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⇱ Chromite from Bald Hill osmiridium field, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia


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Chromite from
Bald Hill osmiridium field, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia

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Classification
Species:Chromite
Formula:Fe2+Cr23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chromite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bald Hill osmiridium field, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:427475
Long-form Identifier:1:3:427475:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Chromite in this Region
Caudrys prospect, Bald Hill osmiridium field, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Heazlewood River, Bald Hill osmiridium field, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Chromite
2.0km (1.2 miles) Heazlewood River, Bald Hill osmiridium field, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
4.9km (3.0 miles) Caudrys prospect, Bald Hill osmiridium field, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
9.6km (6.0 miles) Savage River Mines, Corinna-Savage River district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
10.0km (6.2 miles) Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
16.3km (10.1 miles) Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah-Mt Bischoff, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
30.6km (19.0 miles) Kays diggings, Hellyer River, Arthur River district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
32.6km (20.3 miles) Wilson River mineral field, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
42.4km (26.4 miles) Tunnel Hill Quarry, Serpentine Hill, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
45.1km (28.1 miles) Nevada Creek, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
47.7km (29.6 miles) West Comet Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...alloys from boninitic magmas: Evidence from western Tasmania a b David C. Peck , Reid R. Keays & Ramsey J...Vic., 3052, Australia c Formerly of the Department of Geology , University of Tasmania , GPO Box 252C...252C, Hobart, Tas., 7001, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007. To cite this article: David C. Peck...alloys from boninitic magmas: Evidence from western Tasmania, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International
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Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL OF MINES SURVEY BULLETIN No. 32 Osmiridium In Tasmania BY A. MclNTOSH REID , Assistant Government...~f... ~~.m.i.~i~~~~. ~~~ .. ~~~ ...A~~~~ted Osmiridium ............ ...... ......... " . Platinum ....Diamond ............... ......... ... .. ... . Chromite ........ .......... .. •...... .. ...... . Picotite... 40 1. The lh-;tribution of the Del}Olo;i Heazlewood nndLonp; Plain n" Previous Literature .Ristorjelll...GeoJoJ!.Y Sedimentary RO('k" [gneous ROCks Iktl d Hill ."-ren . . . . C'Hlldn"" P"ospeC't. ~PCtlon 62.")}
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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 new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining field, and to assign names...north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same district, but it is sometimes difficult or impossible to
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Report (issue)
••• •'• . 33 ••• ••• • Commonwealth of .Australia: New South Wales Victoria ••• ••• • •• •••...Queensland •• • ••• •• • ...•. • •• ••• ••• 35 Tasmania ••• ••• • •• ••• •• • ••• ••• 36 Papua...ind11strial application, althougl1 the natural alloy osmiridium is of considerable value for its iridium-content...platinum metals are gene1·ally associated with chromite. The platinum metals, however, are obtained almost...placer deposits, in which, excepting the osmiridium fields of Tasmania and Papua, platinum is found in quantities
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Report (edition)
British G1-1iana • • •• India .. • • • • • • Australia .. • • • • Papua .. • • • • • • New Guinea • •...quantities were produced in U.S.A., Canada and Australia. In 1934, howe,rer, Canada for the first time...as in the alluvial gold workings of the Choco district, it was usually thrown away as worthless, although...been found in recent years in the Rustenbu1·g district of 8011th Africa. Next in economic importance...approximately as follows~ platinum, 60 to 90; osmiridium, 11p to 27; iridium, up to 7; 1·hodiu1n, up to
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Complex, Tasmania R. Varne 1 and A.V. Brown 2 Department of Geology, The University of Tasmania, Box 252C...Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 2 Geological Survey of Tasmania, Box 124B, G.P.O., Hobart, Tasmania 7001...7001, Australia Abstract. The Adamsfield Ultramafic Complex is one of a dozen Tasmanian ultramafic-mafic...so Cambrian ultramafic and mafic complexes of Tasmania were emptaced, early in the development of the...Cambrian Dundas Trough and its extensions in western Tasmania (Fig. 1), where they are fault-bounded within
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Report (issue)
Western Australia. ^B.H.P. Minerals, Perth, Western Australia. ^Geological Survey of Tasmania, Hobart...Western Australia Mineral Resource Bulletin 14, "Nickel Mineralization in Western Australia," by R. J...articles are contained in University of Western Australia Geology Department and Extension Service Publication...Western Australia," edited by D. I. Groves and C. M. Lesher for IGCP project 91 and 161 field conferences...contributions of Mark Barley, University of Western Australia; D. Russel Hudson; A. L. Jaques; Charter Mathison;
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Report (issue)
___________________________________ _ Sudbury district _______________________ ~ Discovery and present...lacers-------------------------------Tulameen district __________________ _ Other placers ______________________...ores ____________ _ Placers of the Witwatersrand district __ History and production _____________ _ General...---------------N oril'sk district ____________ -----_---- _____ _ Petsamo district ___________________________...___ ----------------------Australia-------------------------------------Tasmania---------------------------------New
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Report (issue)
Production 32 of Salt Consumptionof Salt in Australia . . .. Market Prices of Salt and of Salt By-products...lakes in the Western District and in the Mallee country. In Western Australia salt deposits are formed...near Esperance are other localities. , In South Australia large deposits of salt occur a.t Lake Fowler and...Barkly Tableland, Downs but salt lakes in the district are unknown. Amongst Other Countries the United...upto the presentno depositshave been recordedin Australia exceptthoseformed as supercial deposits in dry
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Book (edition)
herein). Notices Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience...techniques. However, is important to remember that the field of view under the microscope only constitutes a...precursor (see photo below). Right: Intercumulus chromite grain (medium grey) displaying embayments that...that are typical for the partial resorption of a chromite in disequilibrium with the surrounding ultramafic...to the developing crystal. Thus, oxides such as chromite, ilmenite, and magnetite plus PGE alloys separate
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Book (edition)
coal field, showing folding and faulting characteristic of southern end of Appalachian coal field 7....Pennsylvania anthracite field 8. Sections in Pennsylvania anthracite field 9. Coal breaker in Pennsylvania...Richlands, 18 29 30 30 31 southwest Virginia coal field 11. General structure section of the Richmond basin...River 12. Section across Eastern Interior coal field 13. Shaft house and tipple, bituminous coal mine... Generalized section of Northern Interior coal field 15. Composite section showing structure of Lower
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Journal (issue)
Platinum and Allied Metals in 1916. By JAMES M. HILL Advance Report of the United Survey States Geological...have been intruded by basic dikes ranging from chromite to olivine These rocks have been altered to serpengabbro...gravels which are formed from these rocks olivine, chromite, and platinum are found old. ij of 10 samples...native osmium-ruthenium alloys srem the Borneo field have recently been published. BRAZIL, Platinum,...Minas Little has been heard of late years of district no platinum or these deposits, and apparently
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Book (volume)
SURVEY. Professional Paper No. 116. 4. 1920. Oil Field, California. Part I. . Made English by J. P. [i...HARRIE) A Catalogue of the Birds me* ^th m ne district of Church Stretton. See CAMP* BELL-HYSLOP (C... Paige (SIDNEY) Copper Deposits of the Tyrone district, New Mexico, pp. [ii] 53 4 pis., 6 maps (1 geol...Flora of Switzerland for the use of Tourists and Field-Botanists . . . Translated from the fifth edition...Phosphate fields, Montana. The Dunkleberg mining district, Granite County, Montana. See UNITED STATES OF
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