 | | Report (issue) | | MILES, D.Sc. F.C.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O F WESTERN AUSTRALIA, - AND DOROTHY CARROLL, PLD., P.I.C. GOVERNMENT... - WESTERN - AUSTRALIA. P A ~ T M E N TOF MINES. . MINERAL RESOURCES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA BULLETIN... F.G.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O F W E S T E R N AUSTRALIA, AND AND GOVERNMENT CHEMICAL LABORATORIES.... The production of tantalum ores has been one of Western Australia’s contributions to the war effort and...considered a comprehensive reference book f o r the Western Australian 1-esources of tantalnm and niobium. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia SUMMAaY. Holtite, a new mineral allied to...with stibiotantalite and tantalite on an alluvial tin lease near Greenbushes, Western Australia, and...after the late H. E. Holt, Prime Minister of Australia. The mineral is orthorhombic with a tt.9o 5 ,~...Perth, Western Australia. IN I962 , the author re-examined two samples o f alluvial stibiotantalite donated...donated in I937 and I943 f r o m Greenbushes, Western Australia (lat. 35 ~ 50' S., long. I I 6 ~ o' E.) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 458 Simpsonite and stibiotantalite from Benson pegmatite mine, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia. By O. vox KNORRIXG...occurrenceof the tantalum minerals simpsonite and stibiotantalite is described from a lithium pegmatite at Mtoko...new formula is proposed. S IMPSONITE and stibiotantalite, two of the rarer tantalum minerals, are found...a number of pegmatites that comprise the Benson mine at Mtoko, in the north-eastern part of Southern...four pegmatite areas only: Tabba Tabba in Western Australia (Bowley, 1939), Alto do Giz and Onga mines |  | | Report (issue) | | 22 TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J. M. Fetherston TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA FRONTISPIECE:... FRONTISPIECE: Historic pump at the Wodgina tantalum–tin mine. Brought from Port Hedland by camel train about 1905...SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 22 TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J. M. Fetherston...Limerick DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tim Griffin REFERENCE The recommended reference...FETHERSTON, J. M., 2004, Tantalum in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources |  | | Report (issue) | | Stibiotantalite Sb(Ta, Nb)O4 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...Pattern: Synthetic SbTaO4 ; nearly identical to stibiotantalite. 3.121 (100), 3.506 (38), 2.950 (34), 2.687...39.75 Total 100.02 98.9 100.00 (1) Greenbushes, Western Australia. (2) Mesa Grande district, California...pegmatites. Association: Tantalite (Greenbushes, Western Australia); antimony, allemontite, microlite...Distribution: From the Greenbushes tin placers, Wodgina district, Western Australia. Large crystals at the |  | | Report (issue) | | 383(4) Z = 4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Greenbushes, Western Australia. 10.28 (100), 2.94 (40), 5.89 (34)...35 0.45 0.11 0.57 1.13 . 99.71 (1) Greenbushes, Western Australia; B2O3 thought to be low; corresponding...coatings on stibiotantalite and replacing tantalite in a pegmatite (Greenbushes, Western Australia); in pegmatites...Association: Stibiotantalite, tantalite, tourmaline, microlite, quartz (Greenbushes, Western Australia); stibiotantalite...Russia). Distribution: At Bunbury Gully, Greenbushes, Western Australia. From Mount Vasin-Myl’k, Voron'i massif |  | | 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...million and have maintained mining communities at Greenbushes and in various parts of the Pilbara. The present...interested in searching for tin deposits in Western Australia. J H Lord 19th June 1978. DIRECTOR iii |  | | 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...p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst,” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale Mine”; all these |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia W. G. MUMME CSIRO, Division of Mineral Products...Melbourne, Australia AND M. W. PRYCE Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia Abstract... crystal structure, crystal chemistry, Greenbushes, Australia Introduction THE mineral holtite was first...crystals of it were found associated with stibiotantalite and tantalite in specimens from an alluvial...alluvial tin lease near the township of Greenbushes, Western Australia (Pryce, 1971). Since then a second occurrence |  | Pieczka, A., Grew, E. S., Groat, L. A., Evans, R. J. (2011) Holtite and dumortierite from the Szklary Pegmatite, Lower Silesia, Poland. Mineralogical Magazine, 75 (2) 303-315 doi:10.1180/minmag.2011.075.2.303 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals such as columbite-(Mn), tantalite-(Mn), stibiotantalite and stibiocolumbite as the availability of...an alluvial tin deposit near Greenbushes, southwestern Western Australia; Voloshin et al. (1977) found...of the open pits of an abandoned silicate nickel mine, and it is the only such dyke reported in the Szklary...larger aggregates enclosing holtite (Fig. 2). Stibiotantalite has never been found in close proximity to...gave reasonable H2O contents for holtite from Greenbushes and Voron’i Tundry (Groat et al., 2009), these |  | Groat, L. A., Grew, E. S., Evans, R. J., Pieczka, A., Ercit, T. S. (2009) The crystal chemistry of holtite. Mineralogical Magazine, 73 (6) 1033-1050 doi:10.1180/minmag.2009.073.6.1033 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from pegmatite, at three localities: Greenbushes, Western Australia; Voron’i Tundry, Kola Peninsula, Russia;...dumortierite, crystal chemistry, discontinued, Western Australia, Kola Peninsula, Lower Silesia. Introduction...from pegmatite, at three localities: Greenbushes, Western Australia (Pryce, 1971; Hoskins et al., 1989);...of pegmatite, near the township of Greenbushes, Western Australia (Pryce and Chester, 1978). Weissenberg...Voloshin et al. (1987) also found in a sample from Greenbushes. Pieczka and Marszałek (1996) described a third |  | Galliski, M. A., Marquez-Zavalia, M. F., Lira, R., Cempirek, J., Skoda, R. (2012) Mineralogy and Origin of the Dumortierite-Bearing Pegmatites of Virorco, San Luis, Argentina. The Canadian Mineralogist, 50 (4) 873-894 doi:10.3749/canmin.50.4.873 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Stilling et al. (2006); 69.14 and 14.67 wt.% for Greenbushes, Partington et al. (1995)] or abyssal pegmatites...associated. Holtite, originally described from Greenbushes, Australia (Pryce 1971, Hoskins et al. 1989) as approximately...in three localities other than Virorco: Greenbushes, Australia (Pryce 1971), Vasin-Myl’k, Voron’i Tundry...unclear. In the Greenbushes occurrence, holtite, in association with stibiotantalite, tantalite and minor...from small (2-15 mm) pebbles in alluvium of the Greenbushes pegmatite. It is present mainly as intergrown |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Smithsonian Institution Minerals of the Greenbushes T in field ....................................Geological Survey Uralolite from the Dunton Gem Mine, Newry, Maine: A Second O c c u rre n ce .........length, collected in the Mindola open pit, Rokana mine, Zambia, by S. P. Korowski. The Mineralogical Record...under ground miner at the 115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August...presented at his trial, Stokes began sneaking into the mine at night and stealing (“highgrading”) gold. No one |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CAN MINERALOGIST, VOL. 45, MAY_JUNE, 1960 STIBIOTANTALITE FROM THE BROWN DERBY No. I PEGMATITE,COLORADO*...the Brown Derbv group is given in Table 1. Stibiotantalite was found by the writer in 1953in pegmatite...Gahnite Hematite Columbite Microlite Euxenite Stibiotantalite 729 NEWS Quenrz Quartz Microcline-perthite...pink tourmaline as much as 1 cm. across. The stibiotantalite fragmentsare cut by thin veinletsof quartz...(1950). Hamilton (1957), who also reports stibiotantalite from the Brown Derby, likewise notes pink tourmaline |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | heterogeneous with exsolved columbite or ilmenite. Stibiotantalite [SbTaO4] and bismutotantalite [Bi(Ta,Nb)O4]...Canada; 2.64 Ga); Wodgina (Western Australia; 2.9 Ga); Greenbushes (Western Australia, 2.53 Ga); Kolmozero...Austroalpine, Kamativi, Bastar, Back Hills, Greenbushes); complex types with spodumene (#Mn = 60; e.g...Nigeria. Major occurrences are recorded from Greenbushes, Marowgne (Guyana), Finish Lapland, Bastar and...Granites of Nigeria, Damara Belt, Tanco, Wodgina, Greenbushes, Volta Grande, Bastar, Black Hills, Eastern Colombia |  | | Report (issue) | | IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by F? B. Abeysinghe and J. M. Fetherston -m GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA David Blight Copy editor: L. Day The recommended...FETHERSTON, J. M., 1999, Kaolin in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7309 6649 6 Abeysinghe, P. B. Kaolin in Western Australia Bibliography...2. I. II. 111. Kaolin -Western Australia. Kaolin industry - Western Australia. Fetherston, John, 1943- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | columbite-(Mn), tantalite-(Mn), stibiocolumbite, stibiotantalite, an as yet unnamed (As,Sb,U)-rich (Ta,Ti)-oxide...plumbopyrochlore, whereas stibiocolumbite, stibiotantalite, and the (As,Sb,U)-rich (Ta,Ti)-oxide altered...columbite-(Mn), tantalite-(Mn), stibiocolumbite, stibiotantalite, holtite, fersmite, pyrochlore-group minerals...rare minerals as holtite, stibiocolumbite, stibiotantalite, paradocrasite, stibarsen, Mn-rich beusite...of the open pits in an abandoned silicate nickel mine. The pegmatite dike represents the rare earth element |  | Černý, Petr, Chapman, Ron, Ferreira, Karen, Smeds, Sten-Anders (2004) Geochemistry of oxide minerals of Nb, Ta, Sn, and Sb in the Varuträsk granitic pegmatite, Sweden: The case of an “anomalous” columbite-tantalite trend. American Mineralogist, 89 (4) 505-518 doi:10.2138/am-2004-0405 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | compositional features of the host cassiterite. Stibiotantalite shows high values of Ta/(Ta + Nb) and mere...precursors, as does the stibiomicrolite replacing stibiotantalite. Cesium is elevated in several grains of primary...sequences of phosphates, and decomposition of stibiotantalite and pollucite. Although some of the studies...intergrowths, such as the alteration products of stibiotantalite. Successful as the bulk analysis of these intergrowths...accessory quantities and mainly concentrated in the western wing of the outcrop. Several low-temperature hydrothermal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Species studied included columbite-tantalite, stibiotantalite, samarskite,euxenite,allanite, uraninite, fergusonite...pegmatite Hata and Iimori, 1938 Yinnutharra, Australia O96/6lJOz, metamict 0 8670 V O O59ToThOz pegmatite...radioactive. Frc. 3-"Feather" columbite, Globe mine, Petaca, N.M. (X2). MDIOACTIVE 1369 COLUMBITE...uniformly radioactive. Homogeneous in p.s. IIard.ing Mine, Taos Co., New Mer'i.co Ref.: Montgomery, 1950 G...Examples are known of stibiotantalite replacing tantalite (Greenbushes, Australia), microlite replacing |  | | Book | | partial patterns of lanthanite(Ce) from the Britannia Mine, Wales, UK (Bevins et al. 1985) and oflanthanite-(N... Brazil (a) and lanthanide-(Ce) frorn Britannia Mine, UK (b) 16 F. Cesbron 6 REE Minerals and Related...Perforated sheets of cornersharing octahedra Stibiotantalite Zig-zag chains of edge-sharing octahedra (distorted...Liandratite Petsch ecki te Stibiocolumbite Stibiotantalite Bismutotantalite Alumotantite ß- F ergusonite... Mineralogy ofNiobium and Tantalum 45 3.6 Stibiotantalite Group Orthorhornbic rninerals of this group |  | | Journal (issue) | | 3 19 Alabama Alaska Argentine Republic Asia Australia Austria 21 21 N 25 25 26 28 -. Banka 29...Domingo Scotland Siam Siberia South America South Australia South Dakota Spain Swaziland ; 145 146 148...Virginia .186 CONTENTS V PAGE Washington Western Australia 187 Wyoming 190 191 203 209 General Bibliography...Geological Survey of Western Australia, Ann. Progr. Rep. Geol. Surv. Western Australia. Perth. Annual...Geologist-in-charge, Washington, D. C. Bull. Western Australia Geol. Surv Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist California |  | | 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 |  | Melcher, Frank, Graupner, Torsten, Gäbler, Hans-Eike, Sitnikova, Maria, Henjes-Kunst, Friedhelm, Oberthür, Thomas, Gerdes, Axel, Dewaele, Stijn (2015) Tantalum–(niobium–tin) mineralisation in African pegmatites and rare metal granites: Constraints from Ta–Nb oxide mineralogy, geochemistry and U–Pb geochronology. Ore Geology Reviews, 64. 667-719 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.09.003 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1.2. Mineralogy 4.3.2. Kamativi Schist Belt (western Zimbabwe) 4.3.3. Orange River Pegmatite Belt (Namibia...minerals 6.2. Bismutotantalite [Bi(Nb,Ta)O4] and stibiotantalite [Sb(Nb,Ta)O4] 6.3. U-Y-REE-rich Ta-Nb oxides...Küster et al., 2009; Greenbushes and Wodgina D pegmatites, Western Australia, Partington et al., 1995;...heterogeneous with exsolved columbite or ilmenite. Stibiotantalite [SbTaO4] and bismutotantalite [Bi(Ta,Nb)O4]... 3. Methods Concentrate samples from different mine sites in many African countries have been investigated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tracesof W, In and Co. In the Katherine-Darwin (Australia) area, Sn-Mo-W-Ta are locatednear to the contactand...showapicalmineralization.At Wodginaand Spargoville(W. Australia) the ore concentrates on the hangingwall. InternalZonin#...mangantantalite, microlite, thoreoulite and stibiotantalite(12). In important districts,the Nb/Ta ratio...Tshamakain the Congoand in the Pilbarafield, Australia. A few such deposits still existin Ruanda-Urundi(Mayaga...and stibiotantalitein the old alluvia of Greenbushes (Australia). RESOURCES •tge of the Mineralization |
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