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Corundum from
Greenbushes Mine, Greenbushes Tinfield, Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Corundum
Formula:Al2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Corundum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Greenbushes Mine, Greenbushes Tinfield, Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:890150
Long-form Identifier:1:3:890150:7
GUID (UUID V4):62e549da-6f67-4250-901e-03e171564c11
References
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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...p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst,” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale Mine”; all these
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...million and have maintained mining communities at Greenbushes and in various parts of the Pilbara. The present...interested in searching for tin deposits in Western Australia. J H Lord 19th June 1978. DIRECTOR iii
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.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
holmquistites: Ferroholmquistite from Greenbushes (Western Australia) and hints for compositional constraints...Pagano (Italy), and comes from the Greenbushes pegmatite (Western Australia). The analyzed sample has been...holmquistite samples (one from Greenbushes, Western Australia, and one from the QLC mine, Quebec). Litvin et al...deuterated samples of holmquistite from Greenbushes (Western Australia). Complete Raman spectra and band assignment...is provided in Table 1. The sample from the Greenbushes pegmatite (code 3380B in the Pagano¡s collection
Journal (issue)
The Smithsonian Institution Minerals of the Greenbushes T in field ....................................Geological Survey Uralolite from the Dunton Gem Mine, Newry, Maine: A Second O c c u rre n ce .........length, collected in the Mindola open pit, Rokana mine, Zambia, by S. P. Korowski. The Mineralogical Record...under­ ground miner at the 115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August...presented at his trial, Stokes began sneaking into the mine at night and stealing (“highgrading”) gold. No one
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Microscopy Centre University of Western Australia, Nedlands 6009, Western Australia (Received 24 January 1978)...given in Table I. Spectrometers were aligned using corundum, quartz, and pyrite for the A1, Si, and F e K...references. The kaolinite was from Greenbushes, Western Australia, and has been described by Bolland... Sedimentary illite from Mullellorina, South Australia, was X-ray powder diffraction analysis of random...more than a 1-2% difference to the results, when corundum is used to set the wavelength (Sweatman and Long
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
concentrate, or “Coltan,” that caused Ta mines in Australia and Canada to be placed on care and maintenance...% from tin slag refining and 10 % from secondary mine concentrates. Due to rapid industrialisation and...Canada account for about 92 and 7 % of Nb world mine production, respectively. Since the bulk of the...relatively stable and slightly increasing in Australia. While Ta production for 2012 is much lower (in...past producers, such as Wodgina, Mt. Cattlin (Australia) and Tanco (Canada), being placed on care and
Report (issue)
02 )Σ=0.99 (Al2.01 Si0.01 )Σ=2.02 O4 . (2) Geco mine, Canada; by electron microprobe, average of six...andradite, willemite (Franklin, New Jersey, USA); corundum, pyrrhotite, högbomite, nigerite, phlogopite...staurolite, cordierite, pyrite, chalcopyrite (Geco mine, Canada). Distribution: Many localities, but most... Abundant at Falun, Sweden. From the Silberberg mine, near Bodenmais, Bavaria, Germany. At Tiriolo, near...Carolina; in the Cotopaxi mine, Fremont Co., Colorado. In Canada, found at the Geco mine, Manitouwadge, Ontario;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
regionally. We include a newly recognized category of corundum-bearing anatectic felsic pegmatite formed in mantle...sequence in the Broken Hill area, New South Wales, Australia. Here, the metasedimentary sequence has a volcanogenic...Anatectic pegmatites formed in the mantle The western Pyrénées of France are the “type locality” of a...of them, Urdach and Espéchère, located in the western part of the belt, contain geochemically very unusual...minerals includes, in addition to albite, coarse corundum in some dikes, muscovite, zircon, thorite, strontian
Journal (issue)
3 19 Alabama Alaska Argentine Republic Asia Australia Austria 21 21 N 25 25 26 28 -. Banka 29...Domingo Scotland Siam Siberia South America South Australia South Dakota Spain Swaziland ; 145 146 148...Virginia .186 CONTENTS V PAGE Washington Western Australia 187 Wyoming 190 191 203 209 General Bibliography...Geological Survey of Western Australia, Ann. Progr. Rep. Geol. Surv. Western Australia. Perth. Annual...Geologist-in-charge, Washington, D. C. Bull. Western Australia Geol. Surv Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist California
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite districts: (1) The Paleozoicgranite area of western Spain (east of the Portugueseboundary), and (2)...and lithium phase near Caceres and elsewhere in western Spain. and a lithium phase at Lalin. Pontevedra...Eastern AIps extending from western Austria through Carinthia and western Styria to central Styria. Also... 160 THE AMERICAN MINERALOGIST at Habachthal (western Austria) and elsewhere in the Tyrol, Zissingdorf...Pegmatites are widely scattered over Bohemia and western Moravia. Also found in Czech Silesia and Middle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ASWATHANARAYANA(U.), see RAO (V. DIVAKARA), 678 Auburn mine, Minnesota, stilpnomelane, 693 AUCOTT(J. W.), see...Rdunion, anal., rhyodacite glass in, I52; with corundum altering to margarite, lO6 Rdunion, anal., glass...583; Scotland, anal., 8:9 Biphosphammite, Western Australia, anal., opt., X-ray, 965 Birnessite, conditions...sinters, anal., X-ray, opt., 872 Cairngorm, Inverness-shire, granite, 847 GALAS(G.), On the blue colour of...natural banded fluorites, 977 Calciotantalite, Western Australia, is a mixture of microlite and tantalite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Even rather exotic desilicified rocks such as corundum fels or marble horizons are known to give host...Lithotype 4: Metabasic rocks are very common along the western margin of the Bohemian Massif and have frequently...which were for the first time mapped along the western edge of the zone of mobilization by Forster (1961...level as lithotype 2 and has only been met in the western part of the Hagendorf-Pleystein Pegmatite Province...Bancroft and Tanco/ Bernic Lake, Canada, Greenbushes, Australia, Varuträsk ,Sweden or Iveland, 23 Norway
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Darling RangesBauxites at Jarrahdale,Western Australia P. L. C. GRUBB Abstract Although the bauxite...bauxite depositsin the Darling Ranges of Western Australia overlie predominatelygranite-gneissBasementrocks...Litholog¾ LATERITIC horizons cover much of south western Australia, yet as far as is known, areas containing...beenintermittently rejuvenated. Significantlyin Western Australia this uplandregionrepresentsthe easternhanging...location ofthemoreimportant bauxite depositsin Australia. 1005 1006 P. L. C. GRUBB 115ø 118' •;
Journal (issue)
diffraction analyses were carried out. The inclusions Corundum appears in Kenya as patches in metarecognized...inclusions responsible 1947). The same applies to the corundum of the for the asterism are separated into micro-striae...and sometimes fractured. In the North-Western region, corundum is Introduction found in Tertiary volcanic...NorthKenya and Tanzania, in addition to the many western region of Kenya. This is in the Turkana unusual...district of the Northern Rift Valley Province, and corundum in all possible colours and qualities lies on
Report (issue)
(Climax, Colorado), and silver production (San Antonio mine, Mexico). More than one-sixth of the tin consumed...during data compilation includes gold, tungstite, corundum (including sapphires), diamonds, spinel, and quartz...Bolivia), river beds, terraces, and colluvium (West Australia), however most are nonglacial alluvial deposits...Argentina; AUNS-New South Wales, Australia; AUQL-Queenlands, Australia; AUTS-Tasmania, Austrialia; AUVT...Victoria, Austrialia; AUWA--West Austrialia, Australia; BLVA-Bolivia; BRZL~Brazil: INDO Indonesia; MLYS--Malaysia;
Report (issue)
Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria, Australia. Sir ROBERT HADFIELD, Bart., lately President...Canada • • • • Australasia: Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand , il' 57 ,I CONTENTS CHAPTER...those of the Dutch Indies, Germany, China and Australia. Before the war, smelting was carried on in Germany...days, are the United I{:ingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Italy and Belgium. The... t912. British Empire : United Kingdom 5,254 Australia . 7,194 . India 323 Federated Malay States . 48
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
223; pentlandite, surface alteration, 213 AUSTRALIA,Greenbushes, holtite crystal structure and chemistry...(II) chlorides, synthesis and stabilities, 557 Corundum, inclusions in, Sri Lanka, 539 Covelline, predicted...MAESSCHALCK, A. A., and OEN, I. S., inclusions in corundum, Sri Lanka, 539 Deprotonation of biotite, EXAFS...Flexibility of asbestos, 327 Fluid inclusions, corundum, Sri Lanka, 539; lithium pegmatites, SE Ireland...Sapporo, Kobetsuzawa mine, frohbergite, 387; MIEPREFECTURE,Toba City, Kamo mine, barian bannisterite
Report (issue)
.-• Australia: New South Wales ••• Victoria ••• • •• Queensland • •• ••• •• • Western Australia ••• Tasmania...seller. Tin ores are also bought for delivery at the mine, or shipping port, and advances of cash are frequently...total. British Empire. Malay States ••• • •• Australia ••• ••• Nigeria • • • • • • •• United Kingdom...Britain . rUnited States ... Chile . . . .. . . .. .Australia ... . .. China and Hong I{ong Straits Settlements...(exports). Unfederated Malay States (exports) . .Australia ••• ••• Portugal • •• ••• Belgian Congo (exports)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
real need.-S. P. BURKE School of Mines of Western Australia, Kalgoorlie. Bulletin 6. Reports on Investigations...Metallurgical Laboratory of the School of Mines of Western Australia. The titles are: Treatment of Cupriferous...Tantalite from Concentrates from Greenbushes; Efficiency of Western Australian Eucalyptus Oils as Frothing...beginning with the diamond, following with the corundum just such ions that are encountered in industrial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(TAP); Fe: magnetite (LiF); Ti: rutile (LiF); Al: corundum (TAP); Cr: Cr metal (PET); Mn: Mn 100% (LiF);...kornite, two new Mn3+ rich silicates from the Wessels Mine, Kalahari, South Africa. Schweizerische Mineralogische...holmquistites: Ferroholmquistite from Greenbushes (Western Australia) and hints for compositional constraints...alkali amphibole from the Kajlidongri manganese mine, Jhabua district, Madhya Pradesh, India. American...anhydrous amphibole from the Kajlidongri Manganese Mine, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, India. American
Book
Archean Rare-Metal Pegmatites in Zimbabwe and Western Australia Geology and Metallogeny of Pollucite Mineralisations...Archean Rare-Metal Pegmatites in Zimbabwe and Western Australia Geology and Metallogeny of Pollucite Mineralisations...Earth Sciences The University of Western Australia Crawley, WA, Australia Axel Gerdes Department of Geosciences...Neo-Archean ages at *2625 Ma. A closure of the Tanco Mine for safety reasons and an imminent depletion of...for Li and rare metals in pegmatites. In Western Australia, the Meso- to Neo-Archean units in the Yilgarn
Report (volume)
_________________________________________________________ Australia----------------------------------------------------~ew...such as those in Southeast Asia, Brazil, and Western Australia. As a result, many economically important...Alaska 2. Manley Hot Springs, Alaska 3. Sullivan mine, British Columbia, Canada 4. New Brunswick area...Tex. 8. Black Range district, New Mexico 9. Climax mine, Colorado 10. Gorman area, California SOUTH AMERICA...Africa 16. Warmbad area, Republic of South Africa AUSTRALIA 1. Herbe~rton-Cooktown area 2. Croydon area 3
 
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