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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Magnesite-Siderite Series1 photo of Pyrrhotite associated with Magnesite-Siderite Series at this locality.
Fluorite1 photo of Pyrrhotite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:9264
Long-form Identifier:1:3:9264:7
GUID (UUID V4):8f9d33ab-9e64-476f-8f3e-1621e3ae8dfc
Localities for Pyrrhotite in this Region
Slaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Slaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
12.4km (7.7 miles) Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
17.6km (10.9 miles) Mt Ramsay mine, Mt Ramsay, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
18.8km (11.7 miles) Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
33.6km (20.9 miles) Mt Lindsay mine (Parsons Hood), Mt Lindsay mineral field, West Coast municipality, 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
40.6km (25.2 miles) Colebrook Hill Mine, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery district, 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
41.5km (25.8 miles) Koonya prospect, Rosebery district, West Coast 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.................................... Prosopite, pyrrhotite, calcite, (?) fluorite ................... Arsenopyrite...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
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)
Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract The Clevelandtin-copperdepositcomprises severallensesof pyrrhotite-cassiterite-stannite-...rocks;(II) quartz+ tourmaline+ fluorite+ chlorite+ pyrrhotite+ chalcopyrite + cassiterite + stanniteasstratabound...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
Report (issue)
Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY...ENERGY and RESOURCES Mineral Resources Tasmania Tasmania TASMANIA SIMPLIFIED GEOLOGY LAUNCESTON Sm ...orogeny (cf. Tabberabberan Orogeny of mainland Australia). MIDDLE DEVONIAN LATE CAMBRIAN– EARLY DEVONIAN...with basement indicated. MINERAL RESOURCES TASMANIA Tasmania DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY and...Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary by D. B. Seymour, G. R. Green and C
Report (issue)
Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY...ENERGY and RESOURCES Mineral Resources Tasmania Tasmania TASMANIA SIMPLIFIED GEOLOGY LAUNCESTON Sm ...orogeny (cf. Tabberabberan Orogeny of mainland Australia). MIDDLE DEVONIAN LATE CAMBRIAN– EARLY DEVONIAN...with basement indicated. MINERAL RESOURCES TASMANIA Tasmania DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY and...Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary by D. B. Seymour, G. R. Green and C
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...rock-flour and later tourmaline alteration. The Mt Bischoff greisen system is possibly part of a ‘porphyry...deposit. INTRODUCTION The Mt Bischoff tin deposit, Tasmania, Australia is part of the ‘Zeehan tin field’
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
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
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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 (article/letter/editorial)
of the cassiterite-sulfide deposits of western Tasmania John L. Walshe a,*, Scott W. Halley b, John A...Technology, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601. Australia b Renison Goldfields Consolidated, GPO Box 360...4820, Australia c MIM Exploration, Suite 12, 154 Fullarton Rd, Rose Park, Rose Park 506, Australia d Geology...Geology Dept, ANU, ACT 0200, Australia Received 29 May 1995; accepted 23 August 1995 Abstract The cassiterite-sulfide...cassiterite-sulfide deposits of western Tasmania are spatially and temporally related to Devonian granitoids
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas...Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Benitoite, Gold L.A. County $12 Museum, Himalaya mine $12 (Brazil), Bosch
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)
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...extensively overprinted the earlierformedassemblages. Pyrrhotite is the dominant sulfideandtexturalstudies suggest...carbonate-replacement, pyrrhotite-cassiterite depositsin a possiblevolcanogenic exhalativeorigin for the Mount westernTasmania...Most mineralizationat Mount in westernTasmania hasbeenaccepted by mostworkers Bischoff occurred asreplacement
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...greisenalteration within the marginsof thispluton.At Mount Bischoff thesetermsare spatialin contextand are appliedto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Fluid InclusionStudies at the Rex Hill Mine, Tasmania D. I. G•ows, M. SOLOMON,AND T. A. I•*T•-• Abstract...Rossarden-Storeys Creek tin mining area of NE Tasmania(Blissett, 1959). The geologyof the orebody(summarized...1. Geological plan and section of the Rex Hill mine (after Urquhart, 1967). intergrownin the intersticesof...arsenopyrite, fluorite, wolframite, marcasite, pyrrhotite, canfieldite,tetrahedrite,boulangerite,cubanite...compoundbodies with pyrrhotite. Discrete pyrrhotite bodiesin sphalerite are rare, and pyrrhotite is absentin
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)
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)
sulphideproduction hasneverplayeda major economicrole in the district. For manyyearsthe mill headsaveragedhardly more...kilometersof diamonddrilling havebeendonein the district. The geologicinformation gatheredas a result of...publisheddata regarding these features of the district. A. R. GEYNE. PACHUCA,HIDALGO,MEXICO, January...Hills, South Dakota. At Greenbushes,in Western Australia, tin andtantalum(pluscolumbium)are intimatelyassociated...Tantalum and eolumbium: Mineral Resources of Australia, Summary Rept. No. 19, 1945; Min. Res. Survey
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)
University of New South Wales, Broken Hill, Australia Precambrian and Early Palaeozoic submarine exhalative...3004, associated with granitic rocks. Maucher Australia (1972, 1976) suggested that the "younger" 00...associated with pyrrhotite ! carbonate rocks or quartz-tourmaline rocks. Pyrrhotite + Carbonate + Cassiterite...Cassiterite Association In Western Tasmania (Australia), a numb e r o f pyrrhotite +_ cassiterite ore bodies ...carbonate rocks (e. g. Renison Bell, Cleveland, Mr. Bischoff). Previous workers have considered that these
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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)
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...replacementore formation; stage2: cassiterite + pyrrhotite+ arsenopyrite + silicates + minorsulfides andiron...of clastic sediments; stage$: cassiterite + pyrrhotite+ arsenopyrite + silicates + minorsulfides--forming
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RESISTIVITY OF BELL AND MT. BISCHOFF, ARTHUR HILL AND RONALD PYRITE FROM TASMANIA GREEN ABSTRACT Pyrite...haveformedat a lower temperaturethan pyrite from Mr. Bischoff. Slight thermoelectric differences, unattributableto...positivethermoelectricity and (ii) pyrite at the baseof pyrrhotite"sills" may have formed at highertemperatures...withoutcassiter{te {n thick (10 to 50 ft) "sills"of pyrrhotite. Many "groupings"of pyrite alsooccur:singlescatteredcrystals...AND R. GREEN Location: Renison Bell and Mt. Bischoff. environments and groupings at RenisonBell and
 
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