 | | Book | | Prospectors' Cuide to· in Australia A Prospectors' ·G uide to in Australia N. 8 R._Perry BY THE SAME...Gemstones in Australia Practical Gemcutting Prospectors' Guide to Gemstones in Australia AH&AW REED PTY...Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Perry, Ron Prospectors' guide to gold in Australia. Includes...50328 6. I. Prospecting - Australia. 2. Gold mines and mining - Australia. I. Perry, Nance. II. Title...Preface 5 Acknowledgments Introduction 6 What is gold? 7 5 Definition, fineness, chemical character |  | | Book (edition) | | (1979), Cabri and Laflamme (1997), Cairncross (2004), Cook (1979), Dobrovolskaya (1999), Dunn (1995), Dyuzhikov...of roquesite (greenish grey) in massive bornite (violet grey); one grain is cross-cut by a crack filled...Average Hardness Soft minerals, such as galena or gold, are very difficult to polish without any scratches;...certain degree of bending, while some metals, such as gold, may be deformed into very thin sheets. The term...yellow). Right (second from bottom): Bornite (violet grey) and chalcopyrite (yellow) act as Cu source |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Charlottesville] at 07:25 22 December 2014 ROBERT B. COOK Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University...various shades, from almost color- Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, is a professor...9(3: less through brown, yellow, green, gray, violet, and blue. The best specimens are sharply developed...scorodite, and some scorodite from the large Gold Quarry mine in Nevada contains significant phosphorus...at the cobalt mine at Great Hill north of Cobalt, Middlesex County; the Booth bismuth mine at Monroe, Fairfield |  | Márquez-Zavalía, M. F., Vymazalová, A., Galliski, M. Á., Watanabe, Y., Murakami, H. (2020) Indium-bearing paragenesis from the Nueva Esperanza and Restauradora veins, Capillitas mine, Argentina. Journal of GEOsciences, 65 (2) 97-109 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Nueva Esperanza and Restauradora veins, Capillitas mine, Argentina María Florencia MÁRQUEZ-ZAVALÍA1,2*,...of the twenty-three veins described at Capillitas mine, an epithermal precious- and base-metal vein deposit...tennantite-(Fe). Accessory minerals comprise hübnerite, gold, silver, stannite, stannoidite and mawsonite, and...editor: J. Zachariáš 1. Introduction The Capillitas mine is an intermediate sulfidation epi thermal precious-...National Indium-bearing paragenesis from Capillitas mine, Argentina MINA CAPILLITAS Ortiz Bordón Santa |  | | Book | | CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS LIPOW Si. ao sé ...LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia Philip Scalisi David Cook VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW...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 |  | | Catalog/List | | two bright red ruby cabochons, rimmed in yellow gold. Raised on a removable base of frosted rock crystal...iridescent sheen, with a carnelian beak and 14K yellow gold feet, depicting a duck. The removable base formed...reeded silver border with x-form decoration in 18K gold. Signed ZADORA, sterling, 18K. Measuring 4 1/4 x...which is decorated with a substantial 18K yellow gold border. Length 11 in. $3,000 - 5,000 PROPERTY FROM...the lid is lined with an 1/8 inch border of yellow gold. The box surmounted by a large carved transparent |  | | | | Press Co., Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Oak Tree Press Co. Ltd P.O...Also found at Somerville, New Jersey. In South Australia at Wallaroo and on Yorke Peninsula, and in New...been found at the Kongsberg mines in Norway. In Australia, silver is found at Broken Hill in New South Wales...Silver 17 ELEMENTS name: Gold formula: Au physical properties: Color: Gold yellow, rarely with orange...orange tint Streak: Gold yellow, slight white or Lustre: Metallic orange tint Hardness: 2.5-3.0 Sp. G.: |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newnham 10 Heyington Close, Croydon Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile (03) 9723 5041...Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 3, Number...Articles: The Coolgardie pegmatite field, Western Australia Mark I. Jacobson ......................... 91...M11se11111 ofVic10ria Associate Editors The Daydream Mine, Silverton, N.S.W. John D. Leach .................associated with ironstones in the Olary region, South Australia P.M. Ashley, B.G. Lottermoser, K.M. Scott ... |  | | Report (issue) | | Properties: Luster: Metallic. Opaque. Color: Violet-gray; distinctly violet in reflected light. R: (400) 39.0... a = 9.51 Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Canada. 2.85 (100), 1.674 (80), 1.820...00 (1) Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Canada; contains trace chalcopyrite. (2) Friday mine, Julian, California...USA, from the Friday mine, Julian, San Diego Co., California; the Key West mine, Clark Co., Nevada; the...the Copper King mine, Gold Hill district, Boulder Co., Colorado; the Lick Fork deposit, Floyd Co., Virginia; |  | | Book | | showing a fibrous radiating structure. Opposite: gold on quartz from California. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...USSR; as crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone...Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....parts distilled water. ELEMENTS AND ALLOYS Gold Au Gold crystals are rare; they belong to the cubic...found may be octahedra, cubes or rhombdodecahedra. Gold is more commonly found as grains, in dendritic forms |  | | Book (edition) | | negroes of West African coast. Red, blue or violet. Has also been fished in Samoa; probably still...sapphire. A sapphire; blue in daylight, changing to violet, purple or reddish under DICTIONARY OF GEMS...chrysoberyl, emerald green in daylight, red to violet by ordinary artificial light. From Russia; Ceylon...like a metal, is a crystalline aggregate. See solid gold. alluvial. Pertaining to the action of rivers, or...known as “Mexican turquoise.” amethyst. (1) A pale violet to a deep purple transparent variety of crystalline |  | | Book | | Mrs Beryl Gartrell, Miss G. Cook, The Australian Gemmologist and Queensland Mining Journal. Other kind...Printing Co Ltd, Tokyo. National Library of Australia Cataloguing in Publication data Perry, Nance Australian...colourbook series). ISBN 0 589 07012 6. I. Gems - Australia - Identification. I. Perry, Ron.joint author....wish to learn about the minerals and gems of Australia. PREFACE gemmologists, mineralogists in a specialised... It will travel throughout the backblocks of Australia and through the museums of our capital cities |  | | Journal (issue) | | supported by videos showing the path of stones from mine to market with footage of exotic mining operations...million. Its emerald and beryl output from the Kagem mine in Zambia, in which it has a 75% holding, was almost...the Speaker of the upper house At the Montepuez mine in Mozambique, production of rough ruby and corundum...Myanmar Gemstones Law, only licensed companies can mine for precious gemstones. Exploration licenses are...stones from Afghanistan. “Minor businesses like mine depend on gems from the local markets in Peshawar |  | | Journal (issue) | | xld. & enclosed in xld . Calcite. 2x 1 112 . 3 .00 GOLD v. ELECTRUM , Vorospatak. M icro. xld. en roc k...liV. CJa,,k ............ GLYCERINE POPULAR lN AUSTRALIA ...... ........... .. .......... .......... ....Consoli- former president of the Federation, mandated Mine near Eureka, Utah. H e plans aged the contest. The...as a Tilly Foster Unit. The old abandoned iron mine (magnetite) at Tilly Foster, Putnam Co., N. Y. is...MARKET After two years of intensive research, Ultra-Violet Products, Inc., of South Pasadena, California |  | | Journal (issue) | | (now manufactured by six firms in the U.S.A., Australia, Japan and Italy) identifies gemstones by measuring...carat gold 22 carat ring shank 9 and 18 carat ring shanks Electroplated nickel-silver Rolled gold 11 mm...and 24 carat gold will produce readings in the green zone (see Table 1). Although gold jewellery settings...largest source of commercial sapphire production in Australia. The mining district is centred north-east of...district, New South Wales, and the Anakie district, Queensland, are the only major commercial production centres |  | | Book (edition) | | Press Co., Ltd., Nassau, Baham as Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Oak Tree Press Co., Ltd., ...Also found at Somerville, New Jersey. In South Australia at Wallaroo and on Yorke Peninsula, and in...been found at the Kongsberg mines in Norway. In Australia, silver is found at Broken Hill in New South Wales...Silver 17 ELEMENTS NAME: Gold. FORMULA: Au PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: Color: Gold yellow, rarely with orange...orange tint Streak: Gold yellow, slight white or Lustre: Metallic orange tint Hardness : 2.5-3.0 Sp. G.: |  | | Book | | fluorescence and have the strongest absorption line in the violet part of the spectrum are members of the Cape series...FASHIONING. IMITATIONS AND SYNTHETICS now abandoned mine at Murfreesboro, Diamonds are usually cut in the...Diamond is widespread in of northern Western Australia. Probably Diamonds have been imitated by many...amounts of chemical impurities. in Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, towards the end of the 19th century...cut out most of the yellow, most of the green and violet parts of the spectrum, When rubies are viewed through |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | photo. Figure 2. The Kingsley Sapphire, green and gold 162 carat crystal, from the Rubyvale area. John...1797, Penrith South DC New South Wales 1797, Australia l.sutherland@uws.edu.au GAYLE B. WEBB Geoscience...College Street, Sydney New South Wales 2010, Australia gayle.webb@austmus.gov.au Downloaded by ["Queen's...Besse. D eep under the eastern highlands of Australia, along a 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) corridor...Some deposits proved rich enough to prospect and mine for their cargo of gem-grade sapphires (fig. 1) |  | | Journal (issue) | | basalt fields: a comparative study of Barrington, Australia, and West Pailin, Cambodia, gemfields F.L. Sutherland1...Geodiversity Research Group, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia 2. Giibelin Gemmological Laboratory, Lucerne,...Caterham, Surrey, U.K. ABSTRACT: Barrington, Australia, and West Pailin, Cambodia, basalt fields yield... basalt, Barrington (Australia), Pailin (Cambodia) Introduction Fast Australia and South East Asia exploit...industries (Mumme, 1988; Hughes, 1990, 1997). East Australia produces sapphire and rare ruby (Coldham, 1985; |  | | Book | | many fun-filled weekends for all the family. Australia is renowned for the world's finest Opal. But opal...opals are exactly alike! found mostly in central Queensland. It is a curious formation of silica which has...development of the electron Invariably stones from Queensland are cut with the microscope that science could...lively colour play. As the smaller the green to violet. the name suggests, the stone ranges from transparent..."nodules". The unique 4 AUSTRALIAN OPAL DEPOSITS Australia is the world's greatest producer of precious opal | | | Book | | weekends for all the family. : '. . ' ~ L . ..... Australia is renowned for the world's finest Opal. But opal...special type of opal found mostly in central Queensland . It is a curious formation of silica which has...brown ironstone boulders. Invariably stones from Queensland are cut with the natural host rock (ironstone)...provide the red fire, the smaller the green to violet. LIGHT OPAL (sometimes referred to as "White Opal")..."nodules". The unique 4 AUSTRALIAN OPAL DEPOSITS Australia is the world's greatest producer of precious opal |  | | Journal (issue) | | Affiliated Associations: Gemmological Association of Australia: Canadian Gemmological Association: Rhodesian...Usually a line at 4375Â Paler colours often (blue/violet) ; Cr lines show whitish in red in bright green...darker areas show some absorption of blue/violet Line in deep violet Not distinctive Variable > 5 < 7 >6...; general absorption of blue/violet General absorption of blue/violet White areas Green areas -5 ...allowed at that time to give any details of the mine or even to publish. H e therefore wrote now to Zambia |  | | Book | | Covellite Cubanite Cuprite Enargite Galena Goethite Gold Graphite Hematite Ilmenite Lollingite Magnetite...more yellow than if it is on its own, or next to gold/silver when it may appear to show a colour which...anisotropic) Blue Yellow Chalcocite Gold Red/brown Pink/purple/violet Bornite, copper Bornite, copper...minerals o f not too intense a colour) Pink/purple/violet Yellow Red/brown Anisotropic Cobaltite Pyrite...Grey Light grey Brown-grey Native copper Native gold Pentlandite Galena Pyrite, native silver Native |  | | Journal (issue) | | Stevenson. This was a veritable mine of of inif one can have a mine for pearls. When formation - if I...1991,22, 6 334 Gem thaumasite from the Black Rock Mine, South South Mrica Africa Ulrich Henn, Markus...in South Africa. The locality is the Black Rock Mine in the Kalahari Manganese Field (Figure 1). That...""-' 1.1 I ",' . " . _ ......... .tI' Wessels Mine Black Rock A• • FRYBURG • HOTAZEL -KURUMAN...Kalahari Manganese Field with the Black Rock Mine and the Wessels Mine Fig. I. near Hotazel (after Shigley el |  | | Journal (issue) | | Everhart's paper on the "Skaggs Springs Quicksilver Mine, So noma County, California," is a description...and development of this mine. Melvin C. Swinney's "The Altoona Quicksilver Mine, Trinity Coun ty, California...California," is especially interesting be cause this mine is outside the principal belt of California quicksilver...California Ce11fe1111ial I 1 6 n i c e California mine rals with several historic notes. $ 1 .00 plus...at this time, especially the dark stars from Queensland, it is a good time to try a few of these beautiful |
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