 | | Report (issue) | | MINES. N1S K l t A 1, RESOURCES OF ’CTESTERN AUSTRALIA. BULLETIN KO. 2. BY R. S. MATHESON BSc. GEOLOGICAL...67 (i!) PLANS. Phte. il a I. Map of TTesterii Australia, hhov i q g 1,ocahties of P r t n c i ~ t ~ Jiii...inthiitries, there has been a n increasing demand in Australia f o r clear ;incl coinmercial clear sheet mica...erery State in the Commonwealth. I n TTrstern Australia the m o 4 important known deposits are ~ituateilon...compare fa1 ourably with the mica fidds of Central Australia. Arrangements are being made at present (Febrnal-7 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEM STONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Included under this heading are precious, semi-precious, and ornamental...jewelry, lapidary work and collectors' items. Western Australia is not well endowed with precious gems but...Diamonds have been found in only one locality in Western Australia, that is in the basal conglomerate of the...main centres for this variety are at Yinnietharra in the Gascoyne and Spargoville about thirty miles south...variety has never been reported. 8. SAPPHIRE AND RUBY Corundum is known to occur at more than twenty |  | | Book | | CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS LIPOW Si. ao sé ... CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia Philip Scalisi David Cook VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...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 |  | | Book | | 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...in Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. The study of gemstones has gained many adherents |  | | Journal (issue) | | Affiliated Associations: Genu:nological Association of Australia: Canadian Genu:nological Association: Rhodesian...would be the Mica Creek Pegmatite near Mt Isa, Australia. Here, a near-vertical pegmatite outcrops in schistose...Stouffenbach) are situated in the shelly sandstone of the upper marine molasse. T h e profile of the building-stone...dravite crystal bonanza of Tinnietharra, Western Australia. Mineralogical Record, 1977,8,2, 109-110....Tokyo, Japan. Douglas, John J., Cardiff, N.S.W., Australia. Duroc-Danner, Jean-Marie, Geneva, Switzerland |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | £4.5Op 5. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill, N.S. Wales, Australia. Small sharp clear sparkling crystals co,eIl a...spots of sphalerite. 11}x1':'x1 " , £'3.UD , 78. RUBY CORUNDUM. Mysore distr~ct, ffindia. Fire lustrous...SCHOLZITE. Reaphook Hill, Flinders Range, S. Australia. Creamy-white sharp needly crystals to t" in length...hematite matrix. 4x:3tx1", £23.00 84. SPHALERITE var. RUBY BLENDE. Treece, Kansas, M.S.A. Choice translucent...x1t", £11.00 TOURMALINE variety DRAVITE. Yinnietharra, W. Australia. Select lustrous browm sharp dOUbly terminated |  | | Report (issue) | | ....73 Asia ..............................78 Australia ......................... 82 Europe (east) .....center of the front of the crown was thought to be ruby until 1998 when Czech mineralogist and gemologist...page 62), the centerpiece of this crown was not a ruby, but a tourmaline. The gem in this crown is now...tourmaline gained notice as a gemstone distinct from ruby or zircon. Turamali from Ceylon According to Dana...a gemstone enjoys neither the ancient history of ruby, sapphire or diamond nor the mysticism that surrounds |  | | Catalog/List | | £2.25. 21. CASSITERITE. Elsmore, N.S. Wales, Australia. Specimen A - A very choice, lustrous, deep brownish...2fxl-txlt". 1:3.25. CHRVSOTILE. Dundns, Tasmania; Australia. select, silky, fibrous veinlets running in parallel...CB.OO; DUNDASITE. Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Pale creamy micro crystalised crusts richly encrusting...£4.50. HEULANDITE. Coonabarabran, N.S. Wales, Australia. Lustrous, reddish brown, sharp crystals to 1;-"...Coombing Park Copper Mine, Nr. Carcoar, N.S.Wales, Australia. Rich, deep green, mamillary crust covering dark |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement To The Mineralogical Record, September–October 2020 ... Mineral Collections in Australia Organized by Robert Sielecki Designed by Wendell Wilson with Photography...September–October, 2020 Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September–October...Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian Museum; ex Albert...Gold: Top row from left: • 6 cm, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo |  | | Journal (issue) | | richest gemstone areas in East Africa producing ruby, sapphire, spinel, garnets, tourmaline, chrome diopside...determines the colour that we register (e.g. red in ruby and green in emerald). In alexandrite the balance...(Figure 5f) appears more disturbed and, in the upper part {Figure 5f, zone r), the presence of small...rapid rate. On the other hand, the median and the upper part of the sample have a shorter time to adapt...Be and Si sites of beryl from Torrington, NSW, Australia. N. Jb. Miner. 1981. Conditions for entry of |  | | Journal (issue) | | ? HyS 128 129 131 129 141 144 130 Corundum: ruby, blue sapphire and other colours Verneuil flame...other melt methods. 1885 Ruby (SP) (see Figure 3) 'Ceneva'ASwitzerland?) 1902 Ruby (see Figure 4) AVL Verneuil/Société...Hellerite/France Hoquiam/USA 1903 Ruby (SP) 1907 Blue sapphire Verneuil/Baikovsky/France 1942 Ruby L Merker/Linde/USA...corundum Linde/USA Linde/USA 1960 Ruby discs (SP) FR Charvat/Linde/USA 1965 Ruby H LaBelle/Tyco/USA 1971 Sapphire...colourless tubes, etc. Bijoreve/Seiko/Japan 1983 Ruby, etc. (NC) Union Carbide/USA and others 1990 Pink |  | | Journal (issue) | | varieties of natural corundum, only ruby possesses bright photoluminescence. Ruby, as well as its color, originates...synthetic ruby is of great technical importance, providing a basis for ruby lasers. Natural ruby owes its...with the color of the mineral. Because of this, ruby is parб W o r l d of Stones, N 9/96 ticularly bright...distinction of ruby from glass in jewelry, and natural ruby from synthetic (synthetic ruby luminesces brighter...photoluminescence of ruby simplifies the analysis ofslimes in the search for ruby deposits. For example |  | | Catalog/List | | golden sharp xtls (about 5/16" in siae)oovering upper face of vuggy matrix. 1-£x1x£", £16.00. Felted...AURICHALCITE/HYDROZINCITE. Pino Creek,Northern Territories,Australia. ’Very lustrous.white sparkling coatings of tiny...royal-blue coloured, small bladed crystalsi covering the upper surface of Cuprite/Malachite matrix, plus a little...35. AZURITE. Mt.Oxide Mine,Mt.Isa,Queensland,Australia, Sparkling,royal-blue, bladod to prismatic sharp...00. 62. CALCIAN-SCHORL(Dravite). Yinnietharra,Western Australia. Golden-brown coloured,lustrous surfaced |  | | Journal (issue) | | 100-108.] The dravite crystal bonanza of Yinnietharra, Western Australia [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 109-110.]... without surcharge, to the following people: Australia Piers Foa, Kovac’s G. & M. 291-293 Wattletree...counted among the classical gemstones such as emerald, ruby, sapphire and garnet, but there are clear indications...applied to red tourmaline as well as garnet and ruby; people of the time had no basis for making accurate...Throughout all this time the stone w^is thought to be a ruby, until the well-known Russian mineralogist Alexander |  | | Report (issue) | | OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never...D DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces...88 89 90 90 91 91 91 91 94 C H A P T E R 11 GASCOYNE PROVINCE Geology .......................................................................... Yinnietharra district .................................. |  | | 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...interested in searching for tin deposits in Western Australia. J H Lord 19th June 1978. DIRECTOR iii................. ... ... . . Tin mining in Western Australia ......................................... |  | | Catalog/List | | 25x2x1.5", £3.75 A/9. ALBENDITE. Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland, a small glass phial containing, jet-black...mass with xtls developed in voids and carrying, on upper display surface a very lustrous, translucent, penetrant...ALMANDINE (Xtl). broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. A matrix-free, sharp, elongated, dodecahedral...sharp, adamantine, dodecahedral xtls implanted on upper face. 3x1.5x0.75". £1 5.00 11. ANDRADITE/CHLORITE...Salmon-pink Orthoclase rich pegmatite matrix with upper (3x1.5") display surface covered in small, prismatic |  | | Journal (issue) | | (Corn wall, England) corundum, 2 large incomplete ruby xls (Franklin, N orth Carolina) brucite, large platy...Franklin, North Carolina (cleavable corundum, including ruby and sapphire) (C ontinued on page 97) (C ontinued...specimen showed about a dozen ex tremely brilliant, ruby-red crystals which I took to be highly distorted...satisfied with the sight iden tification of the ruby-red crystals as garnet. The faces on the best one...possibilities among tetragonal minerals which could be ruby-red are anatase and cassiterite. However, the crystals |  | | Book | | emeralds and other beryls; chromium gives the red of ruby and red spinel and the green of emerald and jadeite;...Tirol (Austria), Mursinka (USSR), Mt Flowden (Australia). The best chiastolite comes from Santiago de...(Namibia), and Broken Hill, New South Wales (Australia) also provide good quality crystals. In many occurrences...deposits and cavities in igneous trap rock. Strata in western South Dakota, Carlsbad, New Mexico (USA); zeolites...with native silver and galena and is found in western USA, particularly in the Comstock Lode, Nevada |  | | Journal (issue) | | (1977) The dravite crystal bonanza of Yinnietharra, Western Australia. Mineral.Rec., 8, 2, 109-10. Deer,...materials from glass to corundum and the garnets. The upper range includes quartz, zircon, diamond and the man-made...is a translation of the first major work in a Western language on the topic of jade and forms the second...Such flaws always reach the surface. A natural star ruby (Burmese) had radically altered in colour when heated...charcoal. Synthetic-backed/natural-topped doublets of ruby and sapphire are again being found. Identification |  | | Journal (issue) | | AfBHated Associations: Genunological Association of Australia: Canadian Genunological Association: Rhodesian...effect. Large diamonds were extremely rare in the western world during the 15th and 16th centuries and therefore...gems fall into several categories. Some, such as ruby, emerald, alexandrite, a n d hiddenite, are rare...person to have been the first to discover opal in Australia. R.W. COCKS (F. B.). Photography as an aid to...crystallization, naat, etc. S.P. GLOVER (J. E.). Western Australian emeralds. Australian Gemmologist, 1968 |  | | Book | | Greece 22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...Diamonds from [the Argyle mine,] Kimberley, Western Australia (by J. D. Grice & G. L. Boxer) 21:559-564...Wilson) 19:75 ARNO RNER VALLEY Minerals from the upper Arno River Valley, Tuscany, Italy (by M. Corazza...Secondary minerals from Ashburton Downs, Western Australia [Australia) (by E. H. Nickel & B. J. Gartrell)...Colorado (by J. E Taggart & E. E. Fooro) 11:37-38 AUSTRALIA On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide |  | Dyar, M. Darby, Taylor, Marjorie E., Lutz, Timothy M., Francis, Carl A., Guidotti, Charles V., Wise, Michael (1998) Inclusive chemical characterization of tourmaline; Mossbauer study of Fe valence and site occupancy. American Mineralogist, 83 (7) 848-864 doi:10.2138/am-1998-7-817 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1993) Pierrepont(Griceand Ercit 1993) Yinnietharra, Australia(Griceand Ercit 1993) Hall Farm (Griceand...metamorphic, plutonic, and pegmatitic occturences in western and southern Maine (Table 2). Whenever possible...(Huby 1973) Un (%) - Percentof uncertaintyof fit (Ruby 1973) S.D. : standarddeviation Mossbauer parametersare...criteria for "good fits" based on 1, and Misfit (Ruby 1973). Resultsofprevious workers did not provide...colorsof sillimanite AmericanMineralogist,67, 749'761 Ruby, SL. (1973)Why Misfit when you alreadyhave1,? In |
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