| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | SCAPOLITIZATION IN THE CLONCURRY DISTRICT OF N O R T H - W E S T E R N Q U E E N S L A N D By A. B. E...north-western Queensland, centring on the Dugald River lead prospects, the old Duchess copper mine, and...an area of more than 50 square miles, while at Duchess they outcrop over more than 30 square miles. They...the volume of acid rocks exposed is small. A t Duchess, and at Trekelano, the granite and syenite rocks...scapolitization in the Cloneurry district of north-western Queensland is, therefore, of considerable interest, the | | | Report (issue) | - 3), AUSTRALIA warps REE % BMR Bulletin spate aeeiemnnnent D. H. Blake Spee 8 gh on TAT ...Geology of the Mount Isa Inlier and environs, Queensland and Northern Territory D. H. BLAKE AUSTRALIAN...Government Publishing Service © Commonwealth of Australia 1987 ISBN 0 644 061774 ISSN 0084-7089 This Bulletin...borehole intersections of Proterozoic rocks in north Queensland ........... 5.26250 e eee ees 6.00 eeee eee eee...of Mineral Resources and Geological Survey of Queensland from 1969 to 1980 resulted in the production | | | Report (chapter) | Geochemistry of Proterozoic volcanics, Mount Isa Inner, Australia I. H. Wilson S U M M A R Y : The Mount Isa Inlier...of Mineral Resources and Geological Survey of Queensland. For most specimens eleven major elements, four...Geological and Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia in the late 1930s preceded the first systematic...Mineral Resources (BMR) and Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ) (Carter et al. 1961). T h e B M R and GSQ...plagioclase phyric, granoblastic quartz10-15 Cloncurry albite; accessory opaques, sphene, pyrite, (30 | | OLIVER, N. H. S., RAWLING, T. J., CARTWRIGHT, I., PEARSON, P. J. (1994) High-Temperature Fluid-Rock Interaction and Scapolitization in an Extension-Related Hydrothermal System, Mary Kathleen, Australia. Journal of Petrology, 35 (6) 1455-1491 doi:10.1093/petrology/35.6.1455 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Extension-Related Hydrothermal System, Mary Kathleen, Australia 1 2 Monash University Department of Earth Sciences...Planetary Sciences, Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia University of Queensland Department of Earth Sciences, St...St. Lucia, Qld. 4072, Australia (Received 26 July 1993; revised typescript accepted 7 February 1994) ABSTRACT...the centre of the Proterozoic Mount Isalnlier, Queensland, an early phase of extension (1760-1730 Ma) resulted...University, P.O. Box U1987, Perth, W.A. 6001, Australia. t Present address: Mount Isa Mines Exploration | | | Book | Comet opal Moonstone Shimmering colour Sunstone Labradorite Orthoclase Microcline Albite Bytownite Lapis...Designers' heyday Dioptase Sugilite Iolite Benitoite Duchess of Windsor’s Cartier flamingo brooch Tourmaline...woven into the fabric of national mythologies. In Australia, opals feature prominently in enchanting creation...contributes a huge amount of the world’s ruby supply; Australia formerly dominated the precious opal market, although...Peridot Egypt Emerald Garnet Diamond Garnet Labradorite Jasper Kunzite Sodalite Moonstone Pearl | | | Book | of Mineralogy, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Herr H. Hofmann and Frau Heidrun Fuchs of the...Thomson's collection, National Museum of Victoria, Australia) and became national treasures, numerous aspects...CLACKMANNANSHIRE 5 KINROSS-SHIRE 8 RENFREWSHIRE 7 WEST LOTHIAN 8 MIDLOTHIAN 9 PEEBLES-SHIRE 10 SELKIRKSHIRE...tours, all the remarkable minerals in Dumfries-shire, the Forest of Selkirk, Tiriotdale, Ayrshire, 18...from thc5e drawers by Lord Gray to Elizabeth, Duchess of Gordon in 1828, Catalogueentriesfor drawer | | | Journal (issue) | Victoria (1997) 19:38 Birch, W.D. (ed.) Zeolites of Australia (1989) 15:38 Bariand, P. & Bariand, N. Minereaux...Patrick 11:17 Gallagher, Mike 16:9 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 12:32 Greenock, Lord 11:4 Greg,...spodumene 16:10 PANSHIR beryl var. emerald 13:67 AUSTRALIA NEW SOUTH WALES Allies Mine, Deepwater molybdenite...TERRITORY Harts Range, Alice Springs quartz 19:28 QUEENSLAND Agate creek, Cobbold Gorge quartz var. agate...Mine quartz 19:24 Duck Creek, Cloncurry beyerite 19:28 Great Australia Mine atacamite 19:24,27 azurite | | | Book | Comet opal Moonstone Shimmering color Sunstone Labradorite Orthoclase Microcline Albite Bytownite Lapis...Designers' heyday Dioptase Sugilite Iolite Benitoite Duchess of Windsor’s Cartier flamingo brooch Tourmaline...contributes a huge amount of the world’s ruby supply; Australia formerly dominated the precious opal market, although...Peridot Egypt Emerald Garnet Diamond Garnet Labradorite Jasper Kunzite Sodalite Moonstone Pearl...Superpit Located in Kalgoorlie in central Western Australia, the Superpit is Australia’s largest open pit | | | Book | cornflowers 8.3 cm (32 inches) A present from the Grand Duchess Marie to her daughter Princess Alexandra zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg...Hohenlohe-Langenburg with a note from the Grand Duchess on paper headed Tsarkoe Selo 18 § firm’s chief...scheme was also followed in an egg acquired by the Duchess of Marlborough on her visit to St Petersburg in... strom. (Private collection, England) 54. The Duchess of Marlborough Egg, The egg is only 7.6 cm (3...1902, acquired in Russia by the American born Duchess, Consuelo Van- 1914. Royal derbilt. 44, The | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mobility in the Eastern Creek Volcanics, Mount Isa, Australia: evidence from laser ablation ICP-MS of iron-titanium...sediment-hosted Mount Isa copper deposit in Queensland, Australia. The volcanic rocks are often cited as the...University, P.O. Box 28E Clayton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia e-mail: Melissa.Gregory@sci.monash.edu.au Fax:...Keywords Eastern Creek Volcanics . Mount Isa . Australia . Copper . Iron–titanium oxide geochemistry ....Introduction The Mount Isa copper deposit, in Queensland, Australia, is one of the world’s largest accumulations | | | Journal (issue) | will note, in the News Items, AFLACA Inform in Australia chose to fold and otter refunds to subscribers...jade in Korea. Australia has genuine nephrite Jade. The people in Cowell, South Australia would be annoyed...is f or our own good you know. THE LEGEND OF lABRADORITE Kingston Streak Plate, via Ottawa Lapsmith Bulletin...and several Pieces of W hite Spar, fr om t he Duchess of Cleveland. Some f ine Pieces of Red Spar, several | | | Journal (issue) | the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ...........................................................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...University of Sydney Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land...minerals and mines in their plans to establish Australia as a new colony in the late 18th century. The | | | Report (volume) | underground workings at the Bonanza mine, June, 1909... Duchess tunnel, Latouche Island..........................Reaction rim of actinolite between oliviue and labradorite, from gabbro on Esther Island; specimen G 293...gabbro rather high in plagioclase feldspar (labradorite) and with a partial ophitic texture. It may be...crystals of augite inclosing prismoid crystals of labradorite. This feldspar is about the same in all the phases...Another phase has in addition to the augite and labradorite a considerable quantity of olivine which is very | | | Journal (issue) | INSIDE BENDS Working an old river course in South Australia WHAT'S ON After the Christmas break things are...finally stakes his claim on 900 square metres of Queensland THE GOLDEN GLITTER OF MR RITTER Armed robbery...oldest suppliers of prospecting equipment in Australia with over 20 years in business and a name you...mineral and fossil collectors, came over from South Australia to Warrnambool for a 'long weekend' of fossicking...visit during fossicking trips to Mannum in South Australia earlier in the year. While holidaying in Warrnambool | | | Report (issue) | little in granularity, with the mainly unoriented labradorite laths averaging about 0-4 x 0-04 mm (0:3 x 0-03...granular (0-1 mm) anhedral augite. In places the labradorite laths radiate from an augite centre, and commonly...contemporaneous crystallization of the pyroxene. Labradorite of later growth forms coarser anhedral plates...amygdales 2:4-8-3; mesostasis 15-4-29-8; groundmass: labradorite 33-6-42-2; clinopyroxene 24-3-33-3; chlorite...feldspar 0-5); groundmass 68-7 (augite 34-3, labradorite 32-9, chlorite 1-5). At Whitley Bay, the dyke | | | Report (issue) | granularity, with the mainly unoriented labradorite laths averaging about 0:4 x 0-04 mm (0:3 x...granular (0-1 mm) anhedral augite. In places the labradorite laths radiate from an augite centre, and commonly...contemporaneous crystallization of the pyroxene. Labradorite of later growth forms coarser anhedral plates...amygdales 2-4-8-3; mesostasis 15-4-29-8; groundmass: labradorite 33-6-42:2; clinopyroxene 24-3-33-3; chlorite...feldspar 0-5); groundmass 68-7 (augite 34-3, labradorite 32-9, chlorite 1-5). At Whitley Bay, the dyke | | | Report (issue) | little in granularity, with the mainly unoriented labradorite laths averaging about 0·4 x 0·04 mm (0·3 x 0·03...granular (0· l mm) anhedral augite. In places the labradorite laths radiate from an augite centre, and commonly...contemporaneous crystallization of the pyroxene. Labradorite of later growth forms coarser anhedral plates...ygdales 2·4-8·3; mesostasis 15·4-29·8; groundmass: labradorite 33·6-42·2; clinopyroxene 24·3-33·3; chlorite...feldspar 0·5); groundmass 68·7 (augite 34·3, labradorite 32·9, chlorite 1·5). At Whitley Bay, the dyke | | | Journal (issue) | (Barbour, 1964), and these are the subject of from Australia. Opal can also form at higher the present study...emerald. R.K.M. BRACE WELL, H., 1989. Gems around Australia, Part 2. Australian Gemmologist, 17, 2, 60-2,...petrified woods, pyrope, serpentine, transparent labradorite, etc., etc., are mentioned. The Bracewells must...Reports are given on Finnish spectrolite; ox-eye labradorite from Malagasy; ornamental wurtzite material;...pearls from Broome, Western Australia; Ramaura synthetic ruby; Oregon labradorite sunstone; two different | | | Journal (issue) | Alfred A. Levinson, and H . Stuart Smith Sunstone Labradorite from the Ponderosa Mine, Oregon Christopher L...diamonds in 1990, t h e Argyle mine in Western Australia (36 million carats), fine gem-quality diamonds...Oregon legislature named the gem variety of labradorite called sunstone as the state gem. Currently,...Extensive study of the Ponderosa mine sunstone labradorite has revealed a number of distinctive characteristics...producing commercial quantities of the gem-quality labradorite feldspar known as sunstone. This gem material | | | Journal (issue) | LIMITED 118 Hayward Avenue, Torrensville South Australia 5031 Telephone: (08) 8238 0888 Facsimile: (08)... NEW DETECTORS SENT FREIGHT-FREE ANYWHERE IN AUSTRALIA. 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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire The Devonshire Mineral Collection | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | to communicate a copy of the resolution to the Duchess of Argyll, coupled with an expression of respectful...muscovite, biotite, glauconite, orthoclase, labradorite, albite, and microcline are found. In the heavy | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 33. T. IS N., R. 79 W.), Blanche mine. ;iiirl Duchess mine: iitacamite. azurite, barite, bornite. chiilc~i~ithitc~...scheelite. The Buttes (T. 18 N., R. 72 W.): labradorite. Tie Siding pegmatites (T. I2 N., R. 72 W. and...iron-copBig Goose claim, Park Co.: See Sunlight copper Duchess mine. Alhany Co.: .Sw New Hnnihler per district | | | Book | Beaconsfield Parade, Middle Park, Melbourne 3206, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1978 First published...in felsites and granophyres from Rhum, Inverness-shire. Geol. Mag. 102, 8-22. (9) Bowen, N. L., 1928. The...glass. Typically they have phenocrysts of zoned labradorite with some of orthopyroxene and augite, lying...ones of plagioclase zoned from bytownite to labradorite. Microlites of andesine, rather scanty orthopyroxene...from the main cone has plagioclase, zoned from labradorite to andesine, prisms of oxyhornblende, flakes | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | of fractionation: the late hornblende of the labradorite-bearinggabbro I The general trend in bulk compositions...W. (1936) Structural and petrologic studies in Duchess County, New York. Part IL Petrology and metamorphism...of the Morar and Knoydart districts of Inverness-shire. Trans Ro1, 5or. Edi,nburgh63, 553-588. Mrvasnrno |
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