Perth, Western Australia. 0361-0128/89/922/551-24 $3.00 greisen mineral...examplessuchasthis, typicalgreisenmineralssuchas topaz, Li muscovite,tourmaline, fluorite, etc., are found as direct
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A Reexaminationof the Mount BischoffCassiteriteSulfide Skarn, Western Tasmania S.W. H^LLEY*^ND JOHNL...Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200,Australia Abstract The MountBischoff tin depositoccursin...a possiblevolcanogenic exhalativeorigin for the Mount westernTasmania, the otherdeposits beingRenisonBell...Most mineralizationat Mount in westernTasmania hasbeenaccepted by mostworkers Bischoff occurred asreplacement...mineralization alsooccurred withincassiteriteites. At Mount Bischoff fluid flow is considered to have been polymetalhc
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
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)
South Africa. 24. Belgian Congo. 25. Nigeria. Australia. •6. Stanthorpe, Queensland. 27. Heberton, Queensland...N. S. W. 3o. Mr. Bischoff, Tasmania. 3•. Blue Tier, Tasmania. 32. Heemskirk, Tasmania. x3. Sumatra. ...in Cornwall and Bolivia, and to a lessextent in Tasmania and the Transvaal. As this paper is concernedonly...(Malay States) ................ 54,6oo 55,265 Australia .............................. Banca ...........DISTRICTS OF THE WORLD. 4 3 Principal Intrusive. District. II. Associated Dikes. 6 5 InvadedRocks.
Book
CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS LIPOW Si. ao sé ... 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
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...deposits. Pre-Middle Devonian rocks of western Tasmania differ, for most part, from those in the northeast
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...Sequence • Central Belt, granite I HELLYER RIVER MINE economicdepositsoccurin the Mt. ReadVolcanics ...ments(Williams,1978).At thetimeof volcanism (Late Cambrian)Tasmania probablyoccupiedpartof a wide continentalmarginwith
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)
and an orogenic setting (Blue Tier Batholith, Tasmania) reveals a number of genetically important similarities...documented orogenic tin district, the Blue Tier Batholith of eastern Tasmania (e. g. Groves~ 1972a; Groves...with that in a well documented anorogenic tin district, the Bushveld Complex (e. g. Hunter and Lenthall...post-kinematic composite batholiths that occur in Tasmania at the southern end of the Tasman orogenic belt...there are relatively small, mappable units of muscovite- and biotite-bearing granites that are the last
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...lepidomelane, and silver-white to tombac-brown muscovite, with the phosphates apatite, monazite, and xenotime...zone is formed of white albite, yellowish-white muscovite, bluish-black tourmaline, and brown tnanganese-garnet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Renison Bell, Western Tasmania D. J. PATTERSON,* GeologyDepartment, Universityof Tasmania,G.P.¸. 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
Report (issue)
earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...earth-science and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...- - - - - - - - 16 9. Proportions of total world mine production of tin accounted for by countries having...Countries having greater than 2,000 metric tons of tin mine production in any one of the selected years 1940-8
 
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