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Muscovite from
Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Station (farming)
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Dravite11 photos of Muscovite associated with Dravite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:808727
Long-form Identifier:1:3:808727:0
GUID (UUID V4):d03165fa-8c2c-4244-ba1c-5f33c2427a9b
Localities for Muscovite in this Region
April pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Arthur River pegmatites, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Bismuth Hill (The Cairn), Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Cairn Mining Centre, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Williamson's Beryl Mine, Cairn Mining Centre, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Camel Hill pegmatites, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Deposit B mica pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Deposit C mica pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Deposit D mica pegmatite (Yinnietharra Mica; Commonwealth Mica; Government Mica), Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Kempton Brothers Beryl Mine, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
MC 43H mica pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Mica King East pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Mica King pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Mica King South pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Mineral Claim 790 Pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Morrisey Hill, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Mortimer Hills uranium bearing pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nardoo Creek 1, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nardoo Hill (Beryl Hill), Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nardoo Well pegmatites, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
New Well pegmatites, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
North Morrissey Hill pegmatite group, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Wabli Creek pegmatites, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
12.3km (7.6 miles) Mica King South pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
12.5km (7.8 miles) Mica King East pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
12.7km (7.9 miles) Mica King pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
13.0km (8.1 miles) Morrisey Hill, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
14.4km (8.9 miles) North Morrissey Hill pegmatite group, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
15.5km (9.6 miles) Mortimer Hills uranium bearing pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
16.2km (10.0 miles) Deposit B mica pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
18.4km (11.5 miles) Bismuth Hill (The Cairn), Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
18.4km (11.5 miles) Nardoo Well pegmatites, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
18.7km (11.6 miles) Nardoo Creek 1, Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
MINES. N1S K l t A 1, RESOURCES OF ’CTESTERN AUSTRALIA. BULLETIN KO. 2. BY R. S. MATHESON BSc. GEOLOGICAL...Report knowledgmeiits ... ... ncralogy ... ... ... Muscovite ... ... Phlogopite ... ... Biotitr ... ... Lepidolite...67 (i!) PLANS. Phte. il a I. Map of TTesterii Australia, hhov i q g 1,ocahties of P r t n c i ~ t ~ Jiii.... illineralogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Muscovite ............ Phlogopite . . . . . . . . . . ....inthiitries, there has been a n increasing demand in Australia f o r clear ;incl coinmercial clear sheet mica
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(weathered), kaolinite, gibbsite, biotite, chlorite, muscovite, 429 Groverake mine, Rookhope, Weardale, Durham...Hill, fluorite, 4Ol Hazlehead quarry, Penistone, muscovite, I76 Hepworth Iron Co. quarry, Hazlehead, Penistone...WALES(Cymru) Dorothea slate quarry, Nantlle, muscovite, chlorite, 158 Caernarvon, INDEX SCOTLAND Zircon...ignimbrites, rhyolites, 62 I Rehiran, Inverness-shire, biotite (weathered), 448 Sgeir nan Sgarbh, South...Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh, clinohumite, 727 Western Deccan Bhor Ghat, Syhadree Mrs. : Khandala Ghat
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hornblende, biotite, pyroxene, almandine, 8o7 Amethyst, Western Deccan, India, 658 Amphibole, chromian, Orissa...South Wales, anal., opt., 6oi Aphthitalite, Western Australia, 467 Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland, staurolite...goM mine, Coodardy, Murchison gold fields, Western Australia, W- and Sb-substituted rutile, 47o BIGGAR(G...8o7; Cornwall and Inverness-shire, weathering, 4z9, 448; Inverness-shire, M6ssbauer study, anal., 448;...calc-alkaline intrusive rocks, 25t Biphosphammite, Western Australia, 467, 889 Birnessite, Mexico, paragenesis;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Langesund, helvine, 627 Varkleivneset, Sogn, muscovite (ferrian), 5~3 Sweden (Sverige) Ldngban, helvine...Yxsjoberg, Vdstmanland, danalite, 627 Inverness-shire Skye, arfvedsonite, ferrorichterite, 89I Portree...hornblende, 3o8 Bulgaria Chiprovtsi ore deposit, western Stara-Planina mtns., argentian mercurian tetrahedrite...Terlano, Bolzano, apjohnite, 599 Val Neva, Albenga, Western Liguria, volborthite, 794 Vesuvius, sahlite, leucite...Ishikawa-gun, Fukushima Prefecture, muscovite, 42I Bessi, Shikoku, muscovite-3T, 2o2 Chichibu mine, Saitama
Report (issue)
22 TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J. M. Fetherston TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA FRONTISPIECE:...SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 22 TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J. M. Fetherston...Limerick DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tim Griffin REFERENCE The recommended reference...FETHERSTON, J. M., 2004, Tantalum in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Resources Bulletin 22, 162p. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication entry Fetherston, John
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2017 MICA Mica species recorded in Western Australia include muscovite (potassium mica) , lepidolite (lithium...mica). Of these muscovite alone is in demand as clear mica sheet. Biotite and muscovite both have use,...unprofitable the exploitation of even the highest grade Western Australian sheet mica except for the period of...emergency during the Second World War. Marketing in Australia was controlled by the Commonwealth Mica Pool until...grades of muscovite mica occur in pegmatites at a number of localities in Western Australia associated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
monoelinic BiV04, a new mineral from Yinnietharra, Western Australia P. J. B R I D G E AND M. W. P R Y C...Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia SUMMARY. Monoclinic BiVO~, well known as a...high-temperature compound, has been found as a mineral at Yinnietharra and subsequently in specimens from five further...definitive data as could be obtained from the meagre Yinnietharra material were proposed as those of a new mineral...Pyramid Hill (24 ~ 42' S., I 15 ~ 5 I' E.) on Yinnietharra Station and 82o km north of Perth. The small
Journal (issue)
Appleman The Dravite Crystal Bonanza of Yinnietharra, Western A u s tra lia ............................of the century the pegmatite “sheet” of south­ western Maine produced fine gem minerals at many separate...lepidolite, accom­ panied by small amounts of albite, muscovite and cookeite. The quartz crystals ranged up to...interior but have an epitaxial coating of greenish muscovite 1 mm thick, separated by a sharp boundary. Orthoclase...right) Lepidolite crystal rimmed by epitaxial muscovite, with apatite. The specimen is 5 cm tall. Smithsonian
Journal (issue)
t� Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B. and Elliott, P. 2(2):57-70 The minerals...Isa District, Queensland P<1rt 1 - The Great Australia Mine. Day, B. and . Beyer, B. 1(1):23-28 Part...Southern Africa. Cairncross, B. 2(1):32W; 2(2): 79SOW Western North America. Thomssen, R. 2(2):78W AUTHORS:...2(1):25-27 Worner, H.K. 2(1):28 LOCALITIES: Australia: New South Wales: 18 Level, Zinc Corporation Mine...Wheal Jane, Cornwall 1(1):30W Queensland: Great Australia Mine 1(1):23-28 Mary Kathleen, Mt Isa district
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
53 AHMED (Z.) and AHMED (S.), Garnets from the Upper Swat Hornblendic Group. Part I, Garnets from gneisses...anal., opt., 53; Sri Lanka, anal., 541 ; Central Australia, anal., 589 'Alum', Valcano, Italy, anal., is...Ishikawa-gun, Fukttshirna prefecture, Japan, muscovite, 42i Ardnamurchan Centre 111 Complex, clinopyroxene...tetrahedrite from the Chiprovtsi ore deposit, western Stara-Planina mtns., Bulgaria, 233 ATKtN (D.),...52I Ceylon, see Sri Lanka, 54I Ceylonite, Western Australia, anal., 181; Namaqualand, anal., paragenesis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Brazil, and right: dravite, 12 cm, Yinnietharra, Western Australia; (b) foitite, 11 cm, Garnet Ledge dike...quartz (gray), Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, John Slack photo; (b) transmitted plane-polarized...occurrence of dravite (see table) at Yinnietharra, Western Australia (Bridge, Daniels, and Pryce 1977),...belt. The first melting reaction occurs among muscovite, albite (Na-plagioclase feldspar), quartz, and...including newly formed glass (Gl) and relict muscovite (Ms), biotite (Bt), quartz (Qtz), Mn-rich garnet
Report (issue)
calcite, dolomite, epidote, microcline, albite, muscovite, °uorite, titanite. Distribution: Found around...Brazil. Large crystals from Yinnietharra, 800 km north of Perth, Western Australia. At Osarara, Narok district
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE ARC,HAEAN ,ROCKS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Downloaded by [JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY] at 15:37 24 August 2017...GREEN Box 593, P.O. Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia Estimating the 3Jges of rocks has always been...territories was the vast PreCambrian Shield of Western Australia. Here wide areas of rocks were believed to...complexes with a satisfactory exactitude. In Western Australia this is becoming a masterpiece of Geology...astounding results have been achieved. As stated, the Western Australian PreCambrian shield is vast. Now it is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, Australia The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University, Australia c Department...Applied Geology, Curtin University, Australia d Lithium Australia, Australia b A R T I C L E I N F O A B...particle compositions which are made up of Li muscovite, trilithionite and polylithionite grains. The...required to breakup and expose fine grains of Li muscovite, polylithionite, and trilithionite, for further...yet to be developed on a commercial scale in Australia. To facilitate further process development, a
Catalog/List
Quartz with odd smaller Apatite crystals and Muscovite mica. 2ixlixl". £13. 5. APATITE. Wilberforce,... £22. MOLYBDENITE. Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia. Rich, bright, metallic lead grey sheaves of platy...(Plumbian Betafite). l;iilliYinnietharra, Vi. _ustralia. Pure, Vitreous, light 0row:"...£3.50. TOUR!' LII:B var ~--i DL'VITE. Yinnietharra, l~. australia. Bright, d3rk brown, ';,,2.1. formed...in size, scattel~d ~nd partially embedded in Muscovite Mica Schist. 3X2xlt". £4.50. URh10CTI,CITE. ?c
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Centre, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin...Curtin University, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia Abstract 6 The use of detrital rutile as an indicator of...trace element chemistry, mineral exploration, Western Australia, 30 principal component analysis, hierarchical...as many different ore types as possible in Western Australia including 139 from known Au, Au-Cu, lamprophyre...were selected primarily from the University of Western Aus- 141 tralia’s (UWA’s) museum archives (http://www
Report (edition)
maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response...formal inception of the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) in 1896. In this second joint publication
Report (edition)
Stocklmayer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black... MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Stocklmayer Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rick Rogerson REFERENCE The recommended reference...VC 2013, Gemstones of Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin
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
Report (issue)
MILES, D.Sc. F.C.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O F WESTERN AUSTRALIA, - AND DOROTHY CARROLL, PLD., P.I.C. GOVERNMENT... - WESTERN - AUSTRALIA. P A ~ T M E N TOF MINES. . MINERAL RESOURCES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA BULLETIN... F.G.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O F W E S T E R N AUSTRALIA, AND AND GOVERNMENT CHEMICAL LABORATORIES.... The production of tantalum ores has been one of Western Australia’s contributions to the war effort and...considered a comprehensive reference book f o r the Western Australian 1-esources of tantalnm and niobium.
Catalog/List
£4.5Op 5. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill, N.S. Wales, Australia. Small sharp clear sparkling crystals co,eIl a...on dolomite matrix. 2)(1tx1t,", £4.50p . 51. MUSCOVITE. Governador Valaderas, Minas 8erais, 8razil. Fine...t" in size thickly intergrown on crystalline muscovite matrix. 3x3x2". £5.50p 62. NEPHELINE. Monte Somma...SCHOLZITE. Reaphook Hill, Flinders Range, S. Australia. Creamy-white sharp needly crystals to t" in length...x1t", £11.00 TOURMALINE variety DRAVITE. Yinnietharra, W. Australia. Select lustrous browm sharp dOUbly terminated
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 12 THE TIN DEPOSITS OF ~ E S T E...Minister for Mines 77793-1 i National Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 7617 2 11 PREFACE...Although small by Australian and World standards, Western Australia’s tin deposits have yielded concentrates...interested in searching for tin deposits in Western Australia. J H Lord 19th June 1978. DIRECTOR iii................. ... ... . . Tin mining in Western Australia .........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and minor {111}, a~= 5.562+ 0.003 A; colorless muscovite; dark red gar~et with the molecular ratio alm...1977: The dravite cr!'~tal Bonanza of Yinnietharra, Western Australia. Mineral, Rec. 8, 109-110. Buerger
Catalog/List
£2.25. 21. CASSITERITE. Elsmore, N.S. Wales, Australia. Specimen A - A very choice, lustrous, deep brownish...2fxl-txlt". 1:3.25. CHRVSOTILE. Dundns, Tasmania; Australia. select, silky, fibrous veinlets running in parallel...CB.OO; DUNDASITE. Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Pale creamy micro crystalised crusts richly encrusting...£4.50. HEULANDITE. Coonabarabran, N.S. Wales, Australia. Lustrous, reddish brown, sharp crystals to 1;-"...Coombing Park Copper Mine, Nr. Carcoar, N.S.Wales, Australia. Rich, deep green, mamillary crust covering dark
Journal (issue)
Affiliated Associations: Genu:nological Association of Australia: Canadian Genu:nological Association: Rhodesian...consisted of minor sericitized plagioclase feldspar, muscovite, quartz and opaque minerals. Samples of mica-rock...noted the presence of considerable muscovite "veining" and fine muscovite aggregates in Chikwanda emerald...would be the Mica Creek Pegmatite near Mt Isa, Australia. Here, a near-vertical pegmatite outcrops in schistose...cm in size together with quartz, feldspar and muscovite. In order to try and explain these field observations
 
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