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Calcite from
Little Comet Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:"Calcite is a major vein constituent, although less common than quartz and dolomite. It occurs in the same crystal habit as dolomite and is often mistaken for the latter mineral. The typical habit is that of thin flattened rhombohedra showing growth marks.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Little Comet Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:901125
Long-form Identifier:1:3:901125:0
GUID (UUID V4):08feb18e-2168-477d-91fb-a5563bf2197e
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
2.0km (1.2 miles) Morning Star Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
2.0km (1.3 miles) Sir John Franklin Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
2.6km (1.6 miles) Cherry Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
10.4km (6.5 miles) A1 Mine, A1 Mining Settlement, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
41.9km (26.1 miles) Head of the LaTrobe River, Powelltown, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia
47.4km (29.5 miles) Thomson River Copper Mine (Cooper's Creek Copper Mine), Walhalla, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria, Australia
53.6km (33.3 miles) Glenmaggie Quarry, Seaton, Wellington Shire, Victoria, Australia
54.9km (34.1 miles) Road metal quarry, Howitt Plains, Wellington Shire, Victoria, Australia
56.8km (35.3 miles) Avon quarry, Seaton, Wellington Shire, Victoria, Australia
60.0km (37.3 miles) Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
ia M I N E R A LS FROM SOM E M I N ES I N T H E WOODS POI NT DISTRI CT, V I C T O R I A Doon McColl ...C.S.I.R.O. Frank Bussa! c / - Pos1 Office, Woods Point V1c1ona 1I BS TR,I CT mriet , "( 11111,erals...a numhcr of nld gold mine, in the Woods Point-Gaffncy's Creek area o f Victoria ( Fi g. I ) The ,111d\'...ted with a d� ke ( 11,11ally d1on1c) from the Woods Point Dyke Swarm ( H il l . 1 952). which intruded...picked quart 7. T H E 1\II 'E ir John Francklin Mine l.oca1i1,n: r!1e Fra ncklin group of mines is si1ua1ed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY OF THE VICTORIA, GEOLOGIST 1921. GOLD OCCURRENCES No. 2 OF AUSTRALIA. N. R. Ju•ER. CONTENTS...Resourcesof Victoria. Bull. 34, Vic. Geol. Surv., •914. GOLD OCCURRENCES OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. 81 Apart...present writer at Queenstown,Walhalla and Wood's Point, the petrological, mineralogicaland genetic aspectsof...in carbon. The well known gold-fieldsof Western Victoria--Bendigo, Ballarat, Clunes,Maidon, Daylesford...dovician'beds. TheupperOrdovician arewidespread in Eastern Victoria but containfew importantgoldfields. Closelyfolded
Journal (entire run)
293 Wattletree Road, East Malvern, Vic., 3145. Australia. Phone: (03) 509 1666 Fax: (03) 500 9475 All rights...Library of Australia ISBN 0 909223 64 5 Design by Gemcraft Pty. Ltd. Printed in Australia by Ramsay Ware...cover is from the Coober Pedy opal fields, South Australia. The 10-ounce gold crystal on the back cover was...was found at Mosquito Gully, Wedderburn, Victoria. LIST OF ARTICLES VOLUME 1, NOS. 1 -51 The Contribution...or Gmelinite (or both) in Basalt From Flinders, Victoria - W.D. Birch Apophyllite in Tasmania - FL. Swherland
Report (issue)
Warren (Bisbee) mining district, which includes this mine, yielded 167,242,000 tons of ore from 1880 to 1981...does not attempt to list every name used for the mine nor every owner or operator, including present owners...worked extensively until the 1900's. The Hilltop mine, the main producer of the district, was first operated...deposits of the Cochise mining district, in the Little Dragoon Mountains, were discovered in the early...to the southeast along the general trend of the Little Dragoon and Dragoon Mountains, appears to be covered
Journal (issue)
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