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Talc from
Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah-Mt Bischoff, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Talc
Formula:Mg3Si4O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Talc data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah-Mt Bischoff, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:37020
Long-form Identifier:1:3:37020:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Talc
12.4km (7.7 miles) Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
18.8km (11.7 miles) Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
25.9km (16.1 miles) Savage River Mines, Corinna-Savage River district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
29.1km (18.1 miles) Arthur River Magnesite Deposit, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
32.5km (20.2 miles) Main Creek magnesite deposit, Corinna-Savage River district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
33.6km (20.9 miles) Mt Lindsay mine (Parsons Hood), Mt Lindsay mineral field, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
35.2km (21.9 miles) Rocky River mine, Corinna-Savage River district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
49.2km (30.6 miles) Razorback mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
50.4km (31.3 miles) Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
51.1km (31.7 miles) St Dizier mine, Mt Heemskirk mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Corporate Document (Series)
A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill and W. E. Baker...Baker Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources E>...rossi'oilittes PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone (03) 6233 8377 Fax (03) 6233 8338 Email info@mrt...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrttas.gov.au ©Copyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY BISCHOFF TIN No. 3 1922.. OF THE DEPOSITS, MOUNT TASMANIA. J. G. WESTON-DUNN............. Sericite, gilbertite, damourite, (?) talc, pyrophyllite....... Quartz, tin, (?) chl'orite...WESTON-DUNN. INTRODUCTION. The tin depositsof Mount Bischoffoffer an unusualopportunity for geologicalstudy...characterof thesetin deposits. The study of the Mount Bischofftin depositswas undertaken at the suggestion...the presentday the main tin-bearing material at Mount Bischoffis a loose,often incoherentpyritic (marcasitic)deposit
University of Tasmania Open Access Repository Cover sheet Title The cassiterite-sulphide deposits of...of western Tasmania Author Groves, DI Bibliographic citation Groves, DI (1968). The cassiterite-sulphide...cassiterite-sulphide deposits of western Tasmania. University Of Tasmania. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25959/23210630.v1...repository@utas.edu.au Downloaded from University of Tasmania Open Access Repository Please do not remove this...University of Tasmania Open Access Repository Library and Cultural Collections University of Tasmania Private
Report (issue)
CONTENTS. 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. 95...95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject Index...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same district, but it is sometimes difficult or impossible to
Journal (issue)
BOOKREVIEW:Potosi STONES JOHN WHITE'S FACETTED TASMANIA 2020 METAMORPHICROCKSCROSSWORD SMLSFIELDTRIPTO...comprehensive article on the mining and minerals of Tasmania. John Pearce (Editor jppearce@talktalk.net) ...Trump: Order more tariffs to make them mine less. Pence: Mine fewer. Trump: Shhh, don't call me that...day in a quarry? Dry throat after 6 hours down a mine? Bored with yet another day in lockdown? Than try...Sterling Hill Mine, N.J.USA Hoe (near Dover) Smelter (Wanlockhead) Marble or SMLS Wales mine (Cornwall)
Report (issue)
Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY...ENERGY and RESOURCES Mineral Resources Tasmania Tasmania TASMANIA SIMPLIFIED GEOLOGY LAUNCESTON Sm ...orogeny (cf. Tabberabberan Orogeny of mainland Australia). MIDDLE DEVONIAN LATE CAMBRIAN– EARLY DEVONIAN...sequences and/or mainly felsic volcanic (including Mt Read Volcanics) and related intrusive rocks. Tyennan...MESO- to NEOPROTEROZOIC MINERAL RESOURCES TASMANIA Tasmania DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY and
Report (issue)
Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY...ENERGY and RESOURCES Mineral Resources Tasmania Tasmania TASMANIA SIMPLIFIED GEOLOGY LAUNCESTON Sm ...orogeny (cf. Tabberabberan Orogeny of mainland Australia). MIDDLE DEVONIAN LATE CAMBRIAN– EARLY DEVONIAN...sequences and/or mainly felsic volcanic (including Mt Read Volcanics) and related intrusive rocks. Tyennan...MESO- to NEOPROTEROZOIC MINERAL RESOURCES TASMANIA Tasmania DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
activity at the Mount Bischoff Sn-deposit , north-west Tasmania, Australia J.H. WRIGHT, Mt Kersen Mining...Western Australia T.A.P. KWAK, Department of Geology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia 3083 Abstract...a Devonian (360 Ma) tin deposit at Mt Bischoff, north-west Tasmania, formed from the interaction of unusual...degrees by siderite, sulphides and hydrous silicates (talc, serpentine, chlorite, micas). The temperature during...rock-flour and later tourmaline alteration. The Mt Bischoff greisen system is possibly part of a ‘porphyry
Journal (issue)
Africa 19 Alabama Alaska Argentine Republic Asia Australia Austria 21 21 N 25 25 26 28 -. Banka 29...South Australia South Dakota Spain Swaziland ; 145 146 148 148 148 155 158 Sweden Tasmania 160 ... CONTENTS V PAGE II. III. Washington Western Australia 187 Wyoming 190 191 203 209 187 General Bibliography... dikes, or placers of a particular country or district, and in the arrangement of this bibliography the...Geological Survey of Western Australia, ., Julius C. Poggendorff, Leipzig. ern Australia. Perth. Annual Report
Journal (issue)
F. L. Sutherland & G. Webb Minerals of western Tasmania ................................................the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................der Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ...............................................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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the cassiterite-sulfide deposits of western Tasmania John L. Walshe a,*, Scott W. Halley b, John A...Technology, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601. Australia b Renison Goldfields Consolidated, GPO Box 360...4820, Australia c MIM Exploration, Suite 12, 154 Fullarton Rd, Rose Park, Rose Park 506, Australia d Geology...Geology Dept, ANU, ACT 0200, Australia Received 29 May 1995; accepted 23 August 1995 Abstract The cassiterite-sulfide...cassiterite-sulfide deposits of western Tasmania are spatially and temporally related to Devonian granitoids
Journal (issue)
France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony...Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas...Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Benitoite, Gold L.A. County $12 Museum, Himalaya mine $12 (Brazil), Bosch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
551-574 Tin-Bearing Greisensof Mount Bischoff,NorthwesternTasmania,Australia J. H. WRIGHT* AND T. A. P. KWAK...TrobeUniversity,Bundoora,Victoria3083, Australia Abstract The large Mount Bischofftin depositoccurswithin an...assemblages containingphyllosilicates(chlorite, talc, phlogopite,serpentine,phengite),carbonates (magnesite...deposit typesincludethe THE Mount Bischofftin depositin northwesternTasmania,Australia(long 145ø31'16"E, lat...Mining, 44 St. GeorgesTerrace, Perth, Western Australia. quartz,topaz,tourmaline,and fluoritewhichis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A Reexaminationof the Mount BischoffCassiteriteSulfide Skarn, Western Tasmania S.W. H^LLEY*^ND JOHNL...Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200,Australia Abstract The MountBischoff tin depositoccursin...a possiblevolcanogenic exhalativeorigin for the Mount westernTasmania, the otherdeposits beingRenisonBell...Most mineralizationat Mount in westernTasmania hasbeenaccepted by mostworkers Bischoff occurred asreplacement...mineralization alsooccurred withincassiteriteites. At Mount Bischoff fluid flow is considered to have been polymetalhc
Book
Ltd., 207 Queen's Quay West, Toronto 1, Canada AUSTRALIA Pergamon Press (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., 19a Boundary...Boundary Street, Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W. 2011, Australia FRANCE Pergamon Press S A R L , 24 rue des Ecoles...continent or, in the case of Australasia, by Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Papua-New Guinea...the deposits are arranged by prov­ inces, in Australia by states, and in Japan by islands. In India,...Philippines... Turkey 2 1 1 4 1 1 5 1 1 2 2 21 Australia 27 Tasmania 13 New Zealand 2 Bougainville.... 1 Fiji
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New...Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Renison Bell, Western Tasmania D. J. PATTERSON,* GeologyDepartment, Universityof Tasmania,G.P.¸. Box 252C,... Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia H. OHMOTO, Department of Geosciences, The PennsylvaniaState University...GeologyDepartment, Universityof Tasmania,G.P.O. Box252C, Hobart, Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract Cassiteritemineralizationat...DevelopmentDivision.Mount Isa MinesLimited, Mount Isa,Queensland 4825, Australia. $95 ;394 PATTERSON, OHMOTO,...that probablycoveredthe Renisonareaat leastuntil Australia Limited, at a rate of about 4,800 metric tons
Book
Times, Singapore ; and journals in India and Australia—a course was pursued from South Africa through...through Ceylon, India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. In the period mentioned... some of the minor gold and copper fields of Australia, which may be responsible for more valuable contributions...Introduction CHAPTER I Mink Labotjb 1. Census of mine employees.—2. Socialistic Unionism.—3. Premium on...French company.—10. Tronoh mines.— 11. Batu Gajah district.—12. Gopeng hydraulicking.—13. Pioneer dredges
Book
MODELS IN E X P L O R A T I O N GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 .Australia 14. G. BÀRDOSSY KARSTIC BAUXITES 15. АЖ ROSE and...Geology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic. 3083, Australia ELSEVIER Amsterdam - Oxford - New York — Tokyo... hand, and in the U.S.A., Western Europe and Australia on the other. This arises in part from the fact...cassiterite + sulfide + talc or + chlorite assemblages (e.g. Renison, Tas., Australia - Patterson et al.,1981;...cassiterite + ilmenite assemblages (e.g. Mt. Lindsay, Tas., Australia - Kwak,1983). Apart from their economic
Report (issue)
earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...earth-science and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...- - - - - - - - 16 9. Proportions of total world mine production of tin accounted for by countries having...Countries having greater than 2,000 metric tons of tin mine production in any one of the selected years 1940-8
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to D. A. L. t,hc graphite from the Stephanovsky mine. Gold Quartz from the Transvaal. By P. HOLLAND...New South D. A. L. Wales, in Queensland, and i n Tasmania. Genesis of the Plumbiferous Phosphates and Arseniophosphates...has likewise been found in the neighbouring lead mine of Kaltenegg. (2.) Iron, Deweylite f r o m Krau6ach...minerals, there occur wollastonite, epidote, quartz: talc, and calcite. B. H. €3. Beryl from the Ifinger....for aluminium. B. H. B. Tin-ore Deposits of Mount Bischoff. By A . v. GRODDECK (&it, Kryst. Min.,13, 636
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
but much rarer, than fluorite (CaF2). The Clara mine near Oberwolfach (Schwarzwald, Germany) is an extensive...hydrothermal vein-type occurrences of the Schwarzwald ore district. The favored formation of sellaite compared to...pre-altered rocks (i.e., gneiss around the Clara mine altered during prior hydrothermal events) show significantly...hydrothermal vein-type deposits. Keywords: Sellaite, Clara mine, Schwarzwald, hydrothermal vein-type mineralization...hydrothermal fluorite vein system in the Schwarzwald ore district, SW Germany (Maus 1977; Maus et al. 1979; Gerler
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...Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. The study of gemstones has gained many adherents
Book
130 Arab Republic of Egypt 132 Argentina 132 Australia 133 Austria 135 Brazil 135 Bulgaria 155 Canada...Brazil; Ora M.H. Falabella, Brazil; Dr T. Lee, Australia; Sr W. Leite, Brazil; Dr M. Menzies, Canada; Mr...Brazil, Sri Lanka; Jos plateau, Nigeria; Volyn district, Ukraine, and numerous pegmatites throughout the...emperor Vespasian. Pliny died during an eruption of Mount Vesuvius (AD 79), when as Prefect of the Fleet at...silver. Such as are clear and transparent, jewellers mount in a hoop of gold so that both top and bottom may
 
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