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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Topaz
Formula:Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Topaz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:11109
Long-form Identifier:1:3:11109:6
GUID (UUID V4):f39df32a-5798-4c41-8dbb-63abab648cd7
Localities for Topaz in this Region
Slaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Topaz
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘSlaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
12.4km (7.7 miles) ⓘMt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
41.0km (25.5 miles) ⓘRenison Bell Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
46.9km (29.2 miles) ⓘShepherd and Murphy Mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
47.8km (29.7 miles) ⓘMoina Quarry, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
48.0km (29.8 miles) ⓘBell Mount, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
48.1km (29.9 miles) ⓘAll Nations mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
48.2km (29.9 miles) ⓘHenty Mine, Tyndall Valley, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
49.6km (30.8 miles) ⓘSayers mine, Moina - Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania, Australia
49.7km (30.9 miles) ⓘMt Julia deposit, Henty Mine, Tyndall Valley, 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 ŠCopyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved
Book (edition)
Gemstone Minerals in Tasmania Department of State Growth Mineral Resources Tasmania Occurrences of Gemstone...Gemstone Minerals in Tasmania (8th edition 2nd printing) Compiled by R. S. Bottrill and W. L. Matthews...November 2019 Mineral Resources Tasmania PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 www.mrt.tas.gov.au ISBN 0...As a result the Crown in Right of the State of Tasmania and its employees, contractors and agents expressly...sources. These include: Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania by W. F. Petterd, 1910 (a revised edition was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY BISCHOFF TIN No. 3 1922.. OF THE DEPOSITS, MOUNT TASMANIA. J. G. WESTON-DUNN...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..."Geology of Tasmania," •888. a S•. I--I. Wintie, "Stanniferous Deposits of Tasmania, Mount Bischoff," Trans
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. 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 (article/letter/editorial)
Tennessee, Knoxville] at 04:13 19 December 2014 Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado A s virtually...museum and private collections, as do somewhat rarer topaz, garnet, and phenakite specimens. Perhaps America’s...certainly one of its premier aquamarine localities, Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, was highlighted...and other veins. Commonly associated minerals are topaz, beryl, Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor...eastern and central United States. It occurs at the topaz locality at Lord’s Hill, Stoneham, and is reported
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluid activity at the Mount Bischoff Sn-deposit , north-west Tasmania, Australia J.H. WRIGHT, Mt Kersen...Western Australia T.A.P. KWAK, Department of Geology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia 3083 Abstract...Devonian (360 Ma) tin deposit at Mt Bischoff, north-west Tasmania, formed from the interaction of unusual...‘sericite’ muscovite + quartz tourmaline fluorite, topaz + quartz 2 tourmaline ? fluorite, weberite, prosopite...prosopite, ralstonite, Ca-ralstonite; and quartz ? topaz ? fluorite. Where the solutions interacted with
Journal (issue)
3 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 ... .186 CONTENTS V PAGE Washington Western Australia 187 Wyoming 190 191 203 209 General Bibliography... dikes, or placers of a particular country or district, and in the arrangement of this bibliography the...Geological Survey of Western Australia, Ann. Progr. Rep. Geol. Surv. Western Australia. Perth. Annual Report
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...with basement indicated. MINERAL RESOURCES TASMANIA Tasmania DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY and...Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary by D. B. Seymour, G. R. Green and C
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...with basement indicated. MINERAL RESOURCES TASMANIA Tasmania DEPARTMENT of INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY and...Bulletin 72 The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Tasmania: a summary by D. B. Seymour, G. R. Green and C
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 (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
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
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...endogreisen,with higher gradesoccurringnear the topaz + quartz-quartzgreisencontact. Replacementof dolomiteby...greisenminerals, such as mica, topaz, and tourmaline, in endo- and exogreisensare similar. Topaz, quartz, fluorides...cycles. Introduction THE Mount Bischofftin depositin northwesternTasmania,Australia(long 145ø31'16"E, lat
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 (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...tin-bearing fluidsarebelievedto havebeenmagmatic topaz,fluorite,andcassiterite aspseudomorphs of ortho
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
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 Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 4. Industrial...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
South Africa. 24. Belgian Congo. 25. Nigeria. Australia. •6. Stanthorpe, Queensland. 27. Heberton, Queensland...N. S. W. 3o. Mr. Bischoff, Tasmania. 3•. Blue Tier, Tasmania. 32. Heemskirk, Tasmania. x3. Sumatra. ...in Cornwall and Bolivia, and to a lessextent in Tasmania and the Transvaal. As this paper is concernedonly...(Malay States) ................ 54,6oo 55,265 Australia .............................. Banca ...........DISTRICTS OF THE WORLD. 4 3 Principal Intrusive. District. II. Associated Dikes. 6 5 InvadedRocks.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphideproduction hasneverplayeda major economicrole in the district. For manyyearsthe mill headsaveragedhardly more...kilometersof diamonddrilling havebeendonein the district. The geologicinformation gatheredas a result of...publisheddata regarding these features of the district. A. R. GEYNE. PACHUCA,HIDALGO,MEXICO, January...Hills, South Dakota. At Greenbushes,in Western Australia, tin andtantalum(pluscolumbium)are intimatelyassociated...Tantalum and eolumbium: Mineral Resources of Australia, Summary Rept. No. 19, 1945; Min. Res. Survey
Book
A. Jobbins Butterworth-Heinemann Gem Books Topaz m(JTTERWORTH EINEMANN Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd...Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hoover, D. B. Topaz. - (Butterworth-Heinemann Gem Books Series) I. Title...Profile xii 1 Topaz - Historical perspectives 1 Introduction 1 Etymology of topaz 1 Topaz in ancient times...times 3 Topaz in Roman times 8 The Dark Ages 12 The Middle Age~ - topaz changes colour The beginning of...of empiricism 15 13 2 Large and important topaz gems and crystals 20 Introduction 20 Giant uncut crystals
Book
purpose; Mrs Pat Simpson for the coronet of agate and topaz, Bert Scheps, F.G.A.A. for opal and carnelian jewellery...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Western Australia, Western Australia 6009, Australia 2 Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation...Analysis, University of Western Australia , Western Australia 6009, Australia 1 Abstract Quantitative X‑ray...pegmatites such as the Greenbushes deposit, Western Australia (Partington et al. 1995), Sn-Cu-Pb-Zn skarns such...four localities: two crystals are from the Mount Bischoff cassiterite-sulfide skarn (MB1 and MB2), two...and SC2), two from the greisen zone of the Buriti mine (BM1 and BM2), and one is from the White Lode Sn-mineralized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hyacinth, as crystals in chlorite from the Howell District, New England, are also in the Melbourne Museum...Wodgina District in Western Australia This is one of the best garnet districts in Australia and is active...today. It is in the Northwest Division of Western Australia and is roughly a circle with a diameter of forty...years old. Wodgina is the premier tantalum district of Australia. The Australian government is now stockpiling...Perth. The garnet localities are at or hear Abydos, Mount Francisco, Stannum, Tabba Tabba and Wodgina itself
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as arsenopyrite, wolframite-ferberite, apatite, topaz, or scheelite-are actively sought by collectors...Historically, there have been numerous attempts to mine cassiterite within the United States, each ultimately...bismuth locality known as Lane’s mine near the old Trumbull tungsten mine and in crystals up to 1 cm at...most notably at the Ross mine, Gaffney, South Carolina, and the Faires mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland...Cleveland County, and the Jones mine near Bessemer City, Gaston County, North Carolina (Graton 1906). Good specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsof Tasmania M. SOLOMON GeologyDepartrnent,G. P. 0., Box252C, Universityof Tasmania,Hobart, Tasmania7001...Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract The major operatingmetallic ore depositsof Tasmaniaare (a) volcanic-hosted...Geology SINCEthe discoveryof cassiteritenear Mt. Bischoff in 1871 Tasmaniahasbeen an important metal producer...mineral- reconstruction of the land masses around Tasmania just prior to the openingof the TasmanSea in... 1971). Unfortunately the relationshipbetween Tasmania and adjacentpartsof the Tasmanfold belt in earlier
 
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