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Calcite from
Sandy Flat Mine, Redbank Area breccia pipes, Roper Gulf Region, Northern Territory, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sandy Flat Mine, Redbank Area breccia pipes, Roper Gulf Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:829341
Long-form Identifier:1:3:829341:1
GUID (UUID V4):98b0281f-9b8f-4d3b-9a8a-3b4a210a9121
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
4.6km (2.9 miles) Bluff Pipe, Redbank Area breccia pipes, Roper Gulf Region, Northern Territory, Australia
6.3km (3.9 miles) Redbank Area breccia pipes, Roper Gulf Region, Northern Territory, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Copper-bearing BrecciaPipes,Redbank, NorthernTerritory,Australia J^NXCEKNUTSON,JOHN FERGUSON, 5,V...La, CO2, and H20 were introducedat the time of breccia-pipeformation. Carbonate and sulfide minerals from...8xaCvalues of the great bulk of the dolomite in the breccia pipes indicate remobilizationof sedimentarycarbonate...sulfide at lower levels. It is concludedthat the breccia pipes formed by explosive release of fluids following...around the pipesand copper mineralization in the Redbank area mainly precipitated from this brine. Introduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Olympic Dam C u - U - A u - A g deposit, South Australia, the Wemecke Mountain breccias, Yukon, the Kiruna...China, and perhaps the Redbank breccia pipes of the Northern Territory, Australia. We designate this class...Olympic Dam deposit in the Stuart Shelf region of South Australia (2000 million metric tons of 1.6% Cu,...Yukon, and the Mount Painter district, South Australia (Coats and Blisset, 1971; Lambert et al., 1982)...rocks. In the Northwest Territory of Canada, in South Australia, in northern and central Sweden, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia M any mineral...copper, tenorite, atacamite, azurite, allophane, calcite, and pyrrhotite pseudomorphs after cuprite. Cuprite...formerly found in beautiful specimens” at the McGinn mine in Mecklenburg County and at several of the copper...from the Clark mine, and octahedral cuprite crystals to 7 mm and cuprite-included calcite crystals have...the Allouez mine, Keweenaw County; good cuprite crystals have been found in the Indiana mine, and cuprite
Report (issue)
Grafton–Maclean 1:250 000 metallogenic map sheet area lies in northeastern New South Wales and extends...sediments, especially along the coast. The rocks in this area range in age from Silurian to Recent and contain...occur in the map sheet area. The dominant metallogenic character of the area is the development of a...proportion of the metallic mineralisation in the map area is associated with leucocratic granitoids of Late...sten pipes, veins and stockworks. Examples are the Glen Eden stockwork and the extensive pipes developed
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
Report (issue)
MONOGRAPH 17 of Somepats oe ilar ce| + in Australia mail iii DOOO38J0754 oA., eet OF ROME prhge...IMPORTANT MINERAL DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA Cover Picture—The Argyle Diamond mine Photo by courtesy of Ashton...DISCOVERY OF SOME IMPORTANT MINERAL DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA Editors K. R. GLASSON J. H. RATTIGAN INCORPORATED...House, 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052 1990 © Copyright By THE AUSTRALASIAN ...any of its publications | National Library of Australia Card No. ISBN 6 949106 57 7 Typeset by Abb-typesetting
Report (issue)
Geology and Petrology of the Ute Mountains Area Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared on...481 Geology and Petrology of the Ute Mountains Area Colorado By E. B. EKREN and F. N. HOUSER GEOLOGICAL...Hydrothermal (hot-spring) alteration associated with breccia pipes______ _________ 10 12 13 14 14 15 15 18...laccolith. Last Spring laccolith ___________--__-_--Flat laccolith___---------------------Three Forks la...__________ Sills and dikes --------------------------Breccia pipes__ _ ___________----------------Summary of
Catalog/List
variety ·chalcotrichlte", Sandy Flat Pipe, Red BankMine, Northern Territory,Australia. A llmonitlc matrix riddled...needles.84x67x47mm. £65 4 VESUVIANITE, Jeffrey Mine, Quebec, Canada. Vivid violet-rose pink crystals...crystals to 12mm. 49x38x24mm. £68 5 CUPRITE, Mashamba Mine, near Kotwezi, Zaire. Sharp reddish crystals to...quality gemmy emerald crystals to 4.5mm on white calcite. 68x60x42mm. £64 8 PYROMORPHITE, Kintore Open...Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Very rich dramatic display with xtls to 10mm. 65x45x36mm
Journal (issue)
France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Richard...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ........................................the Shaba Crescent (Gauthier et a l., 1989), the northern portion of the Lufilian Arc wherein the tectonic...is connected by a good road to the old Kansanshi mine and the neighboring Solwezi town, about 100 km S60°W...As with many copper deposits cropping out in the region, the history of Kipushi traces back to the Bantu
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 430 PRE-CARBONIFEROUS GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PART OF THE ARCTIC ISLANDS _ ~ HAZEN FOLD BELT...BULLETIN 430 PRE-CARBONIFEROUS GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PART OF THE ARCTIC ISLANDS HAZEN FOLD BELT AND...12 Approved for publication: 91.06.24 PREFACE Northern Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg islands contain unique...water basin with volcanic rocks in its northern parts. A large area in northeasternmost Ellesmere Island... and geological interest. The remainder of the region has economic potential , apparent from showings
Journal (volume)
7 Campbell Court, Warrandyte, Victoria 3113, Australia. JOURNAL MANAGER Frank Ince 78 Leconfield Road... Williams, Kingswood, Australia. I.R. Plimer, Kensington Gardens, S. Australia. Aims and Scope: The Journal...COVER: A group of white, translucent, prismatic calcite crystals (34 mm across) from the Whin Sill at Barrasford...mineralisation associated with the Whin Sill of northern England is described in a geological context in...Common. Rediscovered after more than a century, in an area not known for its minerals, the value of careful
Report (volume)
AND QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE REGION, TEXAS A. C. TROWBRIDGE ^fLA"' 9 UNITED STATES...Grande Delta_-_-_____.______________________________ Gulf coast-___---_-. ---_------_------_--------___--__--Stratigraphy...Sketch map of Texas showing the lower Rio Grande region in relation to the topographic provinces _-__.-_...___-._._.____ 8 2. Map of the lower Rio Grande region showing topographic divisions. _____.___--.___...sand belt.____. ._____._________._. 40 6. A, The Gulf coast southeast of Raymondville; B, Midway formation
Book
GRAVITY IN THE PRINCE OF WALES, SOMERSET, AND NORTHERN BAFFIN ISLANDS REGION.A. W. J. Berkhout 63 GEOLOGY...SUCCESSION ON NORTHERN BAFFIN ISLAND, NW.T.H. Geldsetzer 99 LATE PALEOZOIC OROGENY IN THE NORTHERN YUKON ...PERMIAN STRATIGRAPHY, SOUTHERN EAGLE PLAIN, YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA . . . A. D. Graham 159 MESOZOIC EPICONTINENTAL...Young 181 CRETACEOUS AND TERTIARY STRATIGRAPHY, NORTHERN BANKS ISLAND.G. Jutard and B. P. Plauchut 203...259 PERMAFROST STUDIES IN THE NORMAN WELLS REGION, NORTH¬ WEST TERRITORIES P. J. Kurfurst, R. M
Book
and % Associated Sulphides at the Almad^n Mercury Mine, Spain.7 BARTHOLOME, P. , EVRARD, P. , KATEKESHA...Heavy Metals in Permian Sandstones Near Bolzano (Northern Italy).65 COLLINS, J. A. , SMITH, L. : Lithostratigraphic...Among Uranium Deposits, South Texas, Coastal Plain Region, U.S.A. 101 GELDSETZER, H. : Syngenetic Dolomitization...Carbonates and Silicates in Liassic Marls of the Northern Limestone Alps (Kalkalpen). 129 HONNOREZ, J...paleogeography of the deltaic estuary which occupied the Gulf of Luxembourg in Upper Toarcian times. The remarkably
Book
the pebbly sand, silt and clay; mudstone; chert breccia: preserved in solution Mercia Mud- red-brown...includes the Hollington Formation with baryte or calcite-cemented sandstones, the Hawksmoor Formation with...attracts many thousands of visitors each year. The northern half of the district is underlain by a variety...deposits. This last geological period saw the northern glaciers enter the district both from the east...Matlock 1978 CONTENTS ao Chapter 1 Introduction Area and location 1 Outline of geological history Chapter
Book
localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...is not common in the metasedimentary rocks of the area which host these species, but "reasonably good"...excellent loose ilmenite crystal clusters from a calcite vein-dike digging site which they called the Bentley...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...finest ilmenite specimens have come from an unusual calcite vein-dike occurrence with an exposure very near
Report (volume)
________________________ Location and extent of area.____________________________________ Purpose of..._------_Tehachapi Mountains area...___________________________________ Bissell Hills area.___________________...Rosamond Hills area.___________________________________________ Soledad Mountain area.______________...Hill-Willow Springs Mountain area.-..------------------Antelope Valley area-_________-_-____----__-_--...vicinity___-_.--_____----_...,_______.__ 218 Mojave Desert area-_-_____---------__--_----_---___..-__-___-__ 219
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cause it has a meaning in more than one subject area, an abbreviated notation of the particular subject...an orthorhombic or triclinic crystal, ablation area The part of a glacier or snowfield in which, over...c below the equilibrium line. Cf: accumulation area. Syn: zone axis. of ablation. a axis [struc petrol]...fabric axis ablation breccia solution breccia. ablation exceeds accumulation; the region which is the direction...tion till, either overlying ice in the ablation area, or resting on abapertural Away from the aperture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discovered REE and Nb mineralization in the Twihinat area in the 15 western part of the Oulad Dlim Massif...of massive Fe-oxide mineralization and silica breccia. The carbonatite 19 shows intensively metasomatized...with apatite, quartz and Fe-oxides, or trapped in calcite voids, 22 suggesting a secondary ore formation...with quartz and magnetite or hematite. The silica breccia also 25 shows significant subsequent infill of...ceriopyrochlore in the carbonatite, 82 silica breccia and Fe-oxide mineralization at Twihinat. The identification
Report (issue)
ILLUSTRATIONS [Plates are in pocket] Index map of northern Utah and adjacent States showing location of the...Correlation of some Paleozoic sections in central and northern Utah. Page FIGURE 1. View of Fitchville Ridge...limestone-______________________________-__------__--___-__ 32 14. Flat-pebble limestone conglomerate in upper member of...dolomite-_--____-__-_-_--------_-----------------_-_--_41 20. Flat-pebble conglomerate in Opex formation__________..._______________-__________---------------54 25. Flat-pebble limestone conglomerate in Opohonga limes
Book (edition)
. . . . . . . . . . Microfractures and Veins (Calcite Veins) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . Origin and Classification of Calcite Veins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . Descriptive Criteria of Calcite-Filled Microfractures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Significance.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carbonate Breccia Types: Origin, Classification, Criteria . . . ...Recognize Former Aragonite and Mg-Calcite Mineralogy in Ancient Low-Calcite Limestones? . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
•• • ••• ••• Federated Malay States • • • ••• Australia • • • ••• • •• •• • New Zealand ••• ••• 0 • ...quartz of the Nuggetty reef, Maldon, Victoria (Australia), contains about 35 per cent. of bismuth; and...economic importance are Ka.Igoorlie in Western Australia, and Cripple Creek in Colorado,. The mo8t -irr1portant...detritus, or, as in California and Victoria (Australia), by thick flows of basaltic lava; and '' marine...the telluride-impregnated schists of W e·s tern Australia. In the Palroozoic rocks, examples are the ''
Book (edition)
Orthoclase feldspar 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz 3. Calcite 8. Topaz 4. Fluorite 9. Corundum 5. Apatite...gypsum, and a copper coin is just about as hard as calcite. A pocketknife blade will scratch apatite easily...wetting the specimen, rubbing the area, and examining it after the area dries. Tests should be made only...cryswhich show a distinctive arrangement of their flat, smooth faces and of the angles at which the faces...and the flat-terminated prism of beryl belong here, as well as the many variations that calcite plays on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granodiorite and other intrusions. The uplifted area was eroded and some of the igneous and associated...laid down probably over the whole of the present area of Jamaica. These beds are not involved in folding...far as 8,000 feet below sea level, and in this region of Andean activity may have been subjected to intrusion...joined by calcite. Some pebbles are provided with a sort of flattened or stream-lined tail of calcite evidently...and into the calcite ; or crushed it up into minute slices which alternate with calcite. A secondary
Book (edition)
made to the publisher. The National Libra.Ty of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: A Coral Reef...Reprinted December 1994 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN AUSTRALIA BY SURREY BEATTY & SONS PTY LIMITED 43 Rickard...on the gastropods and bivalves occurring in the region. Both Terry Walker and Brian King made their unpublished...lost his life while monitoring sea birds in the Gulf of Carpentaria. •• •• •• ••• • • t ••• • • •...Aborigines lived along the coast of northeastern Australia for many thousands of years. Although not great
 
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