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Fly by night mine, Gladstone district, Dorset municipality, Tasmania, Australiai
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Fly by night mineMine
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 40° 58' 7'' South , 148° 0' 48'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal): -40.96874,148.01333
GeoHash:G#: r29qbju5b
Locality type:Mine
KΓΆppen climate type:Cfb : Temperate oceanic climate


An abandoned tin mine, worked as an open cut up into the 1970's.
it is a muscovite-rich greisen developed at the contact of a Devonian granite and hornfelsed Mathinna group metasediments.

Regions containing this locality

Australia Plate

Plate - 0 mineral species & varietal names listed

Lachlan Orogen, Australia

Orogen - 988 mineral species & varietal names listed

Melbourne-Mathinna Zone, Lachlan Orogen, Australia

Zone (Tectonic) - 345 mineral species & varietal names listed

Bass Basin, Australia

Basin - 8 mineral species & varietal names listed

Durroon Sub-basin, Bass Basin, Australia

Basin - 8 mineral species & varietal names listed

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Standard Detailed Strunz Dana Chemical Elements

Mineral List


3 valid minerals.

Detailed Mineral List:

β“˜ Cassiterite
Formula: SnO2
Reference: Bottrill, R.S. & Baker, W.E. (2008) A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania. Bull. 73. Tasmanian Geological Survey
β“˜ Muscovite
Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Reference: Bottrill, R.S. & Baker, W.E. (2008) A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania. Bull. 73. Tasmanian Geological Survey
β“˜ Quartz
Formula: SiO2
Reference: Bottrill, R.S. & Baker, W.E. (2008) A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania. Bull. 73. Tasmanian Geological Survey

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
β“˜'Cassiterite'4.DB.05SnO2
β“˜'Quartz'4.DA.05SiO2
Group 9 - Silicates
β“˜'Muscovite'9.EC.15KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2

List of minerals arranged by Dana 8th Edition classification

Group 4 - SIMPLE OXIDES
AX2
β“˜Cassiterite4.4.1.5SnO2
Group 71 - PHYLLOSILICATES Sheets of Six-Membered Rings
Sheets of 6-membered rings with 2:1 layers
β“˜Muscovite71.2.2a.1KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Group 75 - TECTOSILICATES Si Tetrahedral Frameworks
Si Tetrahedral Frameworks - SiO2 with [4] coordinated Si
β“˜Quartz75.1.3.1SiO2

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
Hβ“˜ MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
OOxygen
Oβ“˜ CassiteriteSnO2
Oβ“˜ MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Oβ“˜ QuartzSiO2
AlAluminium
Alβ“˜ MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
SiSilicon
Siβ“˜ MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Siβ“˜ QuartzSiO2
KPotassium
Kβ“˜ MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
SnTin
Snβ“˜ CassiteriteSnO2

Regional Geology

This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.

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Late Devonian - Middle Devonian
358.9 - 393.3 Ma



ID: 701743
Poimena Granite

Age: Devonian (358.9 - 393.3 Ma)

Stratigraphic Name: Poimena Granite

Description: Felsic, I-type, unfractionated biotite monzogranite; commonly contains minor muscovite

Comments: igneous felsic intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions

Lithology: Igneous felsic intrusive

Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5]

Devonian
358.9 - 419.2 Ma



ID: 3192206
Paleozoic intrusive rocks

Age: Devonian (358.9 - 419.2 Ma)

Lithology: Intrusive igneous rocks

Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154]

Data and map coding provided by Macrostrat.org, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Bottrill, R.S. & Baker, W.E. (2008) A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania. Bull. 73. Tasmanian Geological Survey


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