| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Department of Mineralogy, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, and School of...University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, South Australia, Australia Abstract The composition and microstructure...saurian bones (Plesiosaur) from Andamooka, South Australia, have been analyzed and compared to saurian...the same geological formation, north of Coober Pedy, South Australia. Powder X-ray-diffraction analyses...individual osteons (scale of around 100 mm), but the central canals and the boundary area have been enlarged | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 133 An isotopic study of surficial alunite in Australia 2. Potassium-argon MICHAEL I. BIRD, ALLAN geochronology...MCDOUGALL University, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601 (Australia) (Received June 28,1989; revised and accepted...(Isot. Geosci. Sect.), 80: 133-145. alunite in Australia, 2. Potassium- The potential for dating weathering...weathering and diagenetic events in Australia by the K/Ar dating of alunite-group minerals is assessed....62 Ma. K/Ar dating of an alunite sample from a central Western Australian laterite profile has provided | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...for these opals are feldspars, now altered to kaolinite, sourced as volcaniclastic sediment from the Cretaceous...Gondwana. The alteration of detrital feldspars to kaolinite and their replacement by void-filling opal confirms...opal mined in Australia is sedimentary opal-A (Smallwood et al., 2008) with Australia supplying over...Quilpie Mintabie Lightning Ridge Coober Pedy Great Artesian Basin S Australia 50 30oS GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Cretaceous Griman Creek Formation, Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Specimen is approximately 15 cm long. Museum...Opal pseudomorph after gastropod from Coober Pedy, South Australia. Specimen is 1.5 × 1.5 cm. Frank Coffa...black opal from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. D. Barnes, New South Wales Mineral Resources, photo. Australian...Gem Resources Australia Pty. Ltd. PO Box 300 Ourimbah, New South Wales 2258 Australia specover@bigpond...with New South Wales producing “black opal” from the Lightning Ridge opal fields, South Australia producing | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Geosciences , The University of Sydney , NSW , 2006 , Australia Published online: 30 Apr 2013. To cite this article:...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 60:2, 217-229, DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2012.754793...Geosciences, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Australia produces over 90% of the world’s precious...fields particularly in the vicinity of Coober Pedy in South Australia and in the northern and southern sectors | | | Book (edition) | cover is a spectacular opal find from Mintabie, Australia, photographed by the author. The back cover pictures...guess I will just have to keep going back to Australia again and again! The stories contained in this...times. We have traveled back and forth across Australia many times. It is less confusing for you if I...History of Opal in South Australia 31 35 To Find Opal 37 6. A Trip to Coober Pedy 47 Ts Mining...Mining in Coober Pedy 55 8. It’s Mintabie, Mate! 71 9.. Mining in Mintabie 77 10. An Opal Buying Trip | | | Journal (issue) | Ridge. (Photo and stone courtesy of Cody Opal Australia) Industry News A Look At What’s Making News...Crystal Fire: Gem Opal Deposits in the Heart of Australia Water in Opal -- What Can It Tell Us? The Australian... USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, France, UK and Australia. ICA participation was strong with five Board...Padparascha, fire opal from Mexico, some opals from Australia, and orangey garnets, among others, are already...InColor Winter 2019 Vice Presidents Damien Cody, Australia Nirmal Kumar Bardiya, India Treasurer Marcelo | | | Report (issue) | taken from the Library NN GU 1900 TP CATALOGUE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIAN MINERALS: 1983 by R.J. Noble...Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue of South Australian minerals...(Robert John), 1946—supiic LIBRARY Catalogue of South Australian minerals: 1983. Bibliography. ISBN 0...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Allan Pring 2,4 South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; neville.curtis@flinders...University, Sturt Rd, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia; jason.gascooke@flinders.edu.au (J.R.G.); allan...University, Sturt Rd, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia Department of Geology, School of Physical Sciences...Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Correspondence: martin.johnston@flinders.edu.au;...seam opal-AG samples from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales and are identified by physical appearance | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | A. An isotopic study of surficial alunite in Australia: 1. Hydrogen and sulphur isotopes MICHAEL I. BIRD...Canberra, ACT 2601,Australia %.S.I.R.O., Division of Exploration Geoscience, P.O. Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 2...2 113, Australia ‘D~a~ment of Geology, The Australian National Unive~ity, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 260...260 1,Australia (Received June 20, 1988; accepted fplrevised form September 20, 1989) Abstract-A suite...minerals from a variety of surficial environments in Australia has been analysed for 6D and 634S.The 6D values | | | Report (issue) | 725–16.905 Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Koenabib, South Africa. 2.96 (100), 4.90 (70), 2.98 (70), 2.22 (40)...authigenic sedimentary mineral. Association: Alunite, kaolinite, halloysite, sillimanite, quartz. Distribution:...Kalgoorlie and Kanowna, Western Australia; from Coober Pedy, South Australia. On Ruapahu volcano and Mount...quarry, Koenabib, west of Pofadder, Cape Province, South Africa. Name: As the sodium, natrium, analog of...Natroalunite from Koenabib, Pofadder district, South Africa. South African J. Geol., 92(1), 20–28. All rights | | REVELROLLAND, M, DEDECKKER, P, DELMONTE, B, HESSE, P, MAGEE, J, BASILEDOELSCH, I, GROUSSET, F, BOSCH, D (2006) Eastern Australia: A possible source of dust in East Antarctica interglacial ice. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 249 (1) 1-13 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.06.028 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 1 – 13 www.elsevier.com/locate/epsl Eastern Australia: A possible source of dust in East Antarctica...Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e del Territorio...Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia f CEREGE Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS/IRD UR161...new data show that the dust contribution from Australia could have been dominant during interglacial periods...During glacial times, studies have shown that the South American dust isotopic signature overlaps the glacial | | | Book | MINERALS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA by J. E. Johnson and J. M. Scrymgour * i *• 1 £• ? -ts-7. mm? m ty... ■- y Extract from “South Australian Year Book 1975“ Minerals of South Australia Contributed by J. E...and J. M. Scrymgour, South Australian Museum The mineral potential of South Australia was recognised from...his services as a geologist to the newly-formed South Australian Company in May 1836 and was appointed...though probably the first authentic discovery in Australia was made in 1846 at the Victoria Mine, near Castambul | | | Catalog/List | AURICHALCITE Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. Tufts of sky blue acicular xls. with hydrozincite...BROCHANTITE Hatches Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. Emerald green xlsed. with chrysocolla on quartz...h:2 7 /-, 2x2 12/6d., 2:z:3 20/-, 3x4 35/-. KAOLINITE St. Stephens, Cornwall. Xls. pseudomorphous after...15/-. OPAL Variety: PRECIOUS OPAL Coober Pedy, South Australia. Translucent white massive showing play...17/6d. ROSASITE Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. coatings on matrix. lxl 5/-, h:2 10/-. h: 1 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072 Australia ren.zhe@uq.net.au; paulo@earth.uq.edu.au Phone:...microcrystalline supergene alunite aggregates from Coober Pedy, South Australia. Prior to diffusivity studies, all alunite...alunite Coober Pedy (CP) alunite Newberry (2005) conducted a regional geochronology study in South Australia...Australia, when alunites from Coober Pedy and Andamooka were investigated and dated by laser-heating 40Ar/39Ar...2005). Previous 40Ar/39Ar results for the Coober Pedy samples, both by laser (Newberry, 2005) and | | | Journal (issue) | Treasurer 8810 37th s.w., Seattle. WA 98126 Don SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES Offlc:era Bill...Correspondenc:e and requests for Information to the South Central Federation should be addressed to: Mrs. Mignon...jewelry style by Carol Gunther FEATURES 8 COO BER PEDY TODAY A visit to the opal mines by Lee Cross 15...Mrs. Peg Norton, Preslden1 11945 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91607 Lee Hollinshead, First Vice-President...Scarratt, F.G.A. 45 OURCOVER The opals of Coober Pedy 54 64 CFMS DIRECTORS MEETING THE AUSTRALIAN | | | 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...Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian Museum; ex...Top row from left: • 6 cm, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. • | | | Book | John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, 33 Park Road, Milton, Queensland 4064, Australia John Wiley & Sons...and that the majority of our work has been in Australia. We had the view that perhaps our experience being...traditional Northern Hemisphere ideas and concepts. In Australia our geological and geomorphological science has...challenged as research has led to new understandings. Australia, while not unique, is a continent that experienced...book may show and hope that the work sourced in Australia will serve to open others’ minds as they pursue | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Partners, 96 Hermitage Road, West Ryde, NSW 2114, Australia. Northern Territory Department of Transport and... Palmerston, NT 0831, Australia. 3 20 Calvert Street, Tiwi, NT 0810, Australia. 2 Porcellanite is a...area and is well exposed in coastal cliffs to the north. Its distinctive geotechnical properties include...Territory, porcellanite, silcrete. INTRODUCTION The central business district of Darwin, Northern Territory...metasediments. The sequence gradually dips towards the north and is well exposed in the coastal cliffs. The distribution | | | Book (edition) | Periwinkle Books an imprint of Paul Hamlyn Pty Ltd 176 South Creek Road, Dee Why West 2099 Reprinted 1978 © John...Sydney Printed in Hong Kong National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7018 06613 All rights reserved...and plate 10 (left above) by courtesy of the New South Wales Government Tourist Bureau. CONTENTS 1 ...the School of Geology at the University of New South Wales, for the very interesting course in geology...cliff and mountain peak. The island continent of Australia is rich in varied natural scenery. The sandstone | | | Journal (issue) | West, F.G.A. Norlh-West Branch: S. Hill, F.G.A. South Yorkshire & Dislrict Branch: J. I. Reynolds, F.G...of limonite after hornblende are inclusions of kaolinite, a clay mineral, in this Mexican opal. Oblique...through the intergrowth of hornblende-fragments and kaolinite-platelets with some rhyolite-matrix. Darkfield...of rock-crystal protrude from a crude mass of kaolinite in a Mexican blue opal. Darkfield. 50x. Fig....cat's-eye cat's-eye possibly possibly from from South South Africa, Africa, 17.03 ct. Fig. © © Copyright | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | dickite or both, i28. Amblygonite, France, Maine, New South Wales, Saxony, anal., cell-dimensions, distinction...Zealand, anal., opt., X-ray, 453. Andamooka, South Australia, opal, 357. Andradite, chromian hydro-, Tasmania...mines, Rhodesia, montebrasite, 414. Bimbowrie, South Australia, cobaltite, 26. BINNS (R. A.), Oldhamite from...xliii. Black Hill, South Australia, orthoclase, anal., d2o T, 489. Black Hills, South Dakota, montebrasite... trace elements (Cd, Cu, Ga, Ge, Mn), 153; New South Wales, strained, grain-growth in, 852. Bokkos, Jos | | McArthur, J.M., Turner, J.V., Lyons, W.B., Osborn, A.O., Thirlwall, M.F. (1991) Hydrochemistry on the yilgarn block, western Australia: Ferrolysis and mineralisation in acidic brines. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 55 (5) 1273-1288 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(91)90306-p | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Hydrochemistry on the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia: Ferrolysis and mineralisation in acidic brines...Resources, CSIRO, Private Bag, PO Wembley, W.A. 6014, Australia ‘Hydrogeotogy Program, MacKay School of Mines...Abstract-In the southeastern part of Western Australia internal drainage and a semi-arid climate have...soils. The acidity causes the dissolution of kaolinite, which is abundant in playa sediments and as a...regolith. at Pidinga, South Australia, one small playa alone (Lake C, at the north end of Pidinga Lake) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | in, 801. Age determinations: monazite, sphene, South-west Africa, 519; charnockites, Andhra Pradesh,...Almandine, Israel, anal., opt., cell-size, 385; New South Wales, anal., opt., X-ray, 561; Rajasthan, India...46; classification of, lxv, 945. Andamoolca, South Australia, opal, 429. Andalusite, pseudomorphs of kyanite... Auburn, Maine, peristerite, 165. Bakersville, North Carolina, peristerite, 165. BALASUB:aAHI~:ANYAN(M...ternperature, formation of secondary minerals, 408; New South Wales, anal. of glass in, 847. BASDEN (I~.), see | | | Journal (issue) | PHONE ( 213) 255-1488 Inc. DEPT.109 □ 900 SOUTH ARROYO PARKWAY □ PASADENA, r.ALIFORNIA 91109 ...Peggy Norton, Secretary 11945 Magnolia Blv_d., North Hollywood, Ca. 91607 WIiiiam Tlr~. 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